Blogs in January 1970

Daughters of Jerusalem 1st January 1970

Behind a crumbling facade of seeming normality, secrets begin to stir within the Lux family home. Jean Lux, constrained academic wife and guilty mother, is waiting for excitement – and it will come from an unexpected source. Meanwhile Eve,...

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The House of the Wicked 1st January 1970

1880: Stephen Denning is an artist arriving in Porthgarrow. It is an isolated Cornish fishing community, largely untouched by the modern, developing Victorian world, hanging onto its old traditions, superstitions and beliefs – a community that lives with a...

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The Last Train to Scarborough 1st January 1970

One night, in a private boarding house in Scarborough, a railwayman vanishes, leaving his belongings behind… It is the eve of the Great War, and Jim Stringer, railway detective, is uneasy about his next assignment. It’s not so much...

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The Discourtesy of Death 1st January 1970

An anonymous letter sent to Larkwood’s Prior accuses Peter Henderson, an academic celebrity renowned for daring ideas, of a grotesque murder: the calculated killing of Jenny, his disabled partner, believed by everyone to have died peacefully two years previously...

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Rogue Herries 1st January 1970

Rogue Herries tells the story of the larger than life Francis Herries who uproots his family from Yorkshire and brings them to live in Borrowdale where their life is as dramatic as the landscape surrounding them. Proud, violent and...

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