Blogs in January 1970

The First Blast of the Trumpet 1st January 1970

Hailes Castle, 1511. Midnight on a doom-laden Hallowe’en and Elisabeth Hepburn, feisty daughter of the Earl of Bothwell, makes a wish – to wed her lover, the poet David Lindsay. But her uncle has other plans. To safeguard the...

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Love Over Scotland (#3 44 Scotland Street) 1st January 1970

With his characteristic warmth, inventiveness and brilliant wit, Alexander McCall Smith gives us more of the gloriously entertaining comings and goings at 44 Scotland Street, the Edinburgh townhouse. Six-year-old prodigy Bertie perseveres in his heroic struggle for truth and...

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Love in a Cold Climate 1st January 1970

Part of the trilogy – In Pursuit of Love,Love in a Cold Climate and The Blessing. A beautifully evocative description of the British aristocracy at play.

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You Are Awful (But I Like You) 1st January 1970

Moore sets off to travel to the worst places in Britain, in one of the worst cars we have produced (the R Reg. Maestro called Craig), listening to the worst music, staying and eating in the worst places….such is...

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A Stone’s Throw 1st January 1970

A multi-layered story of three generations of one family and is set in England and Kenya during and after the Second World War. Meg Brya is sailing to Kenya to be with her fiance. On the boat ride out...

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