Editing Cornwall (section)

====Fiction====
{{see also|Poldark|Winston Graham}}
[[Arthur Quiller-Couch|Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch]], author of many novels and works of literary criticism, lived in Fowey: his novels are mainly set in Cornwall. [[Daphne du Maurier]] lived at [[Menabilly]] near Fowey and many of her novels had Cornish settings: ''[[The Loving Spirit]]'', ''[[Jamaica Inn (novel)|Jamaica Inn]]'', ''[[Rebecca (novel)|Rebecca]]'', ''[[Frenchman's Creek (novel)|Frenchman's Creek]]'', ''[[The King's General]]'' (partially), ''[[My Cousin Rachel]]'', ''[[The House on the Strand]]'' and ''[[Rule Britannia (novel)|Rule Britannia]]''.<ref>{{cite web | title =Daphne du Maurier | publisher =DuMaurier.org | url =http://www.DuMaurier.org/ | access-date =11 May 2007 | archive-date =6 February 2012 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20120206075140/http://www.dumaurier.org/ | url-status =live }}</ref> She is also noted for writing ''Vanishing Cornwall''. Cornwall provided the inspiration for ''[[The Birds (story)|The Birds]]'', one of her terrifying series of short stories, made famous as a film by [[Alfred Hitchcock]].<ref>{{cite web | title =The Birds | publisher =MovieDiva.com | url =http://www.moviediva.com/MD_root/reviewpages/MDBirds.htm | access-date =11 May 2007 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070809044041/http://www.moviediva.com/MD_root/reviewpages/MDBirds.htm | archive-date =9 August 2007 | url-status =dead }}</ref> [[File:RemainsofTintagel.jpg|thumb|right|Remains of [[Tintagel Castle]], reputedly [[King Arthur]]'s birthplace]]

[[Arthur Conan Doyle|Conan Doyle]]'s ''[[The Adventure of the Devil's Foot]]'' featuring [[Sherlock Holmes]] is set in Cornwall.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Adventure of the Devil's Foot |publisher=WorldwideSchool.org |url=http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/detective/TheAdventureoftheDevilsFoot/Chap1.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130113113313/http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/detective/TheAdventureoftheDevilsFoot/Chap1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 January 2013 |access-date=11 May 2007 }}</ref> [[Winston Graham]]'s series ''[[Poldark]]'', [[Kate Tremayne]]'s [[Adam Loveday]] series, [[Susan Cooper]]'s novels ''[[Over Sea, Under Stone]]''<ref>{{cite web | title =Over Sea, Under Stone | publisher =Powell's Books | url =http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780689840357 | access-date =11 May 2007 | archive-date =20 February 2007 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070220015103/http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780689840357 | url-status =live }}</ref> and ''Greenwitch'', and [[Mary Wesley]]'s ''[[The Camomile Lawn]]'' are all set in Cornwall. Writing under the pseudonym of Alexander Kent, [[Douglas Reeman]] sets parts of his [[Richard Bolitho]] and Adam Bolitho series in the Cornwall of the late 18th and the early 19th centuries, particularly in Falmouth. [[Gilbert K. Chesterton]] placed the action of many of his stories there.

Medieval Cornwall is the setting of the trilogy by [[Monica Furlong]], ''Wise Child'', ''Juniper'' and ''Colman'', as well as part of Charles Kingsley's ''[[Hereward the Wake (novel)|Hereward the Wake]]''.

[[Hammond Innes]]'s novel, ''The Killer Mine'';<ref>{{cite web|title=The Killer Mine |publisher=BoekBesprekingen.nl |url=http://www.boekbesprekingen.nl/cgi-bin/boek.cgi?boek=588391 |access-date=11 May 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008090759/http://www.boekbesprekingen.nl/cgi-bin/boek.cgi?boek=588391 |archive-date=8 October 2007 }}</ref> [[Charles de Lint]]'s novel ''The Little Country'';<ref>{{Cite book| title =The Little Country | isbn=0312876491| last1=Lint| first1=Charles de| date=7 April 2001| publisher=Macmillan}}</ref> and Chapters 24–25 of [[J. K. Rowling]]'s ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'' take place in Cornwall (Shell Cottage, on the beach outside the fictional village of Tinworth).<ref>{{cite web| title =Shell Cottage| publisher =hp-lexicon.org| url =http://www.hp-lexicon.org/atlas/gazetteer/gazetteer-s.html| access-date =11 January 2008| archive-date =30 December 2007| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20071230065826/http://www.hp-lexicon.org/atlas/gazetteer/gazetteer-s.html| url-status =live}}</ref>

David Cornwell, who wrote espionage novels under the name [[John le Carré]], lived and worked in Cornwall.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.channel4.com/news/le-carr-betrayed-by-bad-lot-spy-kim-philby |title=Le Carré betrayed by 'bad lot' spy Kim Philby |work=Channel 4 News |publisher=Channel 4 |date=12 September 2010 |location=London |access-date=26 May 2011 |archive-date=8 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708101836/https://www.channel4.com/news/le-carr-betrayed-by-bad-lot-spy-kim-philby |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize-winning]] novelist [[William Golding]] was born in [[St Columb Minor]] in 1911, and returned to live near Truro from 1985 until his death in 1993.<ref>{{cite web|title=Biography of William Golding |publisher=William-Golding.co.uk |url=http://www.william-golding.co.uk/p_biography.html |access-date=11 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070317193534/http://www.william-golding.co.uk/p_biography.html |archive-date=17 March 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[D. H. Lawrence]] spent a short time living in Cornwall. [[Rosamunde Pilcher]] grew up in Cornwall, and several of her books take place there.

[[St Michael's Mount|St. Michael's Mount]] in Cornwall (under the fictional name of Mount Polbearne) is the setting of the Little Beach Street Bakery series by [[Jenny Colgan]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Author Jenny Colgan reveals how Cornwall kick starts her creativity |url=https://www.visitcornwall.com/about-cornwall/blogging-cornwall/author-jenny-colgan-reveals-how-cornwall-kick-starts-her-creativity |access-date=11 July 2022 |website=www.visitcornwall.com |archive-date=11 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220711115858/https://www.visitcornwall.com/about-cornwall/blogging-cornwall/author-jenny-colgan-reveals-how-cornwall-kick-starts-her-creativity |url-status=dead }}</ref> who spent holidays in Cornwall as a child.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McDonald |first=Sally |title=Bestselling author Jenny Colgan: I grew up by the sea, so it has always been part of my life and seems such a natural place to be |url=https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/jenny-colgan-interview/ |access-date=11 July 2022 |website=The Sunday Post |date=13 June 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref> The book series includes ''Little Beach Street Bakery'' (2014), ''Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery'' (2015), ''Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery'' (2016), and ''Sunrise by the Sea'' (2021).

In the ''[[Paddington Bear]]'' novels by [[Michael Bond]] the title character is said to have landed at an unspecified port in Cornwall having travelled in a [[Lifeboat (shipboard)|lifeboat]] aboard a [[cargo ship]] from darkest [[Peru]]. From here he travels to [[London]] on a train and eventually arrives at [[Paddington Station]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.paddington.com/global/home-page/|title=Paddington|website=Paddington|accessdate=24 November 2022|archive-date=24 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124064329/https://www.paddington.com/global/home-page/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Enid Blyton]]'s 1953 novel ''[[Five Go Down to the Sea]]'' (the twelfth book in ''[[The Famous Five]]'' series) is set in Cornwall, near the fictional coastal village of Tremannon.