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The Consequences of Fear

The Consequences of Fear
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Winspear
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1941

London, September 1941. Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. Hiding in the doorway of a bombed-out house, Freddie waits until the coast is clear. But when he arrives at...

The Consequences of Love

The Consequences of Love
  • Author(s): Gavanndra Hodge
  • Location(s): Tunisia, London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1990s and now

Seven-year-old Gavanndra Hodge’s life is a precarious place. Her father is a hairdresser and drug dealer to Chelsea’s most decadent inhabitants; her mother an alcoholic ex-model. So, it is up to Gavanndra to keep her little sister Candy safe....

The Convalescent Corpse

The Convalescent Corpse
  • Author(s): Nicola Slade
  • Location(s): Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Edwardian

3 teenage girls start a business and solve a murder in 1918 Hampshire town not unlike Romsey.

The Cornish Coast Murder

The Cornish Coast Murder
  • Author(s): John Bude
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s (Golden Age)

The Cornish Guest House

The Cornish Guest House
  • Author(s): Emma Burstall
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A new couple have arrived in Tremarnock, but will these glamorous strangers fit into village life? Tremarnock is a small fishing village, crowded with holidaymakers in the summer, but a sleepy Cornish backwater at other times of the year....

The Cornish Hotel by the Sea

The Cornish Hotel by the Sea
  • Author(s): Karen King
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Ellie Truman’s widowed mum is struggling to keep Gwel Teg, the family hotel in Cornwall, afloat. Ellie is determined to do everything in her power to help her, even if that means moving back to the sleepy Cornish village...

The Cottage in a Cornish Cove

The Cottage in a Cornish Cove
  • Author(s): Cass Grafton
  • Location(s): The West Country, Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Orphaned as a baby and raised by uncaring relatives, much of Anna Redding’s happiness as a child came from the long summer holidays spent with an elderly family friend, Aunt Meg, in the coastal village of Polkerran. With Aunt...

The Cottage of Curiosities

The Cottage of Curiosities
  • Author(s): Celia Anderson
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tucked away amongst the winding, cobbled streets of Pengelly in Cornwall, the old stone cottage on Memory Lane is full of secrets. Brimming with trinkets and treasures, there are thousands of stories hidden within its walls. Fifty-four-year-old Grace Clarke...

The Cottage of New Beginnings

The Cottage of New Beginnings
  • Author(s): Suzanne Snow
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One crumbling cottage. One broken heart. A chance to start over? When Annie returns to Thorndale, the village where she spent much of her childhood, she’s looking for a new start. All she wants to do is fix up...

The Cottage on Wildflower Lane

The Cottage on Wildflower Lane
  • Author(s): Liz Davies
  • Location(s): Worcestershire
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Esther’s life isn’t perfect (whose is?) – but she’s happy enough living in her little flat with her boyfriend, Josh. But that’s about to change. Bored out of her mind in work, she wishes that something, anything, would happen...

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