Blogs in January 1970

Before I go to Sleep 1st January 1970

Christine Lucas is a 47 year old amnesiac, living with her husband, Ben. He explains to her that the reason that every time she goes to sleep, she looses her memory is because of a hit and run accident....

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The Mulberry Empire 1st January 1970

The novel begins in Kabul with the arrival of Burnes, an ambitious young Scot, eager to open up the country to the English. News of his arrival soon reaches the Amir, for whom “the arrival of the new European...

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Tideline 1st January 1970

One winter’s afternoon, voice coach Sonia opens the door of her beautiful riverside home at Greenwich, London, to fifteen-year-old Jez, the nephew of a family friend. He’s come to borrow some music. Sonia invites him in and soon decides...

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Portrait of a Spy 1st January 1970

Gabriel Allon and his wife Chiara,his Italian wife are still trying to retire to the English countryside and really go back to art restoration. Gabriel Allon, secret agent, assassin and master art restorer, returns in a spellbinding new novel...

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The Saint Zita Society 1st January 1970

Ruth Rendell’s Saint Zita Society is formed by disgruntled servants working in salubrious Belgravia. Not all are unhappy with their lot, for there are Dickensian below-stairs exploiters as well as thoughtless bankers and aristocrats in the grand apartments above,...

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