Posts Tagged ‘The History Girls’

  1. Gingerbread Pigs

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    December 13, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    My kitchen is heady with the scent of cloves and ginger and muscavado and cinnamon.  The biscuity part of our …
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  2. In the footsteps of Communards

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    July 6, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    What happened to the revolutionaries who managed to escape Paris after the bloody fall of the Commune? Over three thousand …
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  3. Bees not fleas

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    February 24, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    Fellow YA author Helen Grant and I struck up conversation on Twitter at the weekend after reading a couple of …
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  4. Summer news – updated

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    August 1, 2014 by Lydia Syson

    This is a bits-and-pieces, catch-up kind of a post, mostly to express my gratitude to lots of different people who’ve …
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  5. Competition: The History Girls

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    November 30, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    This week there’s a chance to win a copy of That Burning Summer thanks to the The History Girls – if you already …
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“A mesmerising portrait of a family unravelling” THE TIMES (Best historical fiction in 2018)

“Powerful, intense and beautiful” HISTORICAL NOVEL REVIEW

“This tense, evocative, richly-imagined novel conjures the voices of a strange time and place, and makes them universal” EMMA DARWIN

“Syson brings history alive” THE OBSERVER

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