EV Thompson Books in Order

Josh Retallick rises from the Cornish mines into a world of reform, engineering, and labor unrest. His fight for fairer conditions is tangled up with his lasting bond to Miriam Trago, and both battles demand a price.

Bound for Australia, Josh Retallick and Miriam Thackeray are thrown into disaster when their ship wrecks off southern Africa. Far from Cornwall, survival becomes the first task, and love the harder one.

During the Irish famine, Liam MacCabe turns from music and daily survival toward politics and public action. As he tries to give people hope, he also makes powerful enemies who would rather see nothing change.

In the hard mining country of early nineteenth-century Cornwall, Ben Retallick grows up with danger and hunger close at hand. Losing the woman he loves sends him into a determined search that drives the whole novel.

A compact introduction to Bodmin Moor, its landscape, villages, and local history. It is the kind of guide that helps readers notice both the wild scenery and the lives once shaped by it.

Cornishman Luke Trewarne sails into the South China Seas hoping to make his fortune. What he finds instead is a world split between opportunity and misery, with the opium trade at its heart.

A short guide to Cornwall's south coast, introducing readers to the places, scenery, and history that shape the shoreline. It is written for curious visitors as much as local history readers.

Daniel Retallick settles with his family in Matabeleland hoping to build a secure new life. Instead he is swept into the violence and conflicting loyalties of southern Africa as war closes in.

In 1810 Cornwall, prizefighter Nathan Jago tries to turn his winnings into a fishing business and a steadier life. The sea, smugglers, and two very different women make that hope harder than it sounds.

This local history book surveys a century on Bodmin Moor, following communities, work, and change across one of Cornwall's most distinctive landscapes. It offers a broad picture of daily life as well as place.

Set in the rough Texas frontier of the 1830s, this historical adventure drops its characters into a lawless young land. Survival depends on nerve, loyalty, and knowing when idealism must give way to action.

After Texas wins its independence, adventurer Adam Rashleigh watches a new republic struggle to survive. Bankruptcy, violence, and raw frontier politics test both his loyalties and his chance at love.

Nathan Jago rescues a child from a wreck on a stormy Cornish night, and the act reshapes his family forever. Hard times, old houses, and political intrigue pull him from the coast all the way toward Paris.

In South Africa on the eve of the Boer War, two Retallick brothers are carried toward opposite sides of the conflict. Love, inheritance, and divided loyalties make the coming violence painfully personal.

This nonfiction book ranges across Westcountry places and local history, using short pieces to bring towns, landscapes, and old stories into view. It suits readers who enjoy regional character as much as facts.

A readable local history of Bristol that focuses on the city's streets, landmarks, and the people who shaped them. It is a short portrait of place, memory, and urban change.

In the slums of nineteenth-century Bristol, Becky survives by wit, nerve, and stubborn hope. Love offers her a way out, but poverty and insecurity keep reminding her how fragile any better future can be.

Reverend Wyatt Jamieson arrives in the Highland parish of Eskaig and finds greed and suspicion eating into village life. Trying to do right puts him against local power, and his growing love for Mairi raises the stakes even higher.

This slim history book revisits the clay country across Cornwall and Devon from 1872 to 1924. It offers a snapshot of pits, villages, transport, and everyday life in an industry-shaped landscape.

When Henry marches off to the Napoleonic Wars, Cassie refuses to stay behind waiting for promises. Pregnant and determined, she follows him to Spain and into a much harsher world than either of them expected.

Three Highland emigrants start over in Canada, America, and Australia, carrying debt, defiance, grief, and ambition with them. Over generations their families cross again in war, love, and a lasting pull toward the home they left behind.

Josh and Miriam return from Africa to a harder, hungrier Cornwall and meet the wild young Lottie on Bodmin Moor. Her fierce spirit and troubled inheritance make her future as rough and unpredictable as the land around her.

Set in nineteenth-century China, this novel follows the bond between a Chinese peasant girl and an English naval officer. Their love story unfolds against political change, distance, and the weight of two very different worlds.

A short local history of Bodmin Moor, looking at how its people, places, and working life changed over time. It is aimed at readers who want the human story behind the landscape.

On the edge of the Cotswolds, a young man fights for health, security, and a place in the world. His deepest obstacle is love for a woman whose background and way of life seem impossibly far from his own.

This local history volume looks back at St Austell between 1903 and 1933, tracing streets, shops, work, and everyday life. It offers a compact glimpse of how the town changed across the early twentieth century.

Dewi Morgan comes to Polrudden expecting a governess post and finds herself unwelcome from the moment she arrives. Her future becomes tangled with the Jago household, where pride, class, and old loyalties still rule the house.

Set amid unrest in the West Country, young Wes Gillam is pulled between family duty, injustice, and his feelings for Saranna. To win any future at all, he has to protect the people he loves from forces far stronger than himself.

When Josh and Miriam Retallick take over the Ruddlemoor clay works, family loss and business pressure quickly complicate the venture. Years later young Ben arrives in Cornwall and must prove himself in work, rivalry, and love.

Abandoned while pregnant, Becky faces childbirth and single motherhood with only a few loyal friends beside her. She builds a life for her daughter while still clinging to the hope that the man who left her may return.

Curate Toby Lovell arrives determined to challenge a landowner who controls his workers' lives, including their worship. A painful misunderstanding then tears him from Bethany, and the rest of the story turns on faith, duty, and reunion.

A compact walking guide to Bodmin Moor, with maps and route notes to help readers explore the landscape on foot. It combines practical directions with a feel for the moor's history and character.

At overcrowded Dartmoor prison during wartime, American and French prisoners live in a tense, dangerous balance. A forbidden romance and a vindictive governor push the situation toward violence just as peace is supposed to be arriving.

Drawing on African legends and folktale traditions, this book imagines origin stories for birds, animals, and plants. It reads as a colorful set of tales shaped by campfire storytelling and Thompson's own sense of wonder.

Ben Retallick's clay business is hit by labor unrest as Cornwall edges toward violent change in 1910 and 1911. At the same time, the women around him are pulled into the wider movements reshaping Britain and Europe.

After their mother's death, sisters Sally and Ruth are left to survive however they can. Ruth's murder sends Sally in search of the father she barely knows, only to find that family answers do not promise peace.

Thomasina refuses the narrow life expected of her and runs headlong into danger. She lives as a highway robber, goes to sea disguised as a boy, and keeps chasing freedom until love finally asks something steadier of her.

When Cornwall's mines fail, Sam sails for Australia and Emily follows after her father's death leaves her with no home. Their story turns on distance, misunderstanding, and the hard promise of starting again overseas.

Perys Tremayne grows up on the edges of his own family in Cornwall and finds purpose only when war breaks out in 1914. Becoming a flying ace changes his fortunes, but not the tangled love he leaves behind.

While Gideon works on wartime railway plans for the Crimea, Alice is left alone in Cornwall with nowhere secure to go. Her path leads through poverty, nursing, and disease before war gives the pair one more chance to meet.

This short nonfiction book looks at Victoria Cross winners from the West Country and the acts of courage that made them part of military history. It is a compact local record of bravery and remembrance.

Alan Carter returns from the Great War to find his brief marriage already slipping away. He starts over in Cornwall, where heartbreak, hard-earned courage, and a meeting with artist Vicky open the door to a different life.

In 1915 Ben Retallick is drawn into a risky wartime mission to haul gunboats inland from Cape Town to Lake Tanganyika. The journey mixes engineering, danger, and imperial ambition with the Retallick family's wider wartime burdens.

During the English Civil War, young Ralf Moyle becomes page to the future Charles II and follows the court through chaos and retreat. Power games, divided loyalties, and a dangerous love affair make his rise anything but safe.

In 1856, Amos Hawke is sent from Scotland Yard to Cornwall after three men are murdered. His investigation leads him into local grievances, buried motives, and an uneasy alliance with Talwyn, the daughter of one of the victims.

Young Cornish miner Wesley Curnow goes to America searching for an uncle and finds a far rougher road than he expected. River pirates, frontier violence, and long miles inland turn his journey into a hard test of luck and character.

Battered London constable Tom Churchyard retreats to Cornwall and becomes Amos Hawke's unlikely partner. Together they track city thieves and a murder case that exposes how fragile the new county police force really is.

After a devastating storm tears along the Cornish coast, a half-drowned girl is found in an isolated cove. The mystery of who she is, and what she carries with her, changes Alice Kilpeck's life forever.

Amos Hawke and Tom Churchyard head to a remote Cornish village after a young wife is murdered and her baby disappears. In a place closed to outsiders, every lie and old grievance makes the case darker.

When copper is found in 1837, farm worker Goran Trebartha is caught in the upheaval as miners flood in and old rural habits start to break. Ambition, hunger, and family tensions push him into a life-changing struggle.