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- Location(s): Bideford
- Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): World War 2
Cozy crime with a sinister twist in wartime England. While reluctant wartime detective Bob Robbins is enjoying a few days’ holiday on the North Devon coast he becomes involved in a shooting incident on a derelict farm. An elderly...
- Location(s): London, Devon
- Genre(s): Fiction, Children, Historical
- Era(s): WW2, 1939
It is 1939. When Lyla is evacuated from her home in London to her great-aunt’s enormous house in the West Country, she expects to be lonely. She has never been to school nor had any friends, and her parents...
- Location(s): Naples, Exeter
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary / Renaissance
When a song by the mad composer, Carlo Gesualdo, is discovered in Exeter Museum, trouble descends on the group asked to sing it. Lisa is full of enthusiasm at first, but she soon becomes convinced the song is cursed....
- Location(s): Dartmouth, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern (with references to WW2)
When Katie, redundant from her media job, accepts Mattie’s offer to take over her shop, A Good Yarn, in Dartmouth, she expects her life to be busy and unexciting. But with an American film crew in town intent on...
Sins as Red as Scarlet: the true story of a Devon Town in Turmoil
- Location(s): Devon
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Time Slip
- Era(s): C17th and present
It is 1682. Across the land, the Age of Reason has begun; scientific thought is ousting superstitious belief. The menacing days of the witchfinder have all but gone. Nevertheless, in Devon’s county town, three impoverished women from Byddeforde are...
- Location(s): Seaton, Cornwall, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Is Zenna a muse, a sleep-deprived apparition, or something much more sinister? Suffering long-term amnesia, artist Jo Mckye is ready to start a fresh, new project after the success of her debut exhibition. But the fictional subject of the...
- Location(s): Torbay
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Edwardian
Jimmy Blackbridge is the deckhand on a small sailing trawler, fishing out of Brixham, Devon in 1912. He is coming into harbour after a storm, looking on the quayside for his beloved Alice. He will have to tell her...
- Location(s): East Soar
- Genre(s): Poetry
- Era(s): Current
Award-winning poet Holly Corfield Carr’s new work is a captivating collection of poems inspired by the rich history and natural beauty of East Soar, Devon.
- Location(s): Ilfracombe
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Tawrie Gunn feels stuck. She’s spent her whole life in the same seaside town with her beloved Nana and grief-stricken mum, all of them still reeling in different ways from the tragic loss of Tawrie’s dad at sea. Desperate...
- Location(s): London, Devon, Isles of Scilly
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2012
Former classmates Edward and Marianne, now fifty-five, have experienced a turbulent few years having lost contact with each other and suffered painful disruption to their home lives. Reunited again, this time through Twitter, they set about a search for...
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