Deliverance 1st January 1970
A group of middle-aged friends in search of the wilderness experience that has been missing from their big-city lives go canoeing one weekend. They pack all the usual survival gear – plus a banjo and a bow and arrow...
Blogs in January 1970
American Dream Machine 1st January 1970
Beau Rosenwald – overweight, not particularly handsome, and improbably charismatic – arrives in Los Angles in 1962 with nothing but an ill-fitting suit and a pair of expensive brogues. By the late 1970s he has helped found the most...
Black Water Rising 1st January 1970
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2010, and critically acclaimed in US and UK. The novel is set in 1980’s Houston where Jay (whos is a lawyer) and his wife Bernadine are on a boat on the bayou celebrating her...
One Breath Away 1st January 1970
He has a gun. Who? Tell me, where are you? Who has a gun? I love you, Mum. An ordinary school day in March, snowflakes falling, classroom freezing, kids squealing with delight, locker-doors slamming. Then the shooting started. No-one...
The Bookers: San Francisco Memories 1st January 1970
When nineteen-year-old Constance Connors, the beautiful and carefree Hawaiian-born daughter of an Episcopalian minister, meets a newly graduated West Point cadet, Second Lieutenant Joseph Booker, she’s instantly smitten. But it’s not long before she finds herself pregnant, married, and...
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