Blogs in January 1970

Murder at the Maples 1st January 1970

A cosy mystery set in North Shropshire: Flora Lively is a likeable and interesting character trying against all the odds to keep Shakers Removals going – it’s the business she’s inherited from her Dad. And what is going on...

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The Flight (Jenny Cooper 4) 1st January 1970

Coroner Jenny Cooper has to examine two bodies washed up after Flight 189 from Heathrow, and destined for JFK, plunges into the Severn Estuary,

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What I Was 1st January 1970

I’d been kicked out of two boarding schools and the last thing I wanted was to be here, on the East Anglian coast, in a third. But without St Oswald’s, I would not have discovered the fisherman’s hut with...

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Rogue Herries 1st January 1970

Rogue Herries tells the story of the larger than life Francis Herries who uproots his family from Yorkshire and brings them to live in Borrowdale where their life is as dramatic as the landscape surrounding them. Proud, violent and...

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Walking Home 1st January 1970

In summer 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north, from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, the other side of the Scottish border. He...

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