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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.
7) 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.
9) Blood red
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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.
10) The glass woman
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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.
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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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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.
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Devon, 1954. The villagers of Burracombe pull together to help each other though the tough times but, this summer, it's time to celebrate love and new life. There are a few surprises to come, however, before anyone can walk up the aisle. It's been a long, hard winter in Burracombe. At Buracombe Barton, Hilary Napier is doing her best to care for her father and keep the estate ticking along, all the while longing for a man she cannot have. She welcomes...
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Hilary Napier has had enough of secrets. The engagement party at the Barton is finally a chance for her and David to celebrate their good news with friends and family. But with obstacles springing up from all angles, there may be more than the dress and the venue to arrange before they can consider walking down the aisle. Ivy Sweet is still ruffling feathers in the village but her harsh exterior falters when a stranger comes looking for her. At the...
18) The village news
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Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
Pub. Date
2017
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'The Village News' is a whimsical, funny and informative travelogue by pedal power of a variety of villages across our nation that encapsulate, or showcase, all the best elements of what could be seen as the English village.
20) Village fortunes
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Tales from Turnham Malpas volume 17
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Things are heating up in the village of Turnham Malpas. Now comfortably settled in the Big House, Johnny and Alice Templeton are over the moon at the arrival of their second son. But Johnny's roguish younger brother, Chris, is visiting from Brazil and causing trouble in the village... For Ford and Mercedes Barclay, returning to the village after all these years is a big step. Will they be welcomed or shunned? And will Ford be able to convince people...