Blogs in January 1970

The Soldier’s Return 1st January 1970

The end of World War Two has to be one of Britain’s most dewy-eyed, rose-tinted memories. Yearned for years in advance–Dame Vera Lynn built an entire career on such yearning–it spelled the end of the anguishing waiting, the terrible...

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Final Rounds 1st January 1970

In 1994, Dodson, a contributing editor and columnist for Golf magazine, visited the major courses of England and Scotland, an unusual trip because he was escorting his father, a man in his 80s, a diabetic who had recently been...

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Of Human Bondage 1st January 1970

Of Human Bondage is absoulute Somerset Maugham. The book is set in the last decades of the nineteenth century and, part autobiographical, it is about a young orphan, his apprenticeship in art, then medicine as well as the theme...

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Sugar Cane 1st January 1970

Beth Stephens’s seemingly normal life is turned upside down when her father, George Labelle passes away and she finds herself forced into travelling to Mauritius to spread his ashes. Set between England and Mauritius during the sixties to the...

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Earthly Joys 1st January 1970

Sweeping historical novel from Philippa Gregory the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin’s Lover. Set in the 1600s and seen through the eyes of John Tradescant, gardener to the great men of the age. A traveller...

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