Blogs in January 1970

Gods without Men 1st January 1970

This novel takes you through various times, from 1778 up to 2009, and a number of characters who all intersect through the ages and a place in the Californian desert. A four-year-old autistic boy, Raj Matharu, disappears in the...

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Daughter of Fortune 1st January 1970

A magnificent sweeping tale from the international bestselling author of ‘The House of the Spirits’. Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the nineteenth century, this magnificent romance tells the story of English foundling...

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Powers of Arrest 1st January 1970

Former detective Will Borders uses a cane to walk following an operation, is re-united with his pain nurse from hopsital as he investigates copycat murders.

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Walden 1st January 1970

One of the great books of American letters and a masterpiece of reflective philosophizing. Accounts of Thoreau’s daily life on the shores of Walden Pond outside Concord, Massachusetts, are interwoven with musings on the virtues of self-reliance and individual...

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The Promise 1st January 1970

1900. Young pianist Catherine Wainwright flees the fashionable town of Dayton, Ohio in the wake of a terrible scandal. Heartbroken and facing destitution, she finds herself striking up correspondence with a childhood admirer, the recently widowed Oscar Williams. In...

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