Blogs in January 1970

1974 (The Red Riding Quartet) 1st January 1970

Fiction set in Yorkshire. The Yorkshire Post’s young but disillusioned crime correspondent, Edward Dunford, is assigned to the story, while juggling the recent death of his father and the return to his native Yorkshire after a brief, unsuccessful stint...

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Dirt Music 1st January 1970

Fox is the sole survivor of a terrible accident involving his family, he becomes an outcast yet finds love of a sort with Georgie, a woman who is as adrift as he.

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The Trade Mission 1st January 1970

Imagine your job is to translate for a pair of arrogant technology whizzkids on business in South America. Imagine you are accompanying them on a jaunty boat trip up the river Amazon. Imagine that late one night some foreign...

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Blood Safari 1st January 1970

Emma le Roux, a wealthy young woman sees a news story on TV, which leads her to believe that her brother, Jacobus le Roux, thought to be dead for twenty years, is, in fact alive: and a suspect, under...

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The Feast of the Goat 1st January 1970

Mario Vargas Llosa, a former candidate for the presidency of Peru, is better placed than most novelists to write about the machinations of Latin American politics. In The Feast of the Goat he offers a vivid recreation of the...

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