Blogs in January 1970

Beneath the Shadows 1st January 1970

When Grace’s husband, Adam, inherits a cottage on the isolated North Yorkshire moors, they leave London behind to try a new life. However, a week later, Adam vanishes, leaving their baby daughter on the doorstep. The following year, Grace...

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Not Dead Enough (Roy Grace 3) 1st January 1970

Not Dead Enough marks another welcome appearance for the author’s quirkily characterised policeman Roy Grace (who we’ve already met in Dead Simple and Looking Good Dead). Here, Grace is investigating the bizarre slaying of a member of Brighton’s social...

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The Clifton Chronicles (1) 1st January 1970

The Clifton Chronicles is Jeffrey Archer’s most ambitious work in four decades as an international bestselling author. The epic tale of Harry Clifton’s life begins in 1919, in the backstreets of Bristol. His father was a war hero, but...

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Hearts and Minds 1st January 1970

St Radegund’s College, Cambridge, which admits only women students, breaks with one hundred and sixty years of tradition by appointing a man, former BBC executive James Rycarte, as its new Head of House. As Rycarte fights to win over...

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Notes From an Exhibition 1st January 1970

With a lightness of touch, Patrick Gale delves into the link between creativity and mental health – the essential themes of art, death and bi-polar disorder. When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies she leaves behind an extraordinary body of...

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