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Barefoot on the Cobbles – a Devon tragedy

Barefoot on the Cobbles – a Devon tragedy
  • Author(s): Janet Few
  • Location(s): Clovelly, Bideford, Bucks Mills, Torquay
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

In the euphoria of the armistice a young woman lay dying. Daisy had grown up, barefoot on the cobbles, in a village on the rugged North Devon coast; she was mindful of the perils of the uncertain sea. Her...

Before the Dawn

Before the Dawn
  • Author(s): Emma Pass
  • Location(s): Devon, Normandy, The American South
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

When everything you hold dear is torn apart by war, can love put you back together again? It’s 1943, and the Second World War is raging. Ruby Mottram works for her local newspaper, the Bartonford Herald, typing up adverts...

Breakneck Point

Breakneck Point
  • Author(s): T Orr Munro
  • Location(s): North Devon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Evidence never lies…but people do. A gripping crime series for fans of Val McDermid, Jane Casey and Cara Hunter. CSI Ally Dymond’s commitment to justice has cost her a place on the major investigations team. After exposing corruption in...

Captor Captive

Captor Captive
  • Author(s): L J Kane
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Kidnapped. On the run. Hunted by a psychopath. What if you’re with her right to the end? Will Ellie survive? Would you? Snatched from her sadistic captor’s lair by his own getaway driver, eighteen-year-old student Ellie realises that she’s...

Chaos Calls to Chaos

Chaos Calls to Chaos
  • Author(s): M D Wigg Jay Heyes
  • Location(s): London, Devon
  • Genre(s): Comedy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A comedy about the exploits of London Curates, Chris, Ravi and Ellie and youth worker Mike, who team up with North Devon Surfer, Storm, to try and control the ambitions of the free lance surfing Archdeacon, or A.D. as...

Cod in Devon!

Cod in Devon!
  • Author(s): Sandy Fish
  • Location(s): Devon, Cornwall, Tiverton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An uplifting adventure with a touch of fantasy. (Surprisingly, it’s not about fishing!) When you find yourself in that gap between a proper job and no job at all, when the everyday is unfamiliar and the law is a...

Coming Home To Ottercombe Bay

Coming Home To Ottercombe Bay
  • Author(s): Bella Osborne
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Daisy Wickens has returned to Ottercombe Bay, the picturesque Devon town where her mother died when she was a girl. She plans to leave as soon as her great uncle’s funeral is over, but Great Uncle Reg had other...

Curves, Kisses and Chocolate Ice-Cream

Curves, Kisses and Chocolate Ice-Cream
  • Author(s): Sue Watson
  • Location(s): Appledore
  • Genre(s): Romance, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Twenty years ago, Dani fled Appledore with a broken-heart and a suitcase full of shattered dreams. Only now is she brave enough to put her past behind her and return for a summer selling homemade ice-cream and getting fit...

Dance with Fireflies

Dance with Fireflies
  • Author(s): Jane Gill
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940

Arriving in England in 1939 on a troopship from Bombay, Phyllis a young Anglo-Indian woman finds the motherland she’s always dreamed of visiting not quite what she had longed for. War is declared a few months after her arrival....

Dangerous Deception at Honeychurch Hall (book 5)

Dangerous Deception at Honeychurch Hall (book 5)
  • Author(s): Hannah Dennison
  • Location(s): South Hams, Devon
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

All’s fair in love . . . and antiques wars! Things are going well for Kat Stanford; not only is her antiques business thriving, she’s also got a new date: Piers Carew, Viscount Chawley, who owns the estate next...

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