Local Interest

Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet

Lighthouses are striking totems of our relationship to the sea. For many, they encapsulate a romantic vision of solitary homes amongst the waves, but their original purpose was much more utilitaria...

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Sea of Storms: Shipwrecks of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

£25.00

Recounts the dramatic stories of 21 shipwrecks off the coast of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, through the eras of sail, steam and modern technology. With paintings by Oliver Hurst.

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The anthology of English folk tales

£12.99

The best tales from around the country, chosen from our popular series of Folk Tales

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Salt Path

£10.99

In one devastating week, Raynor and her husband Moth lost their home of 20 years, just as a terminal diagnosis took away their future together. With nowhere else to go, they decided to walk the Sou...

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The great way West

£14.99

A fascinating collection of images recording one of the most iconic routes on Britain’s railways – London to Cornwall.

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The little history of Cornwall

£14.99

From earliest records to the present day, in one easy-to-read volume

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Cornwall: A History

£25.00

A new edition of Philip Payton‘s modern classic Cornwall: A History, published now by University of Exeter Press, telling the story of Cornwall from earliest times t...

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Swordfish & Star

£10.99

The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends. Gavin Knight takes us into this huddle of grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning of the 21st century. He catches the stories of...

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Loco Spotterâs Guide

£6.99

From its development in the 1800s the locomotive has had a huge impact on all aspects of British life, as it carried travellers and freight across the country. Beyond its impact on the nation’...

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Book Of Tides

£25.00

Inspired by his own witnessing of the power of the sea through travelling around Britain’s coastline in a panel van with his young family, William Thomson tells the story of the cycles of the...

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Plymouth in the seventies

£18.95

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Gerlyver Poket: Pocket Dictionary

£6.00

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Padstow History Tour

£8.99

A guided tour of this historic town, showing how the areas you know and love have transformed over the centuries.

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Images of Bodmin Road to Padstow & Launceston Railways

£19.99

In this volume, the author returns to his home ground in Cornwall. The photographs included here are largely scenes that would have been familiar to the author from the 1930s and for most of the 80...

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South West Secret Agents

£9.99

Laura Quigley collects together true tales of South West spies in the Second World War from across the West Country and the South West.

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Brunel in Cornwall

£15.99

John Christopher, an acknowledged expert on Brunel, takes us on a tour of Cornwall, exploring his works in the county. This is the latest in a series of books which are about rediscovering Brunel&#...

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Cornish Feasts and Festivals

£5.95

This title describes 30 Cornish festivals, each with a quirky, fun illustration and accompanying recipe, old or new. For each recipe there is a photo of the finished dish.

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