Blogs in January 1970

Garnethill 1st January 1970

It is, of course, the stuff of nightmares. Maureen comes home late and drunk and wakes up next morning with a hangover, and her boyfriend in the next room with his throat cut, and something nasty in the cupboard...

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The Shadow Year 1st January 1970

1980. On a hot summer’s day five friends stumble upon an abandoned cottage hidden deep in the English countryside. Isolated and run-down, it offers a retreat, somewhere they can escape from the world. But as the seasons change, tensions...

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Wish You Were Here (Graham Swift) 1st January 1970

On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother Tom, not seen for years, has been...

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Cast-Iron Men 1st January 1970

A tense, pacy, violent crime thriller, Cast-Iron Men looks beyond the gloss of Liverpool’s status as City of Culture, as two tough and vulnerable female reporters gun for the big fish who think they run their small pond. Brutal...

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The Shadow Lines 1st January 1970

A wide-eyed boy growing up in suburban Calcutta in the 1960s experiences the world through the eyes of others – an intoxicating older cousin, a grandmother who weaves stories from the past and a family in London whose lives...

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