Blogs in January 1970

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...

Read More 

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...

Read More 

Vile Bodies 1st January 1970

The Bright Young Things of 1920s Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade, whether it is promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties or sports cars. A...

Read More 

Dancing on Thorns 1st January 1970

It briefly starts out in Paris but the main location is London. Ballet and theatre – even if you are not a great fan – this is a terrific book, with a tremendous cast of characters.

Read More 

Mother London 1st January 1970

A large, though never sprawling, novel Mother London follows three mental-hospital outpatients Mary Gasalee, David Mummery and Josef Kiss and their friends, in an episodic, non-linear history of the capital from the Blitz to present day. Most noteworthy is...

Read More