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Blogs in January 1970

Once in a house on fire 1st January 1970

Given her start in life, it is all the more remarkable that Andrea Ashworth should have turned out to be an Oxford graduate with such a compelling memoir under her belt. Her father died when she was five, her...

What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An Odyssey Through 1950s Suburbia 1st January 1970

Michele Hanson grew up an ‘oddball tomboy disappointment’ in a Jewish family in Ruislip in the 1950s – a suburban, Metroland idyll of neat lawns, bridge parties and Martini socials. Yet this shopfront of respectability masked a multitude of...

The Season Ticket 1st January 1970

Once you have the rhythm of the Geordie dialect, you will be well away! Tulloch is interested in humanizing the inhabitants of modern Britain’s slums and ghettos and in this book via Gerry and Sewell, two teenage boys living...

The Cheesemaker’s House 1st January 1970

“Just think, Alice, right now Owen could be putting a hex on you!” When Alice Hart’s husband runs off with his secretary, she runs off with his dog to lick her wounds in a North Yorkshire village. Battling with...

Equinox 1st January 1970

Oxford, 2006: a young woman is found brutally murdered, her throat cut.Her heart has been removed and in its place lies an apparently ancient gold coin. Twenty-four hours later, another woman is found. The MO is identical, except that...