E.V. Thompson

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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1977
  • Latest Book:
    June 2015
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Full Series List in Order

An Amos Hawke Mystery

Though The Heavens May Fall (Nov-2007)
Churchyard and Hawke (Dec-2009)
Hawke's Tor (Mar-2012)

Jagos of Cornwall

1 - The Restless Sea (Feb-2002)
2 - Polrudden (Nov-2004)
3 - Mistress of Polrudden (Oct-2007)

Retallick

1 - Chase the Wind (May-1977)
2 - Ben Retallick (Mar-1981)
3 - Harvest of the Sun (Jun-1982)
4 - The Stricken Land (Jan-1987)
5 - Singing Spears (Apr-1999)
6 - Lottie Trago (Jun-1999)
7 - Ruddlemoor (Oct-2003)
8 - The Vagrant King (Aug-2006)
9 - Brothers in War (Oct-2007)
Fires of Evening (Jul-1999)

Book List in Order: 43 titles

  • Chase the Wind

    Retallick - 1

    Josh Retallick, hardy son of a respected Cornish family, and the wild Miriam, daughter of a drink-sodden copper miner, explore together the secret places and wild creatures of Bodmin Moor, unaware that fate will soon sweep them apart.Yet destiny brin...

  • Ben Retallick

    Retallick - 2

    In the tin mines of Cornwall during the first decades of the nineteenth century, death is the constant companion of the working man. Ben Retallick has grown to sturdy manhood among the miners and fisherfolk, through the hard and hungry years when bl...

  • The Music Makers

    In the troubled countryside of Ireland, the 1840s are harrowing years; the seasons when potato crops fail and the gaunt specter of hunger stalks the landscape. Against this stark world stands Liam McCabe, one-time fisherman of Kilmar, now turning his...

  • Harvest of the Sun

    Retallick - 3

    It is 1846: the ship was bound for Australia. Aboard were Josh Retallick and Miriam Thackeray, prisoners destined for the convict settlements . . . until the random hand of fate wrecked their vessel on the Skeleton Coast of South West Africa.Far from...

  • Republic!

  • The Stricken Land

    Retallick - 4

    It is 1899. A new generation has inherited the Rhodesian birthright that Dan Retallick won from the legendary king of Matabeleland. Once again, the dark clouds of conflict loom on the horizon as the blood-streaked bayonets of the Boer War encircle th...

  • Cry Once Alone

  • God's Highlander

    Fresh from ministering to a poor parish in the slums of 1830's Glasgow after a brief but distinguished career in a Scots regiment of the British army, young Reverend Wyatt Jamieson takes up the ministry of the Highland village of Eskaig. He is greete...

  • Cassie

    Sixteen, pregnant, and brave beyond her years, Cassie refuses to remain patiently at home, praying for the return of her soldier lover from war. Instead she leaves the small Cornish fishing village of her birth and escapes to Spain - joining the bra...



  • Wychwood

  • Blue Dress Girl

    When a Chinese peasant girl is chosen as a concubine to Li Hung, Chief Customs Officer for the bustling port of Canton, her parents tell her it is a great honorbut the seedy reality is far from honorable. After an incident with a lecherous British tr...

  • Tolpuddle Woman

  • Moontide

    Local landowner John Bettison has forbidden his workers to attend church, but when curate Toby Lovell arrives in Porthluney, he is determined to bring about change. Injured during the Battle of Trafalgar, Toby is used to facing adversity but little d...

  • Mud Huts and Missionaries

    'A first class professional...' - SUNDAY TIMES 'Each story combines a rare quality of ingenuity and plausibility, with a hint of wry humour' - SEVERN HOUSE E V Thompson lived and worked in Africa at a time when it was undergoing momentous change. Yet...

  • Cast No Shadows

    South-West England, 1812. England is at war with America and when two hundred and fifty American prisoners-of-war arrive at Dartmoor prison, it is already overcrowded with French prisoners. Among the newcomers is Lieutenant Pilgrim Penn, an America...

  • Singing Spears

    Retallick - 5

    Daniel Retallick has grown to manhood during the years of flood tide in the chronicles of Africa. The son of Josh and Miriam Retallick, he settles with his wife and children on a homestead in a valley of Matabeleland.But the years are the 1880s, and...

  • Lottie Trago

    Retallick - 6

    Cornwall 1864. Josh and Miriam Retallick return home from Africa to find the chimneys smokeless, the men and women hungry, and Lottie, guarding goats on Bodmin Moor, an unmistakable Trago in looks and spirit.Josh soon takes stock of these hard times...

  • Homeland

    James Cameron -- the clan chief. Hounded by debt and scandal, he heads for the vast wilderness of Upper Canada. There he amasses a fortune that will bless future generations, but leaves a bitter memory that will curse them.

    Hugh MacCrimmon -- his b...

  • Fires of Evening

    Retallick

    Josh and Miriam Retallick and their grandson Ben seem almost part of the wild and rugged Cornish landscape of 1913. Yet a revolutionary spirit of change is sweeping across the country - and the whole of Europe - with terrifying haste.Even before the ...



  • Becky

    A novel set in a 19th century Bristol slum. This is the unlikely background for a love story that brings hope into the life of a young waif of a girl who has learnt how to survive in the filth and lawlessness of the backstreets. Befriended and loved ...

  • Somewhere a Bird Is Singing

    Life is not easy for Sally and Ruth. Alone since the death of their mother, both girls struggle to survive the hardships of life in Plymouth's docklands. Ruth, the eldest sister, does her best to look after Sally but the only way she can make money i...

  • Winds of Fortune

    Set in Cornwall in the early part of the 19th Century. Thomasina is determined to make more of her life than just to be a maid - even more so when she is raped by Sir Henry's nephew in the house she works in. She runs off with sweetheart Jeffrey and ...

  • Seek a New Dawn

    Cornwall, the 1870s. Emily Boyce, daughter of a pretentious parson, incurs her father's wrath by falling in love with young Sam Hooper, a copper miner on Bodmin Moor. So when the moorland mines fail, Emily's father seizes the opportunity to ensure th...

  • The Restless Sea

    Jagos of Cornwall - 1

    The Cornish coast of 1810 was alive with fishing boats, warships and smugglers. For Nathan Jago, a fishing business seemed the ideal place to invest his prizefighting winnings. But it wasn't all plain sailing to a wealthy future. For a start the...

  • The Lost Years

    Cornwall, 1914 - Perys Tremayne arrives at St Austell to stay with relatives at the ancient family home of Heligan House. But this is not a social visit: Perys is hoping to use his family connections to start a military career with the Duke of Cornwa...

  • Ruddlemoor

    Retallick - 7

    Josh Retallick and his wife Miriam take on an exciting new challenge as owners of Ruddlemoor china clay works on the outskirts of St Austell. But a family tragedy forces Josh to leave almost immediately. When he returns he knows that his youngest g...

  • Paths of Destiny

    Cornwall, 1854 - Alice Rowe owes everything to Reverend Alfred Markham who rescued her from a workhouse, employing her in his parsonage as a housemaid. So when he dies suddenly of a heart attack, Alice faces a fearful and uncertain future. But as on...

  • Polrudden

    Jagos of Cornwall - 2

    On a wild stormy night in 1813, Nathan Jago, drift fisherman, ex-prizefighter and lord of the manor of Polrudden, rescues a young boy from a drowning mother's arms as a French ship founders on the jagged Cornish rocks. It is an act that will profound...

  • Tomorrow Is for Ever

    For Alan Carter the greatest personal sacrifice of the Great War of 1914-18 is being called-up after only one week of marriage. Leaving his new bride is even more painful than the wound that, months later, interrupts his war at sea and sends him to ...



  • Lewin's Mead

    When artist Fergus Vincent forsakes the slums of Lewin's Mead in Bristol he leaves behind him Becky, the street urchin whom he loved and married. As he sets sail on a warship bound for mutiny-torn India, Becky is left with the secret knowledge that s...

  • Becky/The Restless Sea

    Combined for the first time are two enchanting stories from acclaimed novelist E. V. Thompson. In Becky, Ferg...

  • The Vagrant King

    Retallick - 8

    Cornish farmer Joseph Moyle's loyalty to the crown goes well rewarded - his stepson Ralf is appointed page to the future Charles II. And when Ralf takes up his post, Britain is in the midst of its most tumultuous period ever - the war between the Roy...

  • Brothers in War

    Retallick - 9

    1915: Ben Retallick is asked by a War Office friend to provide two traction engines for a secret expedition attempting to take two gunboats overland from Cape Town to Lake Tanganyika - more than 3,000 miles - to wrest control of the lake from the Ger...

  • Mistress of Polrudden

    Jagos of Cornwall - 3

    When Dewi Morgan arrives at Polrudden Manor, it is to find a disappointing welcome. She had expected to take up the position of governess to Nathan Jago's son, Beville but Nathan is determined to have a local girl for the post. It takes a dramatic ...

  • Though The Heavens May Fall

    An Amos Hawke Mystery

    It is 1856. When three men are murdered in Cornwall, Amos Hawke, a Cornish detective working from London's Scotland Yard, is sent to investigate. He finds lodgings with one of the murdered men's wives - and her daughter, Talwyn. But while Amos's rela...

  • No Less Than the Journey

    Wesley Curnow arrives in the United States in search of an uncle who is working on the mines in Missouri. Taking passage on a boat from New York bound for New Orleans, he meets up with a charismatic U.S. Marshal who is en route to the western territo...

  • Churchyard and Hawke

    An Amos Hawke Mystery

    An exciting and insightful novel of the years when the Cornwall Constabulary was in its infancy After taking a serious beating while engaged in unofficial undercover work in London's 19th century slums, Constable Tom Churchyard takes himself ...

  • The Dream Traders

    Depicting the greed, misery, and ruthlessness of the Chinese opium trade, this exciting novel illustrates how this industry has involved Britain in one of the most shameful wars of all time, just as it reached out from Hong Kong to threaten the very ...

  • Beyond the Storm

    When the fiercest storm in living memory pounds the shores of 19th century Cornwall, wrecking ships and bringing death and destruction to seafarers and coastal communities, a young girl is found, barely alive, washed up among the rocks of a remote No...



  • Hawke's Tor

    An Amos Hawke Mystery

    The third mystery of Victorian Cornwall features the detective duo of Churchyard and Hawke solving crime among magnificent landscapes and tight-knit communities

    The brutal murder of a promiscuous young wife and the disappearance of h...

  • The Bonds of Earth

    Caught between miners desperate for work and locals disapproving of change, the life of one young man caught in the cross-fires of a brewing storm is irrevocably altered

    In 1837, when rich deposits of copper ore are discovered,...

  • The Toldpuddle Woman

    Wesley Gillam fears he has little chance of romance with the beautiful Saranna, especially when he discovers she is his brother's girl. Saranna is drawn by Wes's distance, but Wes is committed to helping his struggling fellow countrymen before he is ...

  • Here, There and Yesterday

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

E.V. Thompson has published 43 books.

E.V. Thompson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Toldpuddle Woman, was published in June 2015.

The first book by E.V. Thompson, Chase the Wind, was published in May 1977.

Yes. E.V. Thompson has 3 series.
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