“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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Sources for MR PEACOCK'S POSSESSIONS
MPP: Q & A on The History Girls
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L'sF: Find out more about the history behind Liberty's Fire
L'sF: Meet the women of the Paris Commune
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L'sF: Interview about writing Liberty's Fire with Rebecca Mascull
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TBS: Polish pilots in WW2
TBS: Fear of Flying
TBS: The Battle of Britain from below
TBS: Romney Marsh in poetry and fiction
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TBS: Inspirational 40s films
AWBU: How to find out more about the Spanish Civil War
AWBU: Homage to Catalonia
AWBU: Spanish Civil War music
AWBU: The Army of Africa
AWBU: Black Americans in Spain
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21 March 2019: MR PEACOCK'S POSSESSIONS published in paperback
16 March 2019:King's Lynn Fiction Festival
19 October 2018:TAL Festival, Thame, Oxfordshire, with Anna Mazzola
2 August 2018:BBC Radio 4 Open Book 'Islands in Fiction' special
14 July 2018: Beacon Lit Festival - NEW VOICES
4 July 2018: Penzance Literary Festival
14 June 2018: Reading and Q & A at Review Bookshop, Peckham
17 May 2018: PUBLICATION DAY FOR MR PEACOCK'S POSSESSIONS
3 May 2018: Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice
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Maybe I’ll be the first to comment! I found your site when following up the recent day school on George Orwell in Manchester and really liked what I read. And Pablo Neruda too – that was the clincher.
Best wishes
David
Welcome, and thank you!
Lydia