Blogs in January 1970

Sugar Cane 1st January 1970

Beth Stephens’s seemingly normal life is turned upside down when her father, George Labelle passes away and she finds herself forced into travelling to Mauritius to spread his ashes. Set between England and Mauritius during the sixties to the...

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Dodo Destiny 1st January 1970

Dodo Destiny examines the sad tale of the dodo and the intriguing history of its native Mauritius, a beautiful island nation home to one of today’s truly multicultural societies. The dodo is a universal symbol of extinction, yet little...

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Sea of Poppies 1st January 1970

At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies...

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The Cat’s Table 1st January 1970

‘What had there been before such a ship in my life? A dugout canoe on a river journey? A launch in Trincomalee harbour? There were always fishing boats on our horizon. But I could never imagine the grandeur of...

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Beach Babylon 1st January 1970

The TripFiction team conjectures from events in the book, that this book is set in The Maldives: however the book only acknowledges that is set somewhere exotic. The book alludes to it being a Muslim country, there is an...

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