Blogs in January 1970

Chocolate Worth Dying for 1st January 1970

Chocolate Worth Dying For–Maxine is the brand new owner of a chocolate shop and catering business ‘Au Chocolat’. She figures with a lot of hard work and a little luck she’ll be able to make her dream a reality....

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Chango’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes 1st January 1970

When journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, he has no idea that his own affinity for simple, declarative sentences will change his life radically overnight. So begins William Kennedy’s latest...

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The Bean Trees 1st January 1970

Taylor Greer moves from her home state of Kentucky in the hope of avoiding the fate of her contemporaries. As soon as she can, she buys a car and en route “out of Kentucky” she is handed a baby...

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Solo (A James Bond Novel) 1st January 1970

It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided...

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Dark Harbour 1st January 1970

Scott Finn worked his way out of Boston’s toughest neighbourhood to become a rising star in the city’s most elite law firm. When the body of Natalie Caldwell, one of his closest colleagues, and former lover, is found floating...

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