Set in a Lancashire mill-town in the 1860s, this novel begins as the American Civil War marks the return of supplies to the stricken cotton industry. Matthew Raike, a young Devonian, goes north looking for work and settles in Saltley, in spite of the...
Championship surfer Dave Treganza returns to his native Cornwall for a visit, only to find his sister-in-law and aunt in turmoil because Jonathan, his brother, has disappeared without trace. Before long Jonathan’s body is discovered down a derelict...
Following an acrimonious split from her husband, Helen Pascoe moves her three children from London to Trenoon, a lovely old house in a rural part of Cornwall, inherited by Helen some years earlier. The whole family soon settles down to its new life n...