Blogs in January 1970

50 (Fifty) Shades of Grey 1st January 1970

When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Convinced that their meeting went badly, she tries to put him out of her mind – until he turns up at...

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Sweat 1st January 1970

When Jake Patrick took a summer internship at his estranged father’s corporation, he anticipated some much-needed extra cash and a couple of free meals from his guilty dad. He would never have guessed that he’d find himself in the...

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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet 1st January 1970

1986, The Panama Hotel The old Seattle landmark has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made a startling discovery in the basement: personal belongings stored away by Japanese families sent to interment camps during...

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Where’d you go, Bernadette 1st January 1970

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she’s a fearlessly opinionated partner: to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she’s a disgrace: to design mavens, she’s a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and,...

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50 (Fifty) Shades Darker 1st January 1970

Daunted by the dark secrets of the tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Ana Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a US publishing house. But desire for Grey still dominates her every waking thought,...

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