Blogs in January 1970

Breakfast at Wimbledon 1st January 1970

Brad Smith is to face McEnroe at Wimbledon. He has orders from the CIA to keep an eye on Irish terrorism and keep tennis safe. Set amidst the social whirl of Wimbledon fortnight, he pairs up with a pretty...

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The Sirens Sang of Murder 1st January 1970

Whilst on a trip to the sunny Channel Islands to find the heir in a lucrative tax law case, young barrister Michael Cantrip finds himself in over his head. Peculiar things begin to occur on the mysterious and isolated...

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Where Have You Been? 1st January 1970

Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York’s Lower East Side in the nineteenth century, from dark comedy to poignancy, from the wryly provocative to the quietly beautiful, these stories offer a gathering of dreamers and lost...

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The Feng Shui Detective goes West 1st January 1970

C.F. Wong, the Feng Shui practiioner meets a client onboard a cruise ship. Murder, Chinese Mafia and a commission to check out the balance of a plane owned by the British Government lead him to come into contact with...

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Kitchen Venom 1st January 1970

Winner of a Somerset Maugham Award 1997 A stunning novel of political life, betrayal and passion, which lifts the lid on vice within the Palace of Westminster…and cost Hensher his job as a House of Commons clerk. John is...

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