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The Secret Beach

The Secret Beach
  • Author(s): Veronica Henry
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Twenty years. One secret. A promise never to tell… Nikki finally owns the little coastguard cottage of her dreams – and it’s a few steps away from the hidden beach that means so much to her. But when a...

The Burning Sands

The Burning Sands
  • Author(s): Carole Lehr Johnson
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 17th century Cornwall

Can an old tavern’s secrets free two women from their pasts? After a year, Olivia Griffin still drowns in grief from losing her beloved husband in a tragic accident. To cope with his death, she loses herself in her...

Shock Therapy

Shock Therapy
  • Author(s): Angus Blair
  • Location(s): London, Cornwall, Ireland, Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Henry Bradbury’s life is in free fall. His marriage has failed, he’s about to lose his City job, and he now finds himself dangerously out of his depth as an unlikely agent of the British secret intelligence services. His...

The Last Train from Paris

The Last Train from Paris
  • Author(s): Juliet Greenwood
  • Location(s): Alsace, Cornwall, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

For Iris, each visit to her mother in St Mabon’s Cove, Cornwall has been the same – a serene escape from the city. But today, as she breathes in the salt air on the doorstep of her beloved childhood...

Seven Summers

Seven Summers
  • Author(s): Paige Toon
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two epic love stories. One impossible choice. The stunning new novel from Paige Toon. Six summers ago Liv and Finn meet working in a bar on the rugged Cornish coastline, their futures full of promise. When a night of...

A Cornish Christmas at the Farmhouse Bakery

A Cornish Christmas at the Farmhouse Bakery
  • Author(s): Linn B Halton
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Newlyweds Ivy and Adam Taylor have put their heart and soul into building their own businesses, but when circumstances conspire against them, it all comes crashing down. Could a Christmas miracle be just around the corner when best friend...

Daughters of Cornwall

Daughters of Cornwall
  • Author(s): Fern Britton
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1919 forward to 2020

Love can last a lifetime. But can it last three? 1918 World War One is over. But Clara’s fight for her family is only just beginning… 1947 Clara’s daughter, Hannah, is in love for the first time – but...

The Shell House Detectives

The Shell House Detectives
  • Author(s): Emylia Hall
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Shell House Detectives Mystery, Book 1 Welcome to the coastal paradise of Porthpella, where murder lurks among the dunes… Late one night, a distraught young man knocks on the door of retired and recently widowed Ally Bright’s remote...

The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot

The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot
  • Author(s): Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
  • Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century

The adventure of the devil’s foot by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in Cornwall one spring , but the holiday ends with a bizarre event. Another classic adventure from Sherlock holmes, a great...

The Swordfish and the Star

The Swordfish and the Star
  • Author(s): Gavin Knight
  • Location(s): Penwith
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Environmental
  • Era(s): Various

The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends. In The Swordfish and the Star Gavin Knight takes us into this huddle of grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning of the twenty-first century....

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