Blogs in January 1970

Mutiny (4) 1st January 1970

It is 1797 and Thomas Kydd is now master’s mate on Achilles, a 64-gun ship-of-the-line, on his way back from the Caribbean. After a dangerous rescue mission to Venice Kydd sails for England, but his joy at returning home...

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The Hiding Place 1st January 1970

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The Dinner 1st January 1970

A summer’s evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse – the banality of work, the...

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Notwithstanding 1st January 1970

Notwithstanding is a fictional village somewhere in Surrey, England around the Haslemere and Godalming area. Endless humour with a real heart, it celebrates the mundane, the ordinariness and the quirkiness of english life in a beautiful village.

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Hurry Up And Wait 1st January 1970

In her eargerly anticipated second novel, Mail on Sunday Novel Competition winner Isabel Ashdown explored the treacherous territory of adolescent friendships and traces the repercussions of a dangerous relationship across the decades. It’s been more than 20 years since...

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