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The Lamorna Reach

The Lamorna Reach
  • Author(s): Joy V Sheridan
  • Location(s): West Indies, Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Turn of 18th-19th Centuries

The Lamorna Reach presents a Zola-esque tableau of raw, elemental life in Cornwall at the time of the Napoleonic wars. Issy Penhalligan, the heroine, is incredibly beautiful and talented, but these qualities do not secure her a happy, comfortable...

The Last Mrs. Summers

The Last Mrs. Summers
  • Author(s): Rhys Bowen
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lady Georgiana Rannoch is just back from her honeymoon with dashing Darcy O’Mara when a friend in need pulls her into a twisted Gothic tale of betrayal, deception and, most definitely, murder. . . . I am a bit...

The Last Train from Paris

The Last Train from Paris
  • Author(s): Juliet Greenwood
  • Location(s): Alsace, Cornwall, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

For Iris, each visit to her mother in St Mabon’s Cove, Cornwall has been the same – a serene escape from the city. But today, as she breathes in the salt air on the doorstep of her beloved childhood...

The Lighthouse

The Lighthouse
  • Author(s): P D James
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Combe Island off the Cornish coast is a restful retreat for the rich and the powerful. But the peace of the island is violated when one of its distinguished visitors is murdered. Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve...

The Long Road from Kandahar

The Long Road from Kandahar
  • Author(s): Sara MacDonald
  • Location(s): Lashkar Gah, Cornwall, Swat Valley
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The hand of friendship can span a thousand miles… Pakistan Among the almond orchards of the Swat Valley, Zamir tends goats with his son, Raza. He must make a heartbreaking decision if he is to protect his youngest child...

The Lost Girls of Penzance

The Lost Girls of Penzance
  • Author(s): Sally Rigby
  • Location(s): Penzance
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Cornwall Murder Mystery Book 1 The pale outline of bones in the dew-laden grass catches and holds Lauren’s gaze. In the distance, she can hear the faint sound of crashing waves and the eerie screech of seagulls. Whose...

The Loving Cup: A Novel of Cornwall 1813-1815 (Poldark Book 10)

The Loving Cup: A Novel of Cornwall 1813-1815 (Poldark Book 10)
  • Author(s): Winston Graham
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1813

Cornwall 1813. A silver cup lies half-forgotten in a dank cave, amongst a pile of stolen goods. Yet the tiny vessel and its inscription Amor gignit amorem haunts the lives of the still-feuding Poldark and Warleggan families, as Ross,...

The Man Next Door

The Man Next Door
  • Author(s): E M Scott
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Retired police detective inspector Thomas Maitland has rented a house in Cornwall; he’s going to paint his way to recovery from the experiences of the spring. A local woman with an intriguingly expensive collection of modern art wants to...

The Many

The Many
  • Author(s): Wyl Menmuir
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 Timothy Buchannan buys an abandoned house on the edge of an isolated village on the coast, sight unseen. When he sees the state of it he questions the wisdom of his move,...

The Miller’s Dance: A Novel of Cornwall 1812-1813 (Poldark Book 9)

The Miller’s Dance: A Novel of Cornwall 1812-1813 (Poldark Book 9)
  • Author(s): Winston Graham
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1812/13

Cornwall 1812. At Nampara, the Poldark family finds the new year brings involvement in more than one unexpected venture. For Ross and Demelza there is some surprising – and worrying – news. And Clowance, newly returned from her London...

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