Blogs in January 1970

The Jazz Flower 1st January 1970

The Jazz Flower is a follow-up to Forbidden Circles, which ends with Nora Johnson and Douglas Stills expecting their first child. In The Jazz Flower, the child is born. Later, the couple has two more children. But it is...

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The Paris Winter 1st January 1970

Imogen Robertson’s break-out novel – a deep, dark and opulent tale of Belle ?poque Paris, and the secrets and dangers hidden beneath its luxurious facade. Maud Heighton came to Lafond’s famous Academie to paint, and to flee the constraints...

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Run Away 1st January 1970

Julie’s been haunted by the memories of her failed marriage for far too long. Devastated when Lisa, her teenage daughter, sets off on a Gap Year trip, Julie realises she really is on her own. She buries herself in...

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A Man’s Head 1st January 1970

Set in the in the atmospheric and squalid streets of Paris, Maigret sets out to prove the innocence of a man condemned to death for a brutal murder. In another one of Maigret’s unconventional and audacious plans, he arranges...

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The Woman in the Fifth 1st January 1970

That was the year my life fell apart, and that was the year I moved to Paris. I arrived a few days after Christmas. It was a wet grey morning – the sky the colour of dirty chalk: the...

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