Natasha Black dreaded this day.It was the day of the final sign off for the demolition of the club's old stadium. She knew it had to happen, but that didn't mean it wasn't the hardest thing she'd ever have to do.It was a stadium full of memories.A stadium where she found community from a young age.A stadium where her grandfather made his name as a club legend.An eyesore to some, a piece of history to others, the old stadium stood derelict. And soon, ...

Coming out later in life presents its own challenges, and when it's a less well-known orientation like demisexuality (a type of asexuality), those challenges are both societal and personal.I came out aged 47 after struggling to understand for so long why I experience attraction in ways that seem complicated and confusing.When you're different, everyone notices. And you feel it, all day of every day. And some won't let you forget.It can hinder interpersonal relations...

Detective Sergeant Nikki Sandford is having the worst night of her life.Five minutes after the woman of her dreams dumped her in a conversation that had her questioning her sexuality once again, a man with a serious injury accosted her.One problem: he was already dead. The knife wound in his abdomen and the fact that nobody except Nikki could see him made that quite apparent.He wants Nikki to help solve his murder so he can move on to the afterlife, and Nikki is onl...

Is it possible to kill a person who is already dead and has been for hundreds of years?Karl hoped his retirement to coastal Cornwall from Cambridge would be idyllic and quiet. His new home, the picturesque village of Salmonweir overlooking the Cornish south coast between Treen and Lamorna Cove away from the big tourist destinations was seemingly perfect in that respect.Salmonweir, in fact, had nothing to set it apart from any other sleepy Cornish village unaffected by mass ...

Vince is stranded at a bus stop one cold and wet stormy November evening when a mysterious stranger offers him a lift and a room for the night. The stranger is one Michael James, a local aristocrat, and owner of The James Hotel in the nearby town of Execombe.It's an old hotel of mysterious figures and strange voices.It's a place where the owner and his equally mysterious reception manager repeatedly states "Nobody ever wants to leave!"What is the secret of The James...

It is the 1830s: Two men who have not seen each other in decades encounter each other quite by chance on Advent Sunday, many miles from where they both grew up.Moving their conversation to the home of the younger man, discussion soon switches to the small bronze carriage on his friend's mantelpiece.It has a strange tale, one that goes all the way back to the 1750s and the tale of a young newlywed couple heading to Oxford to spend time with the new groom's extended family.

Historians believe aside from two days in which the great monastic house of Tintern Abbey gave sanctuary to a king fleeing a usurper, nothing of note ever happened there.But they are wrong.In the early hours of Christmas Eve sometime in the 1340s, a man appears to an ordinary monk named Edmund. A man who only Edmund could see and hear.Edmund, find me.Who is the man? What does he want with Edmund? And can Edmund uncover a great mystery that threatens...

Once every three months, the inmates are given one chance to escape the fortified zombie infested island of Mortwich. One prison for men, another for women - all with the equal opportunity to win parole through a deadly race called Dead Lock.The winner gets to live as a free man or woman. The losers join the undead.Jim, Mike, Tony, and Kate, are thrown together in their desperate bid to escape. Just one question: is one of the companions just another of the many imprisoned ...

It's December and for Karl Blackman, the only living person in the Cornish ghost village of Salmonweir, that means unleashing his inner 6-year-old.Mince pies, presents, cold nights and bright lights.But all is not well in Salmonweir. Following the Advent Sunday service, one resident willingly returns to the afterlife with only Karl to witness it. Did Karl really see something that night or did Harry spike the mulled wine with Cornish moonshine?Karl must also contend...

It is the AD70s. The tumult of The Year of the Four Emperors is over.Under Vespasian, Rome finally has stability and peace, an emperor with the respect of all classes. Yet beyond the borders of the empire, something dark and unknown stirs.A fort deep in a Germanian forest failed to report to the border town of Mogontiacum. A contact from a friendly tribe reported catastrophic damage to buildings and Roman war machines. The legionaries are gone; what few Romans remain are mu...

It's spring and the big and small screen are coming to Salmonweir!After spending months filming on location everywhere except Cornwall, silly crime drama Killed in Kernow is returning home to the Duchy. What's more, they've chosen Salmonweir for their latest episode. Karl, despite reservations, has agreed to be an on-location consultant.Also in the village is Guesthouse Guru, a shouty Spanish woman who turns up at small hotels to tell them why they are so rubbish at guestho...

The ghosts of Salmonweir in Cornwall have given the village's only living resident - the retired detective Karl Blackman - the night off.In this collection of short stories, thirteen of the supporting characters recount weird and spooky goings on from the times when they were alive.What did Kensa have to do to prove herself a worthy queen? Why does Harry fear the ship known as The Storm Harpy? Did The King's head have a ghost resident before Morwenna and Babajide came back ...