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Truran Books has been established for over thirty years and has been in the present ownership of Heather & Ivan Corbett for the past twelve years. Originally the company specialised in books on Cornish topics only. Since then the range and style of books has been vastly increased covering Devon, Cornwall and the South-west.

Though we are a commercial publisher we are prepared to publish titles that we feel are in the public interest and which we know will be fortunate to eventually break even. We are not vanity publishers so that our titles are selected on merit rather than the author's finances.

A quick look at the book pages will show the range and diversity of our publications. We publish about 6-10 titles a year depending on several factors including our own resources. The constraints are usually of time rather than anything else.

As company policy all our books are designed and printed in the west-country; there are no such constraints on the residence of our authors.

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Just  Published: The fourth book in the Felicity Paradise series image Just Published: The fourth book in the Felicity Paradise series
Smoke Damage by Debby Fowler

 £6.99
ISBN 978 185022 227 9
178x110mm 222pages

Chief Inspector Keith Penrose is hunting a serial arsonist – the investigation is going nowhere and his boss is hounding him. His son Will has left the army in unexplained circumstances, drinking hard and causing a good deal of grief at home. His wife Barbara blames Keith for everything – ‘if only you’d spent more time at home...’
Felicity delighted with her new granddaughter finds herself being bullied by her ever reliably self-centred daughter into babysitting whilst Mel pursues her career.  Felicity has a ‘red hot date’ with a very eligible widower and acquires a more permanent male companion – very small on four legs.
Despite all these anxieties Felicity and Keith do get to the bottom of this complicated affair which stretches from way back in the past. In the process they learn more about themselves and their relationship.

‘The stories all are marked by a delightful warmth and humanity, the poignancy and sensitivity, along with lots of gentle joys, counterpointing the tragedies of murders and hatreds’.
Ewan W. Wilson – Crime buyer - Waterstones Glasgow

Recently published image Recently published
Devoran & its River a photographic history

by Ralph and Marie Bird
£9.99
ISBN 978 185022 224 8
295x210mm - 118 pages
224 black & white photographs 5 colour photographs

This is a collection of old photographs of Devoran and the surrounding area, giving the reader an insight into life gone by and showing how things have changed over the years.


useful links
John Dyer
> www.johndyer.info
Felicity Paradise by Debby Fowler
> www.felicityparadise.com
Royal Cornwall Museum
> www.royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk
The Lander Gallery
> www.landergallery.co.uk/
Penlee House Gallery & Museum
> www.penleehouse.org.uk/
Living food of St. Ives
> www.sproutingseeds.co.uk
 > view more useful links
contact details

Truran Books
Goonance
Water Lane
St Agnes
Cornwall
United Kingdom
TR5 0RA



Publisher:
info@truranbooks.co.uk
Tel: 01872 553821



Trade Distributor:
Tor Mark
office@tormark.co.uk
Tel: 01209 822101
Fax: 01209 822035



Private orders:
Please contact Willow Books
info@willowbooks.co.uk
Tel: 01209 822011
Fax: 01209 822321