Blogs in January 1970

She Rises 1st January 1970

It is 1740 and Louise Fletcher, a young dairymaid on an Essex farm, has been warned of the lure of the sea for as long as she can remember – after all, it stole away her father and brother....

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The Painter 1st January 1970

Beautifully evocative and suspensful double time-scheme narrative about Rembrandt, love and art. In January, 1662, the artist Rembrandt, bankrupted in the great tulip crash, accidentally stows away on a boat for Hull. To pay for his passage, he must...

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On Gallows Hill 1st January 1970

Michal Morey was born on the Isle of Wight in the late 17th century. Employed as a woodcutter and married to Beth, they live in a run down cottage on the edge of Pan Wood. Michal was renowned for...

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The Business of Dying 1st January 1970

DS Dennis Milne kills three innocent people, initiating an investigation. A few hours later Milne is on the streets again investigating the death of a woman found by Regent’s Canal. As his investigation grows, he discovers a level of...

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The Repentent Morning 1st January 1970

Fitzrovia, Soho in London, 1930s. Meredith Kerr is spending another evening of inebriation with three men. Harry Bowden, billy boyle and Arthur Lawler all want her for themselves. But Meredith has forgotten how to understand what it is she...

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