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Blogs in January 1970

5 Peppermint Grove 1st January 1970

Emigration, emigration, emigration . . . Ruth Travers is leaving Ireland like so many of the Irish Diaspora who have gone before her. But, instead of a coffin ship, she’s travelling business class on a Boeing 777 and will...

The Book Thief 1st January 1970

Nine-year-old Liesel lives with her foster family on Himmel Street in Molching, a fictional village just outside non-ficitonal Munich, during the dark days of the Third Reich. Her Communist parents have been transported to a concentration camp, and during...

Heist 1st January 1970

‘Ford laid his fingertips gently on the cut in his shoulder where the bullet had clipped him. His best chance would be to hitch a ride south at the first opportunity, before the police started looking for him. He...

Castaway 1st January 1970

Lucy Irvine replied to an advertisement which simply said: ” Writer seeks “wife” for a year on a tropical island.” Most of us would have probably thought about how wonderful it would be to get away for a year,...

North of Nowhere, South of Loss 1st January 1970

Dark and gripping short stories set in Australia