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After an early career as a BBC World Service Radio producer, Lydia Syson turned from the spoken to the written word, and developed an enduring obsession with history. Her PhD about poets, explorers and Timbuktu was followed by a biography of Britain’s first fertility guru, DOCTOR OF LOVE: JAMES GRAHAM AND HIS CELESTIAL BED, and then two YA novels for Hot Key Books set in the Spanish Civil War (A WORLD BETWEEN US) and World War Two (THAT BURNING SUMMER). LIBERTY’S FIRE, a passionate tale of the Paris Commune of 1871, is the third of her novels to be inspired, very loosely, by family history. Her much praised adult fiction debut, MR PEACOCK'S POSSESSIONS, a sophisticated 'Robinsonade' for the twenty-first century set on a remote Pacific islan ...more

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	Mr Peacock's Possessions 3.75 avg rating — 467 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A World Between Us 3.56 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	That Burning Summer 3.39 avg rating — 236 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Liberty's Fire 3.57 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor of Love: James Graham and His Celestial Bed 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meneer Peacocks paradijs 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mr Peacock's Possessions: THE TIMES Book of the Year 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[That Burning Summer] [By: Syson, Lydia] [October, 2013] by Lydia Syson (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Lydia Syson brings history to life in fiction and non-fiction which works on many levels: her books are rewarding for readers new to a theme yet also much appreciated by those with deeper knowledge. She’s worked with words and stories all her life, spending her early career as a BBC World Service radio producer before completing a PhD about Timbuktu (2003). Her much cited biography of Britain’s fi

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Lydia Syson wrote a new blog post Breaking into the middle of the story. . . Paloma Fresno-Calleja has written a very perceptive analysis of Mr Peacock’s Possessions in the journal Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. Her Read more of this blog post »
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