Blogs in January 1970

Beautiful Ruins 1st January 1970

The story begins on the Italian coast in 1962. A young innkeeper watches in disbelief as a beautiful American girl gets out of a boat and climbs towards his hotel. She turns out to be an actress, on the...

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So Many Ways to Begin 1st January 1970

The book follows a Museum Curator and adopted son through his life. Forgotten times, post war Britain, this is a piecing together of one life through mementos past and present. A life set in the context of history.

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Worm in the Bud (#1) 1st January 1970

In Birmingham a local journalist is found dead in his home. A puncture wound in his arm a testimony to his death by lethal injection, the cryptic note by his side: ‘no more’, seems at first to suggest suicide...

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1983 (The Red Riding Quartet) 1st January 1970

Fiction set in Yorkshire. This brings the Red Riding Quartet to its brilliant conclusion. Tense and full of drama it is hard to put down.

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The Greatcoat 1st January 1970

In the winter of 1952, Isabel Carey moves to the East Riding of Yorkshire with her husband Philip, a GP. With Philip spending long hours on call, Isabel finds herself isolated and lonely as she strives to adjust to...

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