Blogs in January 1970

The Piano Tuner 1st January 1970

On a misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office: he must leave his wife, and his quiet life in London, to travel to the jungles of Burma to tune...

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Oleanna (A Novel of Norway in 1905) 1st January 1970

Set during the separation of Norway from Sweden in 1905, this richly detailed novel of love and loss was inspired by the life of the author’s great-great-aunts. Oleanna and her sister Elisabeth are the last of their family working...

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J’adore New York 1st January 1970

Catherine is a young professional French lawyer with a natural flair for fashion who moves from Paris to the New York, to the same law firm

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Those Who Save Us 1st January 1970

‘Impossible’ Max breathes. ‘This is impossible.’ Anna bends to put her lips to his ear ‘No, it’s not’ she whispers. ‘I know where to hide you. I have the perfect place.’ For fifty years Anna Schlemmer has refused to...

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No Country for Old Men 1st January 1970

Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice – leave the scene as he found it,...

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