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The Memory Garden

The Memory Garden
  • Author(s): Rachel Hore
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various, modern

Lamorna Cove – a tiny bay in Cornwall, picturesque, unspoilt. A hundred years ago it was the haunt of a colony of artists. Today, Mel Pentreath hopes it is a place where she can escape the pain of her...

The Path to the Sea

The Path to the Sea
  • Author(s): Liz Fenwick
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Boskenna, the beautiful, imposing house standing on the Cornish cliffs, means something different to each of the Trewin women. For Joan, as a glamorous young wife in the 1960s, it was a paradise where she and her husband could...

The Runaway Year

The Runaway Year
  • Author(s): Shani Struthers
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Dumped by her hotshot boyfriend and boss, Layla Lewis quits her job and heads to Trecastle in North Cornwall to house-sit for a friend-of-a-friend. Trecastle isn’t new to her; it’s a place where she holidayed regularly with her now-estranged...

The Saffron Trail

The Saffron Trail
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Marrakech, Morocco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Once, there was a girl who loved saffron. She loved its secrets, its mystery, and best of all, she loved its hint of magic. After the death of her beloved mother, Nell travels from rural Cornwall to the colour...

The Shell Seekers

The Shell Seekers
  • Author(s): Rosamunde Pilcher
  • Location(s): Cornwall, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Artist’s daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she truly loved. She has brought up three children – and...

The Visitor

The Visitor
  • Author(s): Katherine Stansfield
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1880s onwards

He turns and waves, twenty feet or so away… she can’t swim as strongly as usual. She can taste blood again. Nicholas bobs where he is, letting her catch up. Her nightdress blooms around her like a sail. She...

The White Hare

The White Hare
  • Author(s): Jane Johnson
  • Location(s): Penwith
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1954

In a valley steeped in legend lies an abandoned house where Edens may be lost, found and remade… The White Valley in the far west of Cornwall cuts deeply through bluebell woods down to the sea. The house above...

Time Out of Mind

Time Out of Mind
  • Author(s): Shirley Wright
  • Location(s): Cornwall, St Ives
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Faced with the apparent wreck of her life – two deaths which haunt her, a failing marriage and a soulless job – Rose Little flees London for Penmaris, a quiet Cornish cottage where she plans to paint and consider...

Tregunna

Tregunna
  • Author(s): Carla Vermaat
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st century

In a farmhouse on the Camel estuary in Cornwall, a 5-year old girl finds her parents brutally slaughtered. Fifteen years later the house is deserted and the killing still remains a mystery. Then the body of a 50-year old...

Trembleath

Trembleath
  • Author(s): Ruth Shedwick
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Amelia Scott is a young woman trying to re-build her life in Southern England following a disastrous relationship. It was going to be an adventure, but when there’s news of a young girl found dead and another goes missing,...

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