Tag: Streatham Library
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Writing about WW2 – a British obsession.
Writing about World War 2 is not for the faint-hearted as most of the British have a fixed view and may have heard the stories handed down from their parents. The battle with the Nazis appears to being rerun nightly in the form of military documentaries on TV. The wartime leader Churchill’s home is still…
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The college principal who was key in the development of One Year One Night by SL Roman.
The original idea underlying the story of an unlucky boy in One Year One Night by SL Roman came through a few key individuals. They included the principal of Strode’s College in Egham Dr Frank Botham. Frank was very keen on media in general and ran a college with a number of courses in the…
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One Year One Night by SL Roman now available in North America and elsewhere on digital platforms including Audible.
Fans of listening to stories can hear the young adult novel read by actresss Laura Castiel. The wartime story of an unlucky boy which first appeared in print was the brainchild of Laura Meloni Bywaters and Sarah Onions. They chose the pen name of SL Roman to reflect Laura’s home city, Rome. It was published…
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Sending the children away – how the British coped with evacuation – in One Year One Night by SL Roman.
The effect of evacuation often lasted for a lifetime – some children were lucky and the British film director Bryan Forbes later wrote happily of his experience of leaving a working class background in East London and staying with a professor and his wife in picturesque Cornwall in the west ofEngland.But one boy Sarah and…
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Our young adult novel One Year One Night by SL Roman is now on sale in North America and elsewhere.
It’s a story based on a teenager’s diary set in WW2. Our heroine Annie has to care for an evacuated boy in southern England. SL Roman is the pen name for London writers Sarah Onions and Laura Meloni Bywaters. It’s their first collaboration together and now they are working on a sequel. One Year One…
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One of the writers for award-winning One Year One Night by SL Roman has an Italian background.
Laura Meloni Bywaters was born in Rome. She grew up there when the rest of the world was rediscovering this iconic metropolis with its style, red vespas and coffee bars. Laura went on to attend Rome University where she got a First Class degree. She worked as a teacher and researcher and during a research…
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Victory roll hairdo inspired the artist of the cover of award-winning One Year One Night by SL Roman.
The award-winning novel ‘One Year One Night’ by SL Roman features an eye-catching cover. It was designed by artist David Malcolm who found a Getty image of Annie, the heroine of the young adult novel. The illustration has a sixties feel in the style of pop art luminary Roy Lichtenstein which fits as the story…
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One Year One Night on screen in North America.
A short film has been made to promote One Year One Night by SL Roman in North America. It shows some of the main characters in the award-winning young adult novel set in WW2. The story is the creation of British writers Sarah Onions and Laura Meloni Bywaters. The film can be seen here: It…
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North American reviewers want to know more about British writing pair.
The authors of One Year One Night are getting questions about their writing ahead of publication. Sarah Onions and Laura Meloni Bywaters write under the pen name SL Roman. The young adult fiction novel will be published in N. America in the early summer. Reviewers wanted to know about the inspiration for their first work…
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Hardcover copy of first novel received by British women writing pair.
Two British writers who’ve been published in N. America have seen the revised version of the hardback cover of One Year One Night for the first time. The Young Adult story by SL Roman is being published by Red Chair Press and will be distributed in libraries in the U. S. and Canada. Sarah Onions…
One Year One Night - SL Roman. 