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Eloise

Eloise
  • Author(s): Judy Finnigan
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

After her best friend Eloise dies from breast cancer, Cathy is devastated. But then Cathy begins to have disturbing dreams that imply Eloise’s death was not all it seems. With a history of depression, Cathy is only just recovering...

Epiphany – THE SILVERING

Epiphany – THE SILVERING
  • Author(s): Sonya Deanna Terry
  • Location(s): Christchurch, Cornwall, Oslo, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Modern, Pre-History, 18th century

A RETURN TO THE CURRENCY OF KINDNESS The story-within-a-story continues and a sequence of stunning revelations unfolds in Epiphany’s gripping conclusion. The 2008 Global Financial Crisis is looming, a time of losses for some in Rosetta’s circle, and the...

Notes From an Exhibition

Notes From an Exhibition
  • Author(s): Patrick Gale
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction

With a lightness of touch, Patrick Gale delves into the link between creativity and mental health – the essential themes of art, death and bi-polar disorder. When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies she leaves behind an extraordinary body of...

Sugar and Spice

Sugar and Spice
  • Author(s): Angela Britnell
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Way to a Hero’s Heart … Fiery, workaholic Lily Redman is sure of two things: that she knows good food and that she always gets what she wants. And what she wants more than anything is to make...

The Beach Cafe

The Beach Cafe
  • Author(s): Lucy Diamond
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Evie, mid 30s finds herself in a bit of a rut. Her sisters have got themselves ‘well sorted’ lives. Aunt Jo is killed in a traffic accident and has left her cafe in Cornwall to Evie and she takes...

The Cornish House

The Cornish House
  • Author(s): Liz Fenwick
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When artist Maddie inherits a house in Cornwall shortly after the death of her husband, she hopes it will be the fresh start she and her step-daughter Hannah desperately need. Trevenen is beautiful but neglected, a rambling house steeped...

The House of the Wicked

The House of the Wicked
  • Author(s): D M Mitchell
  • Location(s): Porthgarrow
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

1880: Stephen Denning is an artist arriving in Porthgarrow. It is an isolated Cornish fishing community, largely untouched by the modern, developing Victorian world, hanging onto its old traditions, superstitions and beliefs – a community that lives with a...

The Long Weekend

The Long Weekend
  • Author(s): Veronica Henry
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Pennfleet
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In a gorgeous quay-side hotel in Cornwall, the long weekend is just beginning… Claire Marlowe owns ‘The Townhouse by the Sea’ with Luca, the hotel’s charismatic chef. She ensures everything runs smoothly – until an unexpected arrival checks in...

The Sleeper

The Sleeper
  • Author(s): Emily Barr
  • Location(s): Cornwall, London
  • Era(s): Modern

Everyone thinks she has a happy life in Cornwall, married to the devoted Sam, but in fact she is desperately bored. When she is offered a new job that involves commuting to London by sleeper train, she meets Guy...

The Unforgotten

The Unforgotten
  • Author(s): Laura Powell
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s (mainly)

Summer, 1956. Fifteen-year-old Betty Broadbent has never left the Cornish fishing village of St Steele or ventured far beyond the walls of the boarding house run by her erratic mother. But when the London press pack descends on her...

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