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Blogs in January 1970

Death in Holy Orders 1st January 1970

With Death in Holy Orders, P. D. James makes a triumphant return to the genre for which she is best known – the classic English detective story. The story is set in an Anglican theological college on a desolate...

Waterland 1st January 1970

‘Perfectly controlled, superbly written. Waterland is original, compelling and narration of the highest order’ Guardian In the years since its first publication, in 1983, Waterland has established itself as one of the classics of twentieth-century British literature: a visionary...

Something Might Happen 1st January 1970

On a Monday night in October in a small seaside town in Suffolk, a woman is brutally murdered. There are no obvious suspects, she was not an obvious victim. She just wasn’t, thinks her grieving, bewildered friend Tess, the...

The Rings of Saturn 1st January 1970

There is a narrative thread in the form of a journey through East Anglia but this is broken by tangental episodes and characters that drift in often seemingly from out of nowhere. This mixture of abstraction and convention is...

The Dig 1st January 1970

In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange...