‘Bookings’ Category

  1. 7th December 2013: No Pasaran! A Night to Remember

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    September 9, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    The British Battalion of the International Brigades arrived home 75 years ago, to be greeted by huge crowds at Victoria …
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  2. 13th October 2013: Wood Green Literary Festival

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    September 9, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    Step back in time with me and Catherine Johnson, fellow-Londoner and award-winning children’s author.  We’ll talking about writing and researching historical London, …
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  3. 4th October 2013: ‘That Burning Summer’ launch party

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    September 9, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    Come and celebrate at Review Bookshop, Peckham, 7-9 pm…but do let me or Evie Wyld know that you’re planning to …
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  4. 3rd October 2013 Publication Day: That Burning Summer

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    September 7, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    A red letter day for me, obviously. Order your copy now!


  5. 20th-25th September 2013: Battle of Ebro 75th anniversary commemorations in Spain

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    September 5, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    The last section of A World Between Us is set during the opening stages of the Battle of the Ebro, the longest …
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  6. 2nd-3rd September 2013: Politeness & Prurience Conference, Edinburgh

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    May 6, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    I’ll be giving a paper called ‘Dr Graham’s ocular turn: a look at the origins of the Celestial Bed’


  7. 11th July 2013 Branford Boase Award Ceremony

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    April 5, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    ‘The BBA was set up to reward the most promising new writers and their editors, as well as to reward …
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  8. 6th July 2013 IBMT Annual Commemoration

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    April 4, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    Meet at 12.30 pm at the International Brigade Memorial at Jubilee Gardens, near the London Eye…


  9. 27th June 2013 WeRead Prize Day

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    March 5, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    I’ll be taking part in a day of readings, discussion and voting at UCS School in North London will decide …
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  10. 13th-15th June Shoutabout! Festival at South Bank University

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    March 4, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    A celebration of story-making for children and young people in South London, organised by authors and illustrators. This is a CWISL …
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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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