Posts Tagged ‘Lydia Syson’

  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. Bookings & Events

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    May 24, 2018 by Lydia Syson

    Please contact lydiasyson@gmail.com to discuss bookings of any kind. You’ll find more about her work in universities as a Royal …
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  3. Mr Peacock’s Possessions: sources and background reading

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    May 4, 2018 by Lydia Syson

    As noted in the book, the most important sources for Mr Peacock’s Possessions were: Elsie K Morton Crusoes of Sunday Island, 1957. Steven Gentry, Raoul …
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  4. 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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  5. 31st March 2016: Children and Socialism series, Marx Memorial Library, London

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    March 8, 2016 by Lydia Syson

    New Ways to Tell Old Stories: putting the political into historical fiction for today’s young readers Lydia Syson and Meirian …
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  6. A WORLD BETWEEN US reviews

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    April 19, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    Christmas book pick in The Observer , The Telegraph , The Morning Star & Radio Suffolk, Teen book club choice on The Guardian Children’s Book website, recommended …
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  7. Longing for Lundy

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    September 25, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    The seat at the kitchen table by the relief map was the prized place at meal times, if I remember …
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  8. And another thing

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    September 7, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    Amy' s pic of iBook filming

    I spent yesterday filming for the iBook edition of A World Between Us.  So I’m spending today with all the …
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  9. The Torch of History

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    August 30, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    For most of my life I’ve been as likely to pole-vault out of the garden as to sit down to …
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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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