June Barrie

Twins Winnie and Dora are used to conflict. Professionally, their father cuts a controversial figure with his modern fishing techniques, whilst at home his temper rules the household. His one ambition for his daughters is that they should marry well.

First called 'The Birdcage' by Felix, the strange quirky household in Bristol is where Lizzie lived as a child with her flamboyant mother, Angel. Felix himself lived in his family home on Exmoor, Michaelgarth, with his wife and son. Many years later Lizzie visits Michaelgarth and finds a family in trouble, needing her help to heal themselves.

Lizzie Treloweth is from a large family, who have to struggle to run their father's butcher's shop in Penzance, when he enlists in the army at the start of WW1. When Lizzie trains as a nurse she meets and befriends Tamsin Beswetherick, the daughter of the local gentry.

Once successful businesswoman Maeve Corrigan, is dying. Having no children of her own, she determines that she will bequeath her great wealth to one of her nephews or nieces, the offspring of her two estranged brothers. And so she arranges to meet three of them. The legacy however is not what it seems.

Susan was born and brought up in an old farmhouse in remote Derbyshire. The furniture, which had been handed down through generations, spoke to her. Being sensitive and imaginative she listened to the trees, the wind, and the hills that surrounded her.

Henry Morley knows that good fortune have given him his wife and his family home. After converting the stables into cottages he is delighted to welcome a group of occupants, but as the recession starts to bite disaster strikes!

Three couples living in the heart of Dartmoor turn to each other in a time of need and learn important lessons in life. Quentin and Clemmie fear the onset of old age; Phillida and Alistair are struck by a great sorrow; and whilst Claudia and Jeff may appear the perfect couple they are hiding from the truth of their marriage.

Twenty-five years after giving up a successful ballet career after a tragic accident, Mim finds history repeating itself: Daisy, her protégé, is suffering from injury and is sent to Mim’s family home in Cornwall. There she begins an affair with Mim’s brother.

Paradise has been home to generations of Trevannians. Honor Trevannian, frail and bedridden, is very distressed at the arrival of a young American and asks her grand-daughter to find a cache of letters. After her death, the family faces revelations which could tear them apart.

Victoria is the vicar's only daughter and she is beginning to chafe against the Edwardian conventions that restrict her life. With the local mining industry in decline, the story is a glimpse of life, love and loss in Cornwall in the 1900s.

Starting in 1939, this is the story of two families as they live through the Second World War, hoping for happier times ahead.

Clio is staying with her godmother at Hester's remote house on Exmoor. Jonah, visiting the area, chances upon the house where his mother stayed during the war. As the young couple become close, Hester realises that she must tell them about the past before it is too late.

'Sprat' leaves her native cornwall for London after breaking up wih her sweetheart, Denzil, and quarrelling with her family. There she meets a suffragette and Denzil's nemesis. But soon the excitement of London palls and she longs for home.

Miss Read learns of a proposed new housing development and the residents of Fairacre are soon up in arms.

Set in the Cornish village of Penvarris, sixteen-year-old Wilhelmina has been offered the position of companion to Violet Gresham. Meanwhile Denzil Vargo and his mother are adjusting to life without Denzil's bullying father. The re-appearance of Sam Vargo shatters many hopes and dreams.

Novelist Anne Medlicott made an accidental remark on a TV progamme about Nazi sympathisers in Britain and is now facing a libel suit. Forced out of the cosy cocoon of her life, Anne faces truths that are harsh and painful. X rated, contains graphic violence and explicit sex.

George marries Thea, twenty years his junior, after abandoning a long-standing affair with formidable Felicity. At first, their new life in Devon is harmonious – until Felicity comes to visit.

Having watched weary French soldiers pass her home, Lady Fortecue set up rest stops all over Provence for them. When the German occupation began she made a mad dash to Brittany to escape on one of the last boats.

The Tregenza girls: Helena Tregenza, confined to home because of her blindness; her impulsive sister Lucy and her secret romance with James; and Maisie the maid who can’t afford to marry her beau, are soon to have their lives shattered by the First World War.

Two stories from Miss Read demonstrating her wry wit and light touch. From the rural festivities of a village christmas, to the poignant tale of a white robin.

Claire Lorimer has been a novelist since the war, when, armed with an old typewriter and a vivid imagination she started to write. In her autobiography she describes her childhood when her mother entertained the literati of the day at country house parties, and continues with the story of a fascinating life.