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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)April 1984Seaborn
by Neville Drury
A detailed story of the human and other species on the Atlantic Cornish coast in their continual struggle for survival. This documentary fiction builds up a picture of the lives of sea birds, fish and fishermen through the cycle of one year.
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FantasyJuly 1987Come Deep Water
Sea Stories
by Elizabeth Batory
Fantasy and imagination make up these twelve beguiling seascapes: boys on the trail of a mermaid or struggling in a rough sea; Eth’s husband, a conjurer & man of many secrets; & little Miss Aggie, who also had something to hide. The author’s characters are many and varied, but they all have in common a lively involvement in the natural – & supernatural – worlds about them. Through these unusual stories runs the theme of the power & mystery of the sea.
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Thriller / suspenseJanuary 1982Kandykrak
by Howard Abbot
The executives of TransState, a multi-national company, plan to sell chocolates containing a virulent strain of salmonella. Can Peter Kent stop them before any more deaths? - The author's experience of the business world gives this thriller the ring of truth. It is a novel on a perennially topical subject.
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Literary studies: poetry & poetsJanuary 1981The Slender Tree
A life of Alice Meynell
by June Badeni
A biography of the Victorian poet, writer and feminist Alice Meynell, which covers her childhood in Italy, her first love affair that led to some of her finest poetry, her marriage to the writer William Meynell, the love for her of three of the foremost poets of her day, and her writing career, until the end of her life in 1924.
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Picture books, activity books & early learning materialJanuary 1986Granny Teacosy
by Keith Chatfield
Humphrey has fun measuring the length of Granny's ball of knitting-wool, especially as it involves winding her up in it, with Toby, the cat.
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Picture books, activity books & early learning materialMay 1986Humphrey The Birdman
by Keith Chatfield
Humphrey has one of his ominous ideas, but flying is not easy and he finds it better to use one of his sister's dolls as a parachutist.
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Poetry by individual poetsJanuary 1986A Different Drummer
Poems
by Jack Clemo
The mellow outlook of Jack Clemo's work in later life is evident in this selecton, arranged in five parts, of poems inspired by his own circumstances, other writers and artists, music and places, biography and spirituality, and more places and people.
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Prose: non-fictionOctober 1987Under Helicon
Journeys in the Mediterranean
by P. Tremayne
Penelope Tremayne's essays and lyrical poetry about the Mediterranean world, especially Greece, are steeped in its beauty and the memory of its long history. Her writing is matched by the photography of Guy Gravett.
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The countryside, country lifeApril 2007Tremedda Days
A View of Zennor 1900-1944
by Alison Symons
An absorbing and keenly observed record of agricultural life in West Penwith in the early 20th century based on, and enlivened by, the author’s own unusual family’s farming life.
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Picture books, activity books & early learning materialSeptember 1993Grandad Fixed it
by Keith Chatfield
Grandad takes Humphrey and Elizabeth for a day out, with lots of surprises. One surprise for a child reading this book would be to find his or her name as part of the picture, p.13.
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Theatre: individual actors & directorsOctober 1997A Confession in Writing
by A. Shaughnessy
An account of fifty years, training at Ealing Studios then writing and directing for film, theatre and television, by the principal script-writer and editor of TV series such as the original 'Upstairs, Downstairs'.
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MemoirsJune 2000Pinhoe as Used to Was
by Denys Deere-Jones
Pinhoe, now joined to Exeter, in the 1920s was still rural. Readers who relish country life and the idiosyncracies of human nature will enjoy the author’s story of his boyhood under the rule of his father, the village schoolmaster
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Fantasy & magical realism (Children's/YA)October 1996Bird Mountain
by Keith Chatfield
Neesha finds that her bird friends are disappearing. Then Sharcrag, who lives in a hollow mountain, plotting to rule the whole world, kidnaps Neesha. Sharcrag's weapon is the power of words, and only Neesha can stop her.
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Biography: historical, political & militaryFebruary 2006One and All
A History of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1702-1959
by Hugo White
The first complete history of the regiment, this is a book for general readers as well as those interested in military history. The story is set in the context of the political and military events of its times, and covers episodes from the Capture of Gibraltar to the Siege of Lucknow, trench warfare in the First World War, the Battle of the Cauldron in North Africa and the ferocious fighting in Normandy in 1944, up to the post-war period and amalgamation with the Somerset Light Infantry in 1959. Throughout the book, the author describes the successive operations around the world of the former regiments that eventually became the DCLI, and of its separate battalions. He adds an appendix on the SCLI, successor to the DCLI.
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Picture books, activity books & early learning materialSeptember 1993Mummy Never Stops
by Keith Chatfield
Mummy is so busy that Humphrey and Elizabeth decide to give her some of their time, but working out how much is a puzzle.
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True storiesJune 2002The Boy and the Painter
Scenes from Alfred Wallis's St Ives
by Albert Rowe
The author was a relation of the painter Alfred Wallis and the title story in this collection describes graphically and with humour the boy’s fraught relationship with the old man: “Lovely fish,” I said sincerely. I didn’t think much of the boats, for they were of a kind I’d drawn when I was much younger … “I’ll tell’ee something about them fish”, Alfred said. He lowered his voice, glanced towards the stairs that led up to the bedroom. “I don’t want she to ‘ear. She’s up there, you knaw. They do all think she’s dead but she edn’t” …’
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Biography: religious & spiritualNovember 2004I Would Not Be Forgotten
The Life and work of Robert Hawker
by Patrick Hutton
Hawker, his life, work and poetry are fully revealed here. Relations with his two wives and neighbours, his beliefs, and the isolation he felt through living in 'far Cornwall' are described with sympathy and humour.
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)May 1996I Do Dance
Short Stories
by Elizabeth Batory
A beautiful and lyrical collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of Come The Deep Water. Inspired by her love of dance, the stories explore the theme of the need to manage, to survive - balancing the human needs of oneself and of others with the pursuit of a dream.
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Fantasy & magical realism (Children's/YA)September 1997Seat of Storms
2nd vol of The Lyonesse Stone Trilogy
by Craig Weatherill
This second volume in the Lyonesse Stone Trilogy reveals that John and Penny find themselves in trouble again, this time with a grasping lawyer Ezekiel Grosse, and Madge Figgy a witch. Nor does Penny trust Selena, with her beautiful green eyes and evasive manner. But an airborne journey on horseback endows her with fresh heart.
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MemoirsJuly 1982No Problem
The Story of a Cornishman, Part 2
by Edward Prynn
A Boy in Hobnailed Boots ends with Ed’s marriage. Here, with the same zest and grit as before, he goes straight on to tell of the dramas of life on farm, coast or quarry, until he achieves a house of his own where he can build his collection of giant Cornish stones.
