Sagas

Sylvia Broady / The Yearning Heart

It is war-time Britain and seduced by her brother-in-law, sixteen-year-old Frances becomes pregnant and is banished to a lonely farm. She gives birth to twins, a boy and a girl, whom her mother heartlessly wrenches from her. And when told her baby...

Howard Hughes / A House Divided ( An Easterleigh Hall Novel)

As the storm clouds gather over Europe, life at Easterleigh Hall is about to change againIt’s 1937, and Evie’s daughter Bridie, as headstrong and beautiful as her mother, is learning her trade as a cook in the Easterleigh Hall kitchens. But...

E.V. Thompson / Seek A New Dawn | Winds Of Fortune ( Omnibus Edition)

Emily Boyce, daughter of a pretentious Cornish parson, incurs her father's wrath by falling in love with young Sam Hooper, a copper miner on Bodmin Moor. So when the moorland mines fail, her father ensures that Sam goes to seek a new life in South...

Maggie Campbell / Nurse Kitty: After the War

It is 1950 and Kitty Longthorne is now a Sister at Manchester's Park Hospital, and as busy as ever. With dizzying numbers of children with polio being admitted to the children's ward, a sharp uptick of major trauma from road accidents and growing...

Elsie Mason / The Runaway Girl

1918. Fleeing from her past, Cathy Carmichael is new to the Sixteen Streets. She has nothing to her name, no plan and nowhere to go.Cathy thinks she's struck gold when she runs into Mrs Sturrocks, an elderly lady who offers her a room at her...

Irene Northan / To Dream Again ( The Devon Trilogy - Book 1

When laundress Mercy Seaton’s chance meeting with Peter Lisburne at the annual Torquay regatta leads to a whirlwind proposal, she’s swept into her husband’s glittering world at ‘I do’. But all that glitters is not gold...

Lizzie Lane / War Orphans

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Posy Lovell / The Sewing Factory Girls - PB

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Anna Dillon / Another Time, Another Season

A family saga based in London founded on the secrecy of a mother's illicit occupation. Misunderstandings compound as the truth is unravelled. The book is a sequel to "Seasons".   Originally 1989     All of our books are second...

Gloria Cook / Kilgarthen

A 1940s Cornish saga peopled with warm, funny but above all, believable characters. ( Book 1 0f the series)          All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all...

Nicola Thorne / A Wind in Summer

Geoffrey Blair is a doctor in the Yorkshire Dales. A widower with two sons, his life is comfortably settled until he is drawn to the lovely Catherine Wills, a girl of poorer background but great ambition. Their life together, and the lives of their...

Mary Jane Staples / Missing Person ( Adams Family Saga - Book 6 )

Mr. Finch had never told the rest of his family the secrets of his past, or what kind of work he did for the government, and he decided not to tell them about the slightly sinister telephone calls he started receiving either. It was when he took...

Janet MacLeod Trotter / The Suffragette ( Tyneside Sagas - Book 2)

Maggie Beaton, unmarried and pregnant, gives birth in the workhouse. Her baby daughter is taken away, but Maggie finds the strength to struggle on, eventually finding the child who has given her life meaning.         All of...

E.V. Thompson / Ruddlemoor ( Retallick Saga - Book 7)

Josh Retallick and his wife take on an exciting challenge as owners of Ruddlemoor china clay works, but tragedy forces Josh to leave almost immediately. When he returns he knows that his youngest grandson will one day follow him. So it is that...

Polly Heron / New Beginnings for the Surplus Girls

Manchester, 1923: Jess Mason is determined to make her own way in the world.When a misunderstanding on a job application means she's appointed manager for Holly Lodge, a home for old soldiers, she must convince the owner that she can run things just as...

Lee Dunne / Seasons of Destiny

Drunk with joy, Sam Sweet is in the arms of his newly wedded wife Deirdre, owner of the Brewer business empire since the death of her first husband Arthur. Then the ringing of a telephone shatters their bliss. Sam’s beloved Michael Collins has been...

Eileen Goudge / Thorns of Truth ( Garden of Lies - Book 2 )

In this sequel to "Garden of Lies", Rachael and Rose, now women with grown children of their own, find themselves face-to-face with the destiny that has haunted them for nearly half a century, since the two were switched at birth in the chaos of a...

Santa Montefiore / The Last Secret of the Deverills (Hardback)

It is 1939 and peace has flourished since the Great War ended. But much has changed for the Deverill family and now a new generation is waiting in the wings.Martha Wallace came to Dublin from her home in America to find her birth mother. But instead she...

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles / The Burning Roses (Hardback) ( Morland Dynasty - Book 29 )

1915 - World War IThe euphoria of the first days of the war has faded, but the nation is more determined than ever to win. While the Morland men go overseas, the women play their part at home, but it is a strange and emotional time for all. And with the...

E.V. Thompson / Becky (Hardback)

Fergus Vine has left the Navy to seek out his mentor, Henry Gordon. But Gordon lies dead, a victim of the scourge of the poor: alcoholism. Grieving for the loss of his friend, Fergus decides to fulfil Gordon's mission to record the lives of the poor...

Mary A. Larkin / Painful Decisions (Hardback)

Life in 1920s Belfast is hard for the working class people, but the Mc Guigans are more fortunate than most. But when eldest son Johnnie shatters the family's peaceful existence with a shocking and unwelcome revelation, opinions become divided. And...

Evelyn Hood / Omnibus : McAdam's Women / Pebbles on the Beach (Hardback)

  MCADAM'S WOMEN : The day her husband Kenneth died, Isla McAdam's life changed dramatically, irrevocably - and shockingly. Kenneth, twenty years her senior, has left her with two children, no money and a shameful legacy. For just as Isla knew...

Claire Rayner / Piccadilly (Large Paperback)

In the eleventh book in The Performers family saga the wedding between Letty Lackland's nephew Harry and Leah Landis, eight yearshis senior, provokes some uncharitable gossip. The Landis family,however, are more worried about the future of their cousins...

Geraldine O'Neill / Tara's Destiny (Large Paperback)

It's the start of the 1960s, and the world is changing. But for one woman, it seems things have changed too much already. From the bright-eyed girl growing up in a small Irish village, to the confident young woman running a fine English hotel, Tara's...

Barbara Taylor Bradford / The Wonder of It All (Large Paperback)

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Barbara Taylor Bradford / Secrets from the Past (Large Paperback)

Thirty-year-old Serena Stone is a talented war photographer who has followed in her famous father's footsteps. But when he dies unexpectedly, she steps away from the war zone to reassess her life. Drawn to Writing her father's own story, Serena...

Fern Michaels / Vegas Heat

With A Simple Twist Of Fate, Fortunes Rise And Fall. . .Vegas Heat is the story of the Thornton dynasty. . .of Fanny Thornton, who takes over Babylon, the family's magnificent Las Vegas casino, when her ex-husband Ash falls desperately ill. . .of Fanny's...

Rosie Clarke / Emma's Duty

Emma Reece is slowly adjusting to her husband's return from the war, even though his appalling injuries mean their marriage is in name only. But then tragedy strikes, and Emma finds she cannot turn to her long-standing friend and one-time lover, Jack...

Penny Thorpe / A Quality Street Christmas

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Elsie Mason / A Wedding for the Biscuit Factory Girls

Her wedding day should have been the happiest day of Mavis Kendricks' life. Marrying handsome Sam, the youngest of the Farley boys, means joining the Farley clan, and there's nothing Mavis has ever wanted more than a family of her own. But the appearance...

June Francis / Tilly's Story

Can she leave her troubles behind to find true happiness?In the aftermath of the Great War, many are searching for a new life. But has Tilly missed her only chance for love? Since the end of the First World War, the residents of Victoria Crescent have...

Joan Jonker / Man of the House

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Taylor Caldwell / Captains and the Kings. (Vintage Paperback)

Captains and the Kings was a 1972 historical novel by Taylor Caldwell chronicling the rise to wealth and power of an Irish immigrant, Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh, who emigrates as a penniless teenager to the United States, along with his younger brother...

Winston Graham / The Black Moon (Vintage Paperback) ( Poldark - Book 5 )

Cornwall 1794. The birth of a son to Elizabeth and George Warleggan serves only to accentuate the rift between the Poldark and Warleggan families. and when Morwenna Chynoweth, now governess to Elizabeth's eldest son, grows to love Drake Carne, Demelza's...

John Galsworthy / Maid in Waiting (Vintage Paperback) ( Forsythe Chronicles - Book 7 )

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Ellie Dean / Homecoming

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Jo Bartlett / Misletoe and Magic for the Cornish Midwife

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Elvi Rhodes / Summer Promise and Other Stories (Hardback)

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Maggie Ford / A Brighter Tomorrow

She has the chance for a new life, but will she take it?When their mother dies of pneumonia,Ellie and her younger sisterDora are left alone in the world. Their hard-drinking, womanizing father has abandoned them, and they cannot afford the rent on their...

Barbara Taylor Bradford / A Man of Honour (Large Paperback) ( Harte Family Saga - Prequel)

Orphaned and alone, 13-year-old Blackie O’Neill must leave County Kerry to find work and put food in his mouth. His only chance of survival lies with his mother’s brother, far away in Leeds. There, amid the noise and bustle, the mills and...

Maisie Thomas / A Christmas Miracle for the Railway Girls

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy / The Keepsake Quilters

One family. Three generations. And the threads that bind them together ...Ambitious TV producer Penny has always been a planner. She knows exactly what her future looks like - until anunexpected pregnancy forces her to rethink everything, especially her...

Katie Flynn / The Winter Rose

  The heatwarming festive follow-up to The Rose Queen, from beloved Sunday Times bestselling author Katie Flynn._____________________________________________Liverpool, 1941: After German bombs shatter the life Cadi has built for...

Maggie Ford / A New Dream

  Julia Longfield has a comfortable life. She lives on the fringes of the East End, in a prosperous and middle-class neighbourhood with her family, and is looking forward to the announcement of her engagement to Chester Morrison . But when Julia's...

Jennie Felton / The Smuggler's Girl

  If you enjoy Dilly Court or Rosie Goodwin, this one will be right up your street' reader review'One of the nation's favourite saga writers' Lancashire PostIn the grand tradition of Catherine Cookson, Josephine Cox and Poldark , comes a...

Claire Rayner / Paddington Green ( The Performers) (Large Paperback)

 The third book in the ‘Performers’ series sees Claire Rayner at her best, and showing her descriptive writing skill perfectly. The Lackland family are having to face major changes as the time passes and as children grow up and take...

E.V. Thompson / ( Omnibus Edition) Ben Retallick & Chase the Wind (Hardback) ( Retallick Saga - Books 1 & 2)

Ben Retallick In the tin mines of Cornwall, during the first decades of the 19th century, death is the constant companion of the working man. Ben Retallick has grown to sturdy manhood among the miners and fishermen, through the hard and hungry years...

Michael R. Phillips / Wayward Winds (Large Paperback)

 Estranged from her family, twenty-year-old Amanda Rutherford leaves Heathersleigh Hall for London, amid the dangers and excitement of the suffragette movement and an impending world war     All of our books are second hand, and while...

Barbara Taylor Bradford / Just Rewards (Large Paperback) (Harte Family Saga - Book 6 )

 Linnet O’Neill , great-granddaughter of Emma Harte, finds herself following in the footsteps of the original woman of substance as she battles to modernize the family business. Returning from her honeymoon full of fresh ideas for bringing the...

Catherine Cookson - Katie Mulholland - A Novel- HB 1st Edition - 1967

Some women are destined to arouse in men either fierce hatred or insatiable desire. Such a woman was Katie Mulholland. At fifteen, a scullery maid in the house of the Rosiers, she had been raped by the master. Now, many years later, she had enough money...

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles / The Long, Long Trail: War at Home, 1917 (Hardback)

 In 1917 the Great War rages on, and for the Hunters, their friends and their servants the war is where they live now.David has returned from the Front a shadow of his former self; his sister Diana, newly married, copes with pregnancy alone, her...

Anna Jacobs / Gifts for Our Time (Hardback)

 Germany 1939, and Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport, unsure that she'll ever see her beloved mother and father again. Once in England she is taken in by elderly Mrs Pelling, who grows to love Christa as the daughter she never had. But in...