Blogs in January 1970

A Lizard in my Luggage 1st January 1970

Anna had never liked the idea of Mallorca, thinking it was for the disco and beerswilling fraternity. That was until her sister hired an au pair from a rural part of the island who said it was the most...

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The Sun Also Rises 1st January 1970

A masterpiece, post World war 1: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley, who travel from the wild nightlife of Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain, in the company of a group of expatriates – moral dissolution, unrequited...

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A House in the High Hills 1st January 1970

Life in Spain, in the house that captured her heart, the neighbours, the friends, the scenery and the building work that that nearly finished her! But it is the arrival of a dog that makes her veer off course…

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Soldiers of Salamis 1st January 1970

The unnamed voice of this book is a contemporary journalist, who is investigating the story of Rafael Sanchez Mazas, a “good, not great” writer from the 1930s,set against the final moments of the Spanish Civil War. Sometimes philosophical, sometimes...

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Stone in a Landslide 1st January 1970

The beginning of the 20th century: 13-year-old Conxa has to leave her home village in the Pyrenees to work for her childless aunt. After years of hard labour, she finds love with Jaume – a love that will be...

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