The Flesh Auction is a dark fantasy novel set in medieval Cornwall. Vampiric-like beings have ravaged the lands and rule as bloodthirsty dictators. Delen, Kilian and Quin must fight for their lives and freedom, but what sacrifices are they willing to make for the hope of a new future?
In our Author Interview with Francis Edwards, we discover that Francis grew up in Camborne at a time when the last few mines were closing
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Francis Edwards wrote The Camborne Riots of 1873: An Eyewitness Account: a fictional view of one of the bloodiest events to happen in Camborne
Daphne Du Maurier’s Frenchman’s Creek was first published in 1941. Set in Cornwall during the reign of Charles II, Frenchman’s Creek tells the story of
“An extract from the short story Flecks of Gold by Stephen Baird, published in the Cornwall Writers anthology Cornwall: Misfits, Curiosities and Legends. The sunset
“He is huge and his chariot would dwarf the biggest hay cart you’ve ever seen. The chariot never touches the ground and nor do his
Ross Poldark was first published in 1945 and is the first book of twelve in Winston Graham’s Poldark series. Set in Cornwall 1783, post serving
Winston Graham, born Winston Grime in 1908, moved to Perranporth on the coast of South West Cornwall, where he lived for thirty-four years.
It’s a wild land where the gulls arc and swoop in instinctive, age-old ritual, where there’s an edge to the foam and the spray which flosses both dark and light upon the shanks of granite cliff.
Cornwall: Misfits, Curiosities and Legends by Cornwall Writers is an eclectic collection of short stories and other scribbles written by authors in Cornwall.
On a nasty November night, Mary Yellan crosses Bodmin moor. Her mother’s dying wish was that she take refuge with her Aunt Patience at Jamaica Inn. When the coach driver hears where she’s going, he insists she must have made a mistake. “That’s no place for a girl,” the coach driver tells her.
