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Blogs in January 1970

Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore 1st January 1970

A New York Times bestseller, Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore is an entirely charming and lovable first novel of mysterious books and dusty bookshops: it is a witty and delightful love-letter to both the old book world and the new....

Good Neighbors 1st January 1970

Set in Queens, NYC. This book has also been published as Acts of Violence. At the centre is the brutal stabbing of Katrina Marino – and precept is based on the real life murder of Catherine Genovese, murdered in...

Salt City 1st January 1970

Syracuse, upstate New York. The “Salt City.” An apartment building on the edge of The Projects – and Anne Malloy dies, flying out of a sixth floor window, an apparent suicide, while Mark Cornell watches. Mark was there for...

A Land More Kind than Home 1st January 1970

One Sunday nine-year-old Jess Hall watches in horror as his autistic brother is smothered during a healing service in the mountains of North Carolina. Wiley Cash uses this haunting image – inspired by a horrific true event – to...

The Lovely Bones 1st January 1970

On her way home from school on a snowy December day, 14-year-old Susie Salmon is lured into a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold’s haunting and heartbreaking...