Blogs in January 1970

N-W 1st January 1970

NW is Zadie Smith’s masterful novel about London life. Zadie Smith’s brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners – Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan – after they’ve left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives....

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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...

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Living Proof 1st January 1970

A book and film convention in Nottingham. An American writer of a lesbian series is attacked by feminists and receives threats: prostitutes are under attack….

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Double Sunset 1st January 1970

Ava Banks spends the summer on Rudyard Lake in England. While contemplating how her life has changed in the past year, she develops a strange connection with love on the prairie in the 1800’s through a series of dreams....

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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...

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