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Blogs in January 1970

A Study in Scarlet 1st January 1970

The theft of the Agna treasure in India forms a catalyst for treachery, deceit and murder. From his lodgings in Baker Street Holmes and Watson forge their working relationship in this, the first of the Sherlock Holmes series.

Distant Music 1st January 1970

Distant Music comprises four different stories, spanning from the 15th to the 21st centuries. The book starts out in Madeira in 1429, with the backdrop of Portugal as a marine empire, Christopher Columbus features briefly, anti-Semitism is a recurring...

Downriver 1st January 1970

Downriver is constructed as twelve interlocking narratives, in which Iain Sinclair traces the ruins of Margaret Thatcher’s reign through the lens of a fictional film crew that has been hired to make a documentary about what’s left of London’s...

Siege 1st January 1970

London is under attack. People are dead. Many more lives hang in the balance as a group of highly trained gunmen storm the historic Stanhope Hotel on Park Lane. The gunmen have given the government just five hours to...

An Alphabet of London 1st January 1970

London is the only city in the world where you could ever find Gilbert and George sharing space with the Gherkin and the Globe while the Great Fire burns and a gin drinker glugs her favorite tipple, and where...