Blogs in January 1970

Sacred Sierra: A Year on a Spanish Mountain 1st January 1970

Jason Webster had lived in spain for 15 years whne he and his partner Salud, a flamenco dancer, choose to relocate from Valencia to the mountains. to an isolated and run down farmhouse. This is the first year of...

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Voices of the Old Sea 1st January 1970

“Voices of the Old Sea” is Lewis’ masterly description of the Costa Brava on the cusp of tourist development in the 1950s, a place where men regulated their lives by the sardine shoals of spring and autumn and the...

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Death on a Galician Shore 1st January 1970

A cleverly plotted, page-turning murder mystery set on the beautiful, rugged coast of Galicia in northwest Spain

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Blood Wedding 1st January 1970

A death of a Muslim student, Leila, turns into a terrorist attack in Grenada. Max Romero takes on the investigation, and finds that she was researching the impact of the Spanish Civil War on his own home village in...

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Leaving the Atocha Station 1st January 1970

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his attitude towards art. Fuelled by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers, Adam’s ‘research’ soon...

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