E. V. Thompson
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Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
It is 1856. Cornish schoolteacher Talwyn is grief-stricken when her father's body is discovered by coastguards on the rocks at the foot of cliffs near their home. Worse is to come, and grief turns to horror when she learns that his death was not a tragic accident. He was murdered.
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English
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Wesley Curnow, a young Cornish miner, arrives in the United States to seek an uncle who is working on the mines in Missouri. Taking passage on a boat from New York, bound for New Orleans, he meets up with a charismatic U.S. marshall who is en route to the western territories to bring law to the area.
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English
Description
A young girl has been found washed up on rocks on the North Cornish coast, barely alive and with mystery surrounding her background. Her arrival changes the lives of those who come to know her, and, for Alice Kilpeck in particular, nothing will ever be the same again.
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Robert Hale
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When a Chinese peasant girl is chosen as a concubine to Li Hung, she quickly learns the reality is far from honourable. She is sent away, but rescued from her Junk by a Royal Marine Second Lieutenant. When the young officer becomes involved in the Taiping Rebellion, their blossoming relationship looks doomed.