Blogs in January 1970

The Various Flavours of Coffee 1st January 1970

It is 1895. Robert Wallis, would-be poet, bohemian and impoverished dandy, accepts a commission from coffee merchant Samuel Pinker to categorise the different tastes of coffee – and encounters Pinker’s free-thinking daughters, Philomenia, Ada and Emily. As romance blossoms...

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Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky 1st January 1970

Bob – bartender in a pub just off the Euston Road – is desperate to become a writer. He inherits a small sum of money and carefully builds it up, but the arrival Jenny Maples changes his life… (Part...

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When London was Capital of America 1st January 1970

Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London more than Philadelphia: it was simply the most exciting place to be in the British Empire. And in the decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution, thousands of his fellow colonists flocked to...

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The Feng Shui Detective goes West 1st January 1970

C.F. Wong, the Feng Shui practiioner meets a client onboard a cruise ship. Murder, Chinese Mafia and a commission to check out the balance of a plane owned by the British Government lead him to come into contact with...

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The Power Behind the Throne 1st January 1970

In the year of HRH The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee comes a fiercely controversial story that exposes evil at the heart of the British establishment. Three of the UK’s most powerful men will stop at nothing to protect the monarchy,...

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