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Saltblood

Saltblood
  • Author(s): Francesca De Tores
  • Location(s): Caribbean, Netherlands, Plymouth
  • Genre(s): Historical, Adventure
  • Era(s): 17th Century

In a rented room outside Plymouth in 1685, a daughter is born as her half-brother is dying. Her mother makes a decision: Mary will become Mark, and Ma will continue to collect his inheritance money. Mary’s dual existence as...

The Retreat

The Retreat
  • Author(s): Sarah Pearse
  • Location(s): South Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This is a warning for all our guests at the wellness retreat. A woman’s body has been found at the bottom of the cliff beneath the yoga pavilion. We believe her death was a tragic accident, though DS Elin...

Whatever it Takes

Whatever it Takes
  • Author(s): Adele Parks
  • Location(s): Dartmouth, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Eloise Hamilton is a Londoner born and bred, so it is a momentous day when she reluctantly agrees to uproot to Dartmouth, leaving behind her perfect world so her husband can finally live in his. There are compensations, however....

Six Weeks by the Sea

Six Weeks by the Sea
  • Author(s): Paula Byrne
  • Location(s): Sidmouth
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

Summer 1801. Sidmouth, England. The Austen Family descends upon a fashionable Georgian seaside resort in Devonshire for a six-week holiday. Jane’s brother, Frank, is on leave from the Royal Navy, and dearly wishes to unite his sister with his...

The Gilded Fan

The Gilded Fan
  • Author(s): Christina Courtenay
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, Nagasaki, Plymouth
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1640s

How do you start a new life, leaving behind all you love? It’s 1641, and when Midori Kumashiro, the orphaned daughter of a warlord, is told she has to leave Japan or die, she has no choice but to...

The Scarlet Kimono

The Scarlet Kimono
  • Author(s): Christina Courtenay
  • Location(s): Japan, Plymouth
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1600s

Abducted by a Samurai warlord in 17th-century Japan what happens when fear turns to love? England, 1611, and young Hannah Marston envies her brother’s adventurous life. But when she stows away on a merchant ship, her powers of endurance...

A Crime Through Time (Miss Darcy investigates)

A Crime Through Time (Miss Darcy investigates)
  • Author(s): Amelia Blackwell
  • Location(s): Derbyshire, Plymouth
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery

The gripping debut from Amelia Blackwell, A Crime Through Time is the start of a quirky series where Jane Austen, time travel and crime collide. Pemberley, 1799. When Miss Georgiana Darcy attempts to escape an unwanted marriage proposal, she...

Arctic Star

Arctic Star
  • Author(s): Tom Palmer, Tom Clohosy Cole (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Plymouth, Russia
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1943, WW2

Multi-award-winning author Tom Palmer returns with a thrilling naval adventure inspired by the incredible history of the Second World War Arctic convoys. Winter 1943. Teenagers Frank, Joseph and Stephen are Royal Navy recruits on their first mission at sea...

Barefoot on the Cobbles – a Devon tragedy

Barefoot on the Cobbles – a Devon tragedy
  • Author(s): Janet Few
  • Location(s): Clovelly, Bideford, Bucks Mills, Torquay
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

In the euphoria of the armistice a young woman lay dying. Daisy had grown up, barefoot on the cobbles, in a village on the rugged North Devon coast; she was mindful of the perils of the uncertain sea. Her...

Death Ship of Dartmouth

Death Ship of Dartmouth
  • Author(s): Michael Jecks
  • Location(s): Dartmouth
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Medieval

In Dartmouth, a man is found lying dead in the road. But the inhabitants of this little haven dismiss his death as a drunken accident, their attention turned to more worrying matters – piracy. A ship, the St John,...

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