Blogs in January 1970

Pink Mist 1st January 1970

Pink Mist is a verse-drama about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan. School friends still in their teens, Arthur, Hads and Taff each have their own reasons for enlisting. Within a short space of time...

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New Finnish Grammar 1st January 1970

After a badly wounded sailor with amnesia is discovered washed up on the quay in Trieste after the Second World War, he’s taken back to Helsinki by a Finnish doctor in an attempt to rebuild his identity. Together they...

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Good Women 1st January 1970

In ‘Light My Fire’ a passionate relationship cannot withstand a clash of tastes and an ancient Aga: a housewife’s life is transformed when she starts to see angels in ‘Walking with Angels’: and ‘Garden Guerillas’ follows a widow plotting...

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England, England 1st January 1970

What constitutes England and Englishness? The plot revolves around a businessman’s attempt to create a legacy by creating a sort of mini-England on the Isle of Wight (The Island). A Utopia-cum-Dystopia what is “englishness” – Robin Hood? Fish and...

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Two Tickets to Dubrovnik 1st January 1970

“Two Tickets to Dubrovnik is a novella centered on the bittersweet memories of an Australian wine writer’s visit to Croatia. Tightly written, the book is filled with information about the area’s history and could even work as something of...

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