Blogs in January 1970

Invitation to Die 1st January 1970

Twenty-six-year-old Emily Castles is out of work… again. So when famous romance author Morgana Blakely offers her a job helping out at a conference in London, Emily accepts. Just as eagerly, American blogger Winnie Kraster accepts an invitation from...

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Secrets and Shadows 1st January 1970

In 1940, a young woman makes a decision that will have repercussions for generations to follow… On the eve of VE Day 1945, six-year-old Alexandra Graham is torn from her comfortable wartime existence in Scotland, to begin an uneasy...

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Bageye at the Wheel 1st January 1970

Back in the early 1970s, Luton’s population is mainly white and working-class, with a handful of Afro-Caribbean families. Among them are the Grants and, in the person of the eponymous Bageye, they have a formidable paterfamilias. Bageye takes his...

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The Cotton Harvest 1st January 1970

Manchester: England’s Second City. A migrant worker who disappears without trace… A human trafficker who boils his victims alive… A century-old blood sport returns to the streets… Disillusioned police recruit Khorum Choudry is already thinking of quitting when he’s...

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Loving Geordie 1st January 1970

It is August 1960 and Glue Terrace, overlooking the River Tyne, is due to be demolished. All that remains is the abandoned rubbish of former lives. The residents themselves have already been shifted.In the midst of this desolation lives...

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