Posts Tagged ‘further reading’

  1. Find out more about about the history behind Liberty’s Fire

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    March 2, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    ‘What is the Commune, that sphinx so tantalizing to the bourgeois mind?’ (Marx:The Civil War in France) Simply put, the …
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  2. That Burning Summer: links and background resources

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    March 1, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    Interested in exploring any of the history, ideas or places in That Burning Summer?  Here are some good starting points –



“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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