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Amazing Grace Adams

Amazing Grace Adams
  • Author(s): Fran Littlewood
  • Location(s): London, Cornwall, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Grace Adams is one bad day away from saving her life. One hot summer day, stuck in traffic on her way to pick up the cake for her daughter’s sixteenth birthday party, Grace Adams snaps. She doesn’t scream or...

The Butterfly Box

The Butterfly Box
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Chile, Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Federica Campione adores her father. No matter that Ramon, a distinguished traveller and writer, spends months away from their home on the exotic Chilean coast; as soon as he’s back, his daughter has eyes for no one but him....

The Curse of Penryth Hall

The Curse of Penryth Hall
  • Author(s): Jess Armstrong
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

1922. Ruby Vaughn has made a life for herself running a bookshop alongside octogenarian Mr Owen. When she finds herself at Penryth Hall, deep in the Cornish countryside, painful memories emerge of her lost friendship with Tamsyn, now married...

The Death of Her

The Death of Her
  • Author(s): Debbie Howells
  • Location(s): Padstow, Epphaven Cove
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Early 2000s and present

A woman’s body is discovered on a Cornish farm, battered and left for dead in a maize field. Airlifted to hospital, her life hanging in the balance, no one’s sure who she is. Three days later she comes round,...

Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime

Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime
  • Author(s): Leonie Swann, Amy Bojang (Translator)
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As winter begins to bite at Sunset Hall, Agnes Sharp is grudgingly pleased to discover that one of her fellow OAP housemates has won a luxury holiday to a secluded Cornish hotel called the Eden. The incredible menu, spa...

59 Memory Lane

59 Memory Lane
  • Author(s): Celia Anderson
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

May Rosevere has reached the grand old age of one-hundred-and-ten, thanks to several slices of toast with butter every morning, a glass (or two) of port, and the wonders of the Cornish sea air – or so she tells...

A Clattering Beneath the Woods

A Clattering Beneath the Woods
  • Author(s): Sally J Hubbard
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Devon
  • Genre(s): Children, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Present

Polly has enjoyed an idyllic life but now everything is changing. Her family is in danger of losing their home in the Tamar Valley and the beloved woodland which surrounds it. But then a very peculiar encounter introduces her...

A Cornish Affair

A Cornish Affair
  • Author(s): Jo Lambert
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Even in your hometown, you can feel like an outsider … In the close-knit community of Carrenporth in Cornwall everyone knows everyone else’s business. Luke Carrack is only too aware of this. He’s been away for two years but...

A Cornish Christmas

A Cornish Christmas
  • Author(s): Lily Graham
  • Location(s): Fowey
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nestled in the Cornish village of Cloudsea, sits Sea Cottage – the perfect place for some Christmas magic … At last Ivy is looking forward to Christmas. She and her husband Stuart have moved to their perfect little cottage by the sea –...

A Cornish Christmas at the Farmhouse Bakery

A Cornish Christmas at the Farmhouse Bakery
  • Author(s): Linn B Halton
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Newlyweds Ivy and Adam Taylor have put their heart and soul into building their own businesses, but when circumstances conspire against them, it all comes crashing down. Could a Christmas miracle be just around the corner when best friend...

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