Blogs in January 1970

The Flower Plantation 1st January 1970

Arthur Baptiste knows little of Rwanda’s past and is unaware of its emerging troubles. He lives with his parents on a flower plantation where he talks to no one, not even the butterflies he collects, until one day Beni...

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Rivers of London 1st January 1970

My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns...

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Sea of Poppies 1st January 1970

At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies...

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Sustenance 1st January 1970

The Elsewhere Hotel in Bali has the ‘Bali’ lifestyle – exotic, pool, palms, views,everything a holiday dream should be. And the tourist who congregate are all looking to ‘Find Yourself’ the strapline of the hotel., Perpetua de Mello extolls...

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You are the love of my life 1st January 1970

It is 1973 and Watergate is on everyone’s lips. Lucy Painter is a children’s book illustrator and a single mother of two. She leaves New York and the married father of her children to live in Washington in the...

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