Posts Tagged ‘WW2’

  1. Spyfever drama workshop

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    March 23, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    1940. The Battle of Britain is raging in the sky above. Germany could invade any day. It is impossible to …
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  2. Stiff Upper Lips

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    October 28, 2014 by Lydia Syson

    A few days ago, a new opera called Shell Shock premiered in Brussels, just one of the huge number of commemorative …
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  3. Writing competition results

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    May 2, 2014 by Lydia Syson

    Last month I wrote about a high-tech school visit I’d made to Sydenham School in South London. Today I’m delighted …
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  4. Ravilious

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    January 14, 2014 by Lydia Syson

    HMS Ark Royal in Action© IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 284)

    Ravilious in Pictures: The War Paintings by James Russell (The Mainstone Press) – one of the most thoughtful and appropriate Christmas …
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  5. The Next Big Thing

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    December 5, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    Yes, yes, I know writers are meant to be a lonely lot, isolated in far-flung garrets of angst-ridden creativity. Actually, …
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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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