The Doll Princess 1st January 1970
Imoved to Manchester in 1998, two years after The Doll Princess is set. While I recognise the areas – and accents – in Tom Benn’s debut novel, the immediate aftermath of the 1996 IRA bomb is something I never...
Blogs in January 1970
What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An Odyssey Through 1950s Suburbia 1st January 1970
Michele Hanson grew up an ‘oddball tomboy disappointment’ in a Jewish family in Ruislip in the 1950s – a suburban, Metroland idyll of neat lawns, bridge parties and Martini socials. Yet this shopfront of respectability masked a multitude of...
The Season Ticket 1st January 1970
Once you have the rhythm of the Geordie dialect, you will be well away! Tulloch is interested in humanizing the inhabitants of modern Britain’s slums and ghettos and in this book via Gerry and Sewell, two teenage boys living...
Jackdaw Summer 1st January 1970
A long hot summer – A wild boy – An abandoned baby – An act of violence Every summer Liam and Max roam the wild countryside of Northumberland – but this year things are different. One hot summer’s day...
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