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A Killing At Smugglers Cove

A Killing At Smugglers Cove
  • Author(s): Michelle Salter
  • Location(s): Dawlish, Devon, Exeter, Teignmouth
  • Genre(s): Historical, Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

Wartime secrets, smugglers’ caves, skeletal remains… And the holiday’s only just begun… July 1923 – Iris Woodmore travels to Devon with her friends Percy Baverstock and Millicent Nightingale for her father’s wedding to Katherine Keats. But when Millicent uncovers...

A Match Made in Devon

A Match Made in Devon
  • Author(s): Cathy Bramley
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nina has always dreamed of being a star. Unfortunately her agent thinks she’s more girl-next-door than leading lady and her acting career isn’t going quite as planned. Then, after a series of very public blunders and to escape a...

A Meeting of a Different Kind

A Meeting of a Different Kind
  • Author(s): Linda MacDonald
  • Location(s): London, Devon, Isles of Scilly
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

Set in SE London and Devon with a chapter on the Isles of Scilly When archaeologist Edward Harvey’s wife Felicity inherits almost a million, she gives up her job, buys a restaurant and, as a devotee of Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall,...

A Perfect Square

A Perfect Square
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): The Dandenongs, Devon, Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When pianist Ginny Smith moves back to her mother’s house in Sassafras after her breakup with the degenerate Garth, synaesthetic and eccentric artist Harriet Brassington-Smythe contrives a creative collaboration to lift her daughter’s spirits: an exhibition of paintings and...

A Summer of Surprises and an Unexpected Affair

A Summer of Surprises and an Unexpected Affair
  • Author(s): Jan Ellis
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

An Unexpected Affair After her divorce, Eleanor Mace decides to begin a new life running a quirky bookshop in a quiet corner of Devon. She adores her seaside home in Combemouth and her bookshop is a hit and yet...

A Wild & True Relation

A Wild & True Relation
  • Author(s): Kim Sherwood
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): From the eighteenth century to the present day

A thrilling feminist adventure story of smuggling and myth-making. ‘This book is a rarity – a novel as remarkable for the vigour of the storytelling as for its literary ambition. Kim Sherwood is a writer of capacity, potency and...

All Around The Year

All Around The Year
  • Author(s): Liz Shakespeare
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 21st century

These twelve poignant stories, deeply rooted in the Devon landscape, are each linked to a month of the year from January through to December. You will be transported from a sleepy village square to the wilds of Exmoor and...

And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None
  • Author(s): Agatha Christie
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1939

1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they...

Archdeacon Goes Live (Full of bright ideas and only 46!)

Archdeacon Goes Live (Full of bright ideas and only 46!)
  • Author(s): J Ewins, L Telfer
  • Location(s): London, Devon
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Romance
  • Era(s): 2019-2020

A hilarious story starring A.D. the Archdeacon, as in changed times, he reflects on the previous year’s progress of his mission to revamp religious broadcasting and take the church out of the building with the help of his outstandingly...

Arctic Star

Arctic Star
  • Author(s): Tom Palmer, Tom Clohosy Cole (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Plymouth, Russia
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1943, WW2

Multi-award-winning author Tom Palmer returns with a thrilling naval adventure inspired by the incredible history of the Second World War Arctic convoys. Winter 1943. Teenagers Frank, Joseph and Stephen are Royal Navy recruits on their first mission at sea...

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