Blogs in January 1970

Porterhouse Blue 1st January 1970

Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the social cache it confers on the athletic sons of country families. Sir Godber Evans, ex-Cabinet Minister and the new Master,...

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Time Out of Mind 1st January 1970

Faced with the apparent wreck of her life – two deaths which haunt her, a failing marriage and a soulless job – Rose Little flees London for Penmaris, a quiet Cornish cottage where she plans to paint and consider...

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The House by the Sea 1st January 1970

The Italian storyline begins in 1966 with Floriana, a ten-year-old girl who lives with her drunken father in a small village in Tuscany. 2009 we meet Marina, a woman in her fifties who runs a hotel on the Devon...

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Mr Rosenbulm’s List 1st January 1970

Jack and Sadie Rosenblum come to England from Germany in the 1930s. He wants to integrate and follows the advice in the leaflet he receives on arrival. Sadie, however, does not want to integrate and misses her life in...

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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox 1st January 1970

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