Blogs in January 1970

Breaker 1st January 1970

Tom and Beth are not happy when they move to North Berwick and find themselves facing a rainy, windswept beach, a house that’s falling to pieces and a school full of strangers. When they meet Professor Macblain, with his...

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Espresso Tales (#2 44 Scotland Street) 1st January 1970

From the back cover: Bruce, the intolerably vain and perpetually deluded ex-surveyor, is about to embark on a career as a wine merchant, while his long-suffering flatmate Pat Macgregor, set up by matchmaking Domenica Macdonald, finds herself invited to...

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Blackberry Wine 1st January 1970

Jay Mackintosh has the privilege of spending time with Jackapple Joe who introduces him to the simple wisdom and magic of life in the country, in Kirby Monckton. Joe disappears one Autumn without trace and Jay makes an impulse...

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Keeping Up With the Germans: A History of Anglo-German Encounters 1st January 1970

In 1996, in the middle of watching an ill-tempered football match between England and Germany, Philip Oltermann’s parents tell him that they are going to leave their home city Hamburg behind and move to London. A number of worrying...

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Ashenden 1st January 1970

Spring 2010, and when Charlie and Ros inherit Ashenden from their aunt Reggie a decision must be made. The beautiful eighteenth-century house, set in acres of English countryside, is in need of serious repair. Do they try to keep...

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