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1) The newcomer
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It's springtime in the Cornish village of Pendruggan, and as the community comes together to say a fond farewell to parish vicar, Simon, and his wife, Penny, a newcomer causes quite a stir. Reverend Angela Whitehorn has come to Cornwall to make a difference. With her husband, Robert, by her side, she sets about making changes - but it seems not everyone is happy for her to shake things up in the small parish, and soon Angela starts to receive anonymous...
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The Village Secrets volume 1
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Essex 1867. The first flakes of snow are falling when Daisy Marshall finds herself jilted at the altar. After losing her job as governess to the Carrington family, she is forced to leave London and everything she knows. Heartbroken, Daisy finds herself in the small coastal village of Little Creek in Essex. There she is warmly welcomed - but the village is poverty-stricken and hit by a cholera outbreak. Determined to help, Daisy makes new friends with...
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Robert Hale
Pub. Date
2007
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Illustrated throughout, the book looks at the social, geological and architectural history behind the structure of English villages, and examines how industries, urbanization, transport and changing traditions have influenced how we have been using and designing our buildings over the centuries.
4) Coastliners
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Black Swan
Pub. Date
2002
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From the bestselling author of 'Chocolat', this is a novel about a hardy island community fighting the encroaching seas. A young woman returns to her home island off the Atlantic coast and tries to stop the decline of her father's fishing village.
6) The many
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Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2017
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Timothy Buchannan buys an abandoned house on the edge of an isolated village on the coast, sight unseen. When he sees the state of it, he questions the wisdom of his move but starts to renovate the house for his wife, Lauren, to join him there. When the villagers see smoke rising from the chimney of the neglected house, they are disturbed and intrigued by the presence of the incomer, intrigue that begins to verge on obsession. And the longer Timothy...
8) Holding
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Duneen is a quiet place, far enough from the big towns to have kept its own rhythms. Its residents include castdown policeman PJ who lives a lonely, uneventful life punctuated only by the next meal - until now; the beautiful and mysterious family of three spinster sisters each with their own secrets and sorrows; and of course, the town's gossip who think she knows the answers. When a grim discovery is made on a building site up by the old school,...
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History
Pub. Date
2009
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Deserted settlement sites are all around us and all British people will live within a very few miles of an example. Most of these settlements perished in the medieval period, when dwellings were prone to decay. This book not only explores such abandoned villages, but shows readers how they can investigate them for themselves.
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Burrowhead volume 3
Pub. Date
2022
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Take a sip and enter the world of the dead... As the station prepares to close down for good, DI Georgie Strachan is running out of time to find out what is really going on in Burrowhead and put a stop to it. A deadly drug appears in the small Scottish village, best consumed with the blood of a freshly slaughtered animal. But what does this have to do with the deaths and suicides? And who is responsible for supplying it? As rituals and threats reach...
11) Village school
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Fairacre volume 1
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Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2018
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Fairacre is a village of cottages, a church and the school - and at the heart of the school, its headmistress, Miss Read. Through her discerning eye, we meet the villagers of Fairacre and see their trials and tribulations, from the irascible school cleaner Mrs Pringle, to the young schoolchildren with their scraped knees, hopeful faces and inevitable mischief. Miss Read takes us through the school year, beginning with the Christmas term when the bitterly...
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
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Polly has always been the high-flier of the family, with the glamorous city lifestyle to match. Clare is a single mum with two children, struggling to make ends meet in a ramshackle cottage. The two sisters are poles apart and barely on speaking terms. But then Polly's fortunes change unexpectedly and her world comes crashing down. Left penniless and with nowhere else to go, she's forced back to the village where she and Clare grew up, and the sisters...
13) Blood red
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Pub. Date
2010
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Primavera Blackstone is enjoying the quiet life in an idyllic village on the Catalan coast of Spain. The attractive single mother & eight-year-old Tom, son of the late & still lamented Oz Blackstone, are popular figures in the tiny community. But her close friendship with the parish priest has eyebrows rising & tongues wagging.
14) The glass woman
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Iceland, 1686. The brutal, lava-scarred landscape can swallow a man without so much as a volcanic gasp. Jon Eiriksson has just married his second wife in a year. But Rosa's new home in the windswept village of Stykkisholmur is terrifyingly isolated - the villagers are suspicious of strangers and fearful of something which they will not name. What is Rosa's new husband's secret, and why does the spectre of his first wife Anna haunt them so?
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Ebury
Pub. Date
2008
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'The Lost Village' describes a journey in search of the true English village, through dales and suburbs, moors and estates. It captures the voices of poachers and gamekeepers, farmers and hunters, nurses and postmen, teachers and craftsmen, to demonstrate that the past is never so simple as we imagine.
16) The searcher
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Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force, and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But then a local kid comes looking for his help. His brother has gone missing, and no one, least of all the police, seems to care. Cal wants nothing to do with any kind of investigation, but...
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Full Circle
Pub. Date
2010
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First published in 1956, George Ewart Evans' classic record of life in a small Suffolk community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries has preserved for posterity a vivid and meticulous portrait of rural life before mechanization and the arrive of agri-business.
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Pub. Date
2015
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Beth, Rachel and Lindy are looking for new beginnings. Beth is planning her sister's wedding via Skype in order to avoid their domineering mother. Rachel has decided to get on with her new life in the country post-divorce, and has just finished decorating her new home. And single-mother Lindy is looking for something creative to do with her time now that her young sons don't need her quite so much. They find themselves living in the same village in...
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2013
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Tricia Borland is failing to bond with her baby. Lewis Ralston-Kerr and his fiance Ginny are horrified by Ginny's mother's determination to disregard their desire for a small village wedding and organise a large society affair. And the Prior's Ford Progress Committee have decided that the traditional summer festival needs pepping up this year.