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A Very Big House in the Country
- Location(s): Devon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
For one long hot summer in Devon, three families are sharing one very big house in the country. The Herreras: made up of two tired parents, three grumbling children and one promiscuous dog; the Littles: he’s loaded (despite two...
- Location(s): Dartmoor
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back to childhood
Steeped in its bleak and beautiful landscape, Mortford is a place of secrets and memories: of bitter divisions and shattered dreams. Returning to this Dartmoor village where he grew up, Gabriel attempts to come to terms with what he...
- Location(s): Devon, Warwickshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Especially Lizzy Kingham. But this year, she is feeling unloved and underappreciated by her family. The present-buying, decorating and food shopping have all been left to her. So she wonders . . . what would happen if she ran...
- Location(s): Cornwall, Devon, London, Snowdonia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1900s, Modern
2011 Carys agrees, with mixed feelings, to look after her mother after a fall. This decision unsettles everything – her job, her plans, her relationship with Jack. Once home she is drawn back into village life, into her family history...
- Location(s): Devon, Portugal
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When Charlotte Pascoe returns to Devon to work with her father in the family boatyard, she is horrified to discover that he is about to sell the site to Raphael da Silva, a property developer. Unable to pursue her...
- Location(s): Sidmouth
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1800s
Summer 1801. Sidmouth, England. The Austen Family descends upon a fashionable Georgian seaside resort in Devonshire for a six-week holiday. Jane’s brother, Frank, is on leave from the Royal Navy, and dearly wishes to unite his sister with his...
- Location(s): Exeter, Lyme Regis
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Mid 1800s
Sarah Woodruff is the woman of the title, the French Lieutenant’s Woman, also known as the “Tragedy”. She lives in the coastal town of Lyme Regis, as a disgraced woman, supposedly abandoned by a French naval officer named Varguennes,...
- Location(s): Amsterdam, Nagasaki, Plymouth
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1640s
How do you start a new life, leaving behind all you love? It’s 1641, and when Midori Kumashiro, the orphaned daughter of a warlord, is told she has to leave Japan or die, she has no choice but to...
- Location(s): Dartmoor
- Genre(s): Fiction
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world’s greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast “with blazing eyes and dripping jaws” which...
- Location(s): Japan, Plymouth
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1600s
Abducted by a Samurai warlord in 17th-century Japan what happens when fear turns to love? England, 1611, and young Hannah Marston envies her brother’s adventurous life. But when she stows away on a merchant ship, her powers of endurance...
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