Blogs in January 1970

There’s Something About St Tropez 1st January 1970

Sunny Alvarez’s life is looking decidedly bleak. For what seems like the umpteenth time, her perennial fiance, TV celebrity detective Mac Reilly, has postponed their wedding in favor of a demanding case. Tired of playing second banana to Mac’s...

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The Shell Seekers 1st January 1970

Artist’s daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she truly loved. She has brought up three children – and...

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All Souls’ Day 1st January 1970

Arthur Daane, a documentary film-maker and inveterate globetrotter, has lost his wife and child in a plane crash. In ALL SOULS’ DAY we follow Arthur as he wanders the streets of Berlin, a city uniquely shaped by history. Berlin...

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The Moment 1st January 1970

Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. Living a very private life in Maine, in touch only with his daughter and still trying to recover from the end of a long marriage,...

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Emil and the Detectives 1st January 1970

Emil Tischbein is the serious young hero of Erich Kästner’s children’s classic. His adventures on the streets of Weimar-era Berlin are the perfect introduction to the world of fictional crime detection. (The Independent)

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