Blogs in January 1970

Looking Good Dead (Roy Grace 2) 1st January 1970

Tom Bryce picks up a CD which has been left behind on a train seat, but when he attempts to track down the owner, he finds himself the only witness to a savage killing. Reporting the crime to the...

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Children of the Wav 1st January 1970

Set in the late 18th century, this powerful historical novel focuses on the city of Bristol and its connections with the slave trade at a time when the abolitionist movement is gathering momentum in England. A well-respected Bristol councillor...

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Jubilee 1st January 1970

Published in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee year, Shelley Harris’s remarkably assured debut novel is rooted in the Silver Jubilee celebrations of June 1977. Cherry Gardens, in a small Buckinghamshire village, is throwing a street party. Union Jack bunting is...

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The Gate of Angels 1st January 1970

Set in Cambridge and London in 1912, The Gate of Angels is a love story and a novel of ideas. Fred, a rector’s son, has abandoned religion for observable truths, whereas the undereducated Daisy is a Christian for whom...

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A Perfectly Good Man 1st January 1970

There’s a particular strain of English mildness that carries within it a finely wrought undercurrent of viciousness. It’s there in the title of Patrick Gale’s new novel, A Perfectly Good Man, which you could either take literally – that...

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