Blogs in January 1970

The Dirty Beat 1st January 1970

Rock and jazz drummer max is dead. Now, in his coffin as his friends prepare to bury him, Max is surrounded by the ghosts of his life and the dreams that never faded. All the old music is back...

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Coal Creek 1st January 1970

Bobby Blue is caught between loyalty to his only friend, Ben Tobin, and his boss, Daniel Collins, the new Constable at Mount Hay. ‘Ben was not a big man but he was strong and quick as a snake. He...

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The Mary Smokes Boys 1st January 1970

With themes of love, abandonment one’s responsibility in life towards others, this is set in the small town of ‘Mary Smokes’.

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Tirra Lirra by the River 1st January 1970

Life has become a series of escapes for Nora Porteous – from small-town family life: the hypocrisy of a mean-hearted husband and in-laws: and the suffocation of Suburbia. Nora endures with courage, intelligence and humour as, in this book,...

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48 Shades of Brown 1st January 1970

Dan’s sixteen, about to start his final year at school, and his parents have gone overseas for a year. Jacq’s twenty-two, drops by uni for the occasional class, and plays in a rock band that might be called Crimplene....

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