Blogs in January 1970

The Elegance of the Hedgehog 1st January 1970

Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, in keeping, she feels,...

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The Janus Stone 1st January 1970

The action takes place in Norfolk, from Norwich to Swaffham to Ruth Galloway’s bolt hole on the windswept North Norfolk marshes and involves Roman myths, Catholicism and missing children. Ruth’s expertise is called upon when builders, demolishing an old...

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Foreign Bodies 1st January 1970

The book is set among Jewish-Americans in the early 1950’s, the McCarthy years of loyalty oaths. Bea Nightingale,in her 50s is divorced in NYC where she teaches English and has put her life on hold since her divorce. She...

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The Reinvention of Love 1st January 1970

When Charles Saint-Beuve, a French literary journalist met Victor Hugo, an ambitious young writer who intended to become famous, he was swept into a world of grand emotions, a world where words can become swords. But it is not...

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A Novel Bookstore 1st January 1970

Ivan, a world traveller, and Italian heiress Francesca are the owners of an out-of-the-ordinary bookshop in a corner of Paris in which passion for literature overrides bestsellers and titles are chosen by a top-secret committee of like minded connoisseurs....

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