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Blogs in January 1970

Route 66 1st January 1970

Billy Connolly, music-lover, biker, and scourge of the beige and the bland the world over, has dreamed about taking a trip on the legendary Route 66 since he first heard Chuck Berry belting out one of the greatest rock...

We need New Names 1st January 1970

‘To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. Everybody wants to be the USA and Britain and Canada and Australia and Switzerland and them. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq,...

Digital Fortress 1st January 1970

Part set in Sevilla, this is the novel about the NSA’s invincible code-breaking machine encountering a mysterious code it cannot break. Call in Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician and cryptogrpher. Her discovery sends shock waves through the corridors...

Wichita 1st January 1970

The novel begins with Lewis’s return to his mother’s home in Wichita, Kan., from New York, where he has just graduated from Columbia. His pompous professor father, Virgil, expects him to attend graduate school, though Lewis is unsure of...

The Snow Child 1st January 1970

A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska and inspiration from a Russian fairytale Jack and Mabel have staked everything on making a fresh start for themselves in a homestead ‘at the world’s edge’ in the...