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The Swordfish and the Star

The Swordfish and the Star
  • Author(s): Gavin Knight
  • Location(s): Penwith
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Environmental
  • Era(s): Various

The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends. In The Swordfish and the Star Gavin Knight takes us into this huddle of grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning of the twenty-first century....

The Tenth Gift

The Tenth Gift
  • Author(s): Jane Johnson
  • Location(s): Morocco, Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 17th Century and 2000s

Jane Johnson’s The Tenth Gift is an wonderfully escapist page-turner set in seventeenth century Cornwall and Morocco,based on spine-tinglingly shocking historical fact, with a romantic hidden love story at its heart. His parting gift to her was a new...

The Thief’s Daughter

The Thief’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Victoria Cornwall
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Hide from the thief-taker, for if he finds you, he will take you away … Eighteenth-century Cornwall is crippled by debt and poverty, while the gibbet casts a shadow of fear over the land. Yet, when night falls, free...

The Twisted Sword (Poldark Book 11)

The Twisted Sword (Poldark Book 11)
  • Author(s): Winston Graham
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1815

Cornwall 1815. Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so hard to achieve. For Ross has little option but to accept the summons – and travel to Paris...

The Wanderers

The Wanderers
  • Author(s): Tim Pears
  • Location(s): Devon, Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Pre-WW1

The beautiful, questing second novel in Tim Pears’ acclaimed West Country trilogy 1912. Leo is on a journey. Aged thirteen and banished from the secluded farm of his childhood, he travels through Devon, grazing on berries and sleeping in...

The Wave

The Wave
  • Author(s): Virginia Moffatt
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A devastating tsunami is heading towards the Cornish coast. With no early warning and limited means of escape, many people won’t get away in time. While the terrifying reality of the news hits home, one young woman posts a...

The Wild Silence

The Wild Silence
  • Author(s): Raynor Winn
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After walking 630 miles homeless along The Salt Path, the windswept and wild English coastline now feels like their home. And despite Moth’s terminal diagnosis, against all medical odds,...

The Wreck of the Zanzibar

The Wreck of the Zanzibar
  • Author(s): Michael Morpurgo
  • Location(s): Isles of Scilly
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1907

A gripping children’s story from War Horse author and former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo. “We all knew what was going to happen. We’d seen it before. A ship about to founder staggers before she falls. A huge wave broke...

There’s Something About Cornwall

There’s Something About Cornwall
  • Author(s): Daisy James
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A knight in a shining camper van! Life is far from picture perfect for food photographer, Emilie Roberts. Not only has her ex-boyfriend cheated on her, he’s also stolen her dream assignment to beautiful Venice! Instead, Emilie is heading to the...

To Fetch a Felon

To Fetch a Felon
  • Author(s): Jennifer Hawkins
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Emma Reed and her beloved Corgi move from London to Cornwall with the dream of opening a tea shop–but first they’ll have to collar a criminal in the first book in a charming new series. Emma leaves London and...

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