Blogs in January 1970

city-pick New York 1st January 1970

New York is one of the most exciting and pulsating cities on earth. Here over seventy dazzling writers celebrate the richness and diversity of this amazing metropolis – the latest in this unique series featuring the best-ever writing on...

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Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore 1st January 1970

A New York Times bestseller, Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore is an entirely charming and lovable first novel of mysterious books and dusty bookshops: it is a witty and delightful love-letter to both the old book world and the new....

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Good Neighbors 1st January 1970

Set in Queens, NYC. This book has also been published as Acts of Violence. At the centre is the brutal stabbing of Katrina Marino – and precept is based on the real life murder of Catherine Genovese, murdered in...

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Eden Close 1st January 1970

Andrew, an advertising executive in his mid-30s, returns to his hometown in upstate New York for his mother’s funeral. He does not intend to stay in the slow rural backwater he left seventeen years before. But the dreams and...

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A Walk to Remember 1st January 1970

Can you resist the depths of the human heart? It is 1958 and seventeen-year-old Landon is revelling in his youth: dating girls and even claiming to have been in love. He is a world apart from shy, reclusive Jamie...

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