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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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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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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.
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Religious buildingsApril 1988The History of Glasney College
by James Whetter
Glasney College was an important centre of ecclesiastical power in Cornwall during the Middle Ages. Abandoned at the Reformation, its stones used in the building of Penryn nearby, the author's research in this book brings it to life again.
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Picture books, activity books & early learning materialMay 1986It's All Humphrey's Fault
by Keith Chatfield
Elizabeth's piano practice is interrupted by Humphrey, but her efforts to help him with his own home-made instruments only cause more trouble.
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MemoirsFebruary 1990Figures of Speech
by Phyllida Garth
Anyone who laughs at St. Trinian's will enjoy Phyllida Garth's true account of life as a teacher at a number of schools in the 1930s.
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Biography: generalDecember 1998With Magic in My Eyes
A Cornish Chronicle
by Erma Harvey-James
Erma's evocative descriptions of everyone and everything around her, including a number of haunted and slightly sinister events, beginning with her beloved garden and her strange ‘single-parent’ family, combine in this atmospheric account of her struggle to achieve independence, and love.
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Picture books, activity books & early learning materialJanuary 1986My Brother Humphrey
by Keith Chatfield
Humphrey's curiosity about the world about him constantly leads him into mischief, to the exasperation of his older sister Elizabeth, who tells all the stories.
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Diaries, letters & journalsJune 1986Caught From Time
A country diary of the 1920s
by Anne Garnett
Anne Garnett was a schoolgirl in the Quantock and Brendon Hills country of West Somerset in the 1920s. Aged sixteen, she began to keep a diary and her pen, pencil and paintbrush give a lively impression of the people and the country around her.
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MemoirsFebruary 1990Seagull Morning
The Cornwall of My Childhood
by Elsie Balme
The tar making, the wood shavings on the workshop floors, the games in the streets and all that went to make up her childhood in the little fishing port of Porthleven in the 1930s and 1940s are brought vividly to life by Elsie Balme.
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Thriller / suspenseMarch 1991A Season of Lamplight
by Trevor Vaughan
'Take the pleasure and forget the pain', Mary tells Arthur, who has been left at his cousins' farm in Co. Down in 1939. It is a philosophy that plunges her into undreamed of consequences, while the boy, who turns to her for comfort when he is homesick, becomes caught up in a conflict of love. For unknown to the rest of the household, it has another inhabitant....
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MemoirsApril 1995Lobster at Littlehampton
An Edwardian Childhood
by Clare Sheppard
In this wonderfully rich and funny book Clare Sheppard's family comes to life, particularly her redoubtable grandmother, Mrs Warre Cornish who was a feature at Eton, and a cast of characters like the musician Donald Tovey and writer Hilaire Belloc.
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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)January 1996The Timid Bending Venus
by John Adlard
Satire, fantasy and literary allusion blend in this comedy, a love story that takes place at a feminist conference in a haunted Scottish castle.
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Historical romanceOctober 1992The Dartmoor Yankee
by Malcolm Lynch
The story of John Adams, an American prisoner of war in 1812 who has escaped from jail into the wilds of Dartmoor. He finds shelter and love with the gipsy-like but street-wise and beautiful Sally. His haven is soon shattered by the advent of prison guards and the apparently unaccountable ruthlessness of Sally who has informed on him. Ruthless but not faithless, she turns up in the end to help him fulfil the promise he has made to transport her ‘to the Mississippi and feed her on buffalo’.
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MemoirsJune 1983Across Cobblestones
by Derrick Rugg
Derrick Rugg describes his idyllic childhood at Kentisbeare in the 1930s looking for wild violets or strawberries, of cricket, rabbit chasing and apple scrumping, until the time comes for secondary school.
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November 1983And Then There was One
by Joyce Dennys
Joyce spent her early years with her mother, brothers, cousins & beloved nanny; her father was absent, in India. She conveys with humour and charm the Spartan yet secure world of her Edwardian childhood, by word and in her entertaining line drawings.
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Picture books, activity books & early learning materialJanuary 1986Daddy's Good Ideas
by Keith Chatfield
Every Sunday Daddy has a good idea and this time it is to paint a picture that is very cold, so Humphrey and Elizabeth find out about hot and cold colour.
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Picture books, activity books & early learning materialJanuary 1986The Boy in the Mirror
by Keith Chatfield
When Humphrey teases Elizabeth because he seems taller than her in a looking-glass, it leads to her learning the word perspective.
