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The Feud

The Feud
  • Author(s): Amanda James
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Present day

Matthew Trevelyar leaves his job in London to return to his Cornish roots in the village of St Agnes. After losing his wife to leukaemia, he wants to make a fresh start. His new life is going well until...

The Four Swans: A Novel of Cornwall 1795-1797 (Poldark Book 6)

The Four Swans: A Novel of Cornwall 1795-1797 (Poldark Book 6)
  • Author(s): Winston Graham
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1790s

Cornwall 1795-1797. Although Ross Poldark – now something of a war hero – seems secure in his hard-won prosperity, a new dilemma faces him in the sudden infatuation of a young naval officer for his wife Demelza. All four...

The Golden Rule

The Golden Rule
  • Author(s): Amanda Craig
  • Location(s): Cornwall, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Hannah is invited into the First-Class carriage of the London to Penzance train by Jinni, she walks into a spider’s web. Now a poor young single mother, Hannah once escaped Cornwall to go to university. But once she...

The Haunting

The Haunting
  • Author(s): Alex Bell
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Some curses grow stronger with time… People say that all Cornish inns are haunted, but the Waterwitch’s history is particularly chilling. Built from the salvaged timber of a cursed ship, the guest house’s dark secrets go further back than...

The Haunting of Aveline Jones

The Haunting of Aveline Jones
  • Author(s): Phil Hickes
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Aveline Jones loves reading ghost stories, so a dreary half-term becomes much more exciting when she discovers a spooky old book. Not only are the stories spine-tingling, but it once belonged to Primrose Penberthy, who vanished mysteriously, never to...

The Haven

The Haven
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

SOME LEGENDS NEVER DIE… Irish newsreader Isolde Malone has a face many would recognise; in fact, she can’t walk through the streets of Dublin without bumping into a horde of fans, all of whom want their picture taken with...

The Hidden Graves of St Ives

The Hidden Graves of St Ives
  • Author(s): Sally Rigby
  • Location(s): St Ives
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(A Cornwall Murder Mystery Book 2 Her eyes flutter open, but she can only make out shadows. She winces as tight cords dig into the soft skin of her arms, immobilising her. Where am I? The last thing she...

The Hidden Years

The Hidden Years
  • Author(s): Rachel Hore
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): B0BQ4QM6H9

When talented musician Gray Robinson persuades Belle to abandon her university studies and follow him to Silverwood, home to an artistic community on the Cornish coast, Belle happily agrees even though they’ve only just met. She knows she is...

The Iron Road

The Iron Road
  • Author(s): Jane Jackson
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1900s

It’s 1865 and the Great Western Railway has spread across Cornwall, changing the face of the countryside with earthworks and viaducts. Now a new line in under construction. The invading army of navvies has many women but few wives....

The Lake House

The Lake House
  • Author(s): Kate Morton
  • Location(s): London, Polperro
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century to present

A missing child . . . June 1933, and the Edevane family’s country house, Loeanneth, is polished and gleaming, ready for the much-anticipated Midsummer Eve party. Alice Edevane, sixteen years old and a budding writer, is especially excited. Not...

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