‘News’ Category

  1. WELCOME

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    May 18, 2023 by Lydia Syson

    … you’ve reached the website of Lydia Syson, writer, educator and Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellow. Photograph by Gianluca De Girolamo, Adshot, …
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  2. Article: Breaking into the middle of the story. . .

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    May 17, 2023 by Lydia Syson

    I was delighted to read Paloma Fresno-Calleja’s very perceptive analysis of Mr Peacock’s Possessions in the journal Critique: Studies in …
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  3. Writers’ Rights and Human Rights

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    July 16, 2018 by Lydia Syson

    Here’s a link to a piece I’ve written for the Historical Writers’ Association excellent online magazine, Historia about tackling slavery in fiction, …
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  4. Reports from Raoul – 30.2622° S 178.5948° E

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    June 14, 2018 by Lydia Syson

    I’ve been spending the week going through my notes and listening to sound recordings made on the HMNZS Canterbury in …
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  5. Heading towards publication day. . .

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    May 3, 2018 by Lydia Syson

    As I write this in London, the Kermadecs – the chain of volcanic islands in the Pacific where Mr Peacock’s Possessions …
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  6. 2018 news

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    February 24, 2018 by Lydia Syson

    A book cover, an expedition, a story.


  7. Authors for Grenfell Tower auction

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    June 23, 2017 by Lydia Syson

    Raise money for residents affected by the Grenfell Towers fire through the Red Cross London Fire Relief Fund and get …
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  8. World Book Week writing competition results. . . and other news

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    June 6, 2017 by Lydia Syson

    Authors aren’t just for World Book Day, and the positive effects of an author visiting a school continue to have …
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  9. US publication

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    January 31, 2017 by Lydia Syson

    The new Sky Pony edition of That Burning Summer will be on the shelves of American bookshops from today, in beautiful hardback, …
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  10. Poems inspired by GUERNICA, 1937

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    December 14, 2016 by Lydia Syson

    A report earlier this year concluded that the number of civilians around the world killed by explosive weapons had risen …
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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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