Sagas

Patricia Scanlan / The Liberation of Brigid Dunne

 Published in the UK as A Family Reunion*** THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ***One explosive family reunion. A lifetime of secrets revealed.Spanning generations and covering seismic shifts in the lives of women, The Liberation of Brigid Dunne is a...

Susanna Bavin / A Respectable Woman

 After losing her family in the Great War, Nell is grateful to marry Stan Hibbert, believing she can recapture a sense of family with him. But five years on, she is just another back-street housewife, making every penny do the work of tuppence and...

Mary Collins / Ten Bells Street at War

  Can their friendship survive the struggles of war? 1940, the East End of London. Life is tough for the Ten Bells Street girls. Best friends from childhood, the three of them now find themselves scattered across London, surviving the war apart...

Rosie Goodwin / The Soldier's Daughter

 A family pulled apart. A love silenced . . .For as long as Briony Valentine can remember she has been soft on Eddie, the boy next door. But their chance of romance is stifled when the Luftwaffe begin dropping bombs on the midlands. Eddie is called...

Fern Britton / Daughters of Cornwall (Hardback)

 The No.1 Sunday Times bestselling novel!Three women. A chance to rewrite history...1918.The Great War is over, and Clara Carter has boarded a train bound for Cornwall - to meet a family that would once have been hers. But they must never discover...

Pamela Bell / Spring Comes to Emmerdale

 Enthralling. Spring Comes to Emmerdale is beautifully written and researched' - Lancashire Evening PostA must for fans of ITV's Emmerdale, and readers who love heartwarming and heartbreaking stories set during wartime.'Amazing! All the familiar...

Sarah Blake / The Guest Book (Hardback)

 Instant New York Times BestsellerLonglisted for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence2020 New England Society Book Award Winner for Fiction "The Guest Book is monumental in a way that few novels dare attempt." --The Washington Post The...

Sally Worboyes / Docker's Daughter

 An authentic and moving romantic saga set against the backdrop of the docks, streets, markets and pubs of Whitechapel, from the author of Wild Hops and The Dinner Lady.Young Kay Armstrong wants to break away from her tough East End background,...

Sue Moorcroft / Want to Know a Secret?

  Money, love and family. Which matters most? When Diane Jenner's husband is hurt in a helicopter crash, she discovers a secret that changes her life. And it's all about money, the kind of money the Jenners have never had. James North has money,...

Joan ONeill / A House Full of Women (Large Paperback)

  Queenie has not had an easy life. She opened her corner shop after a hasty marriage to a soldier who was returned to her after the war. Her daughter, Lorraine, ran off with a lion tamer who died and returned with baby Billy, Phil Healy makes a...

Lisa Beazley / Keep Me Posted (Large Paperback)

 Two sisters share the surprising highs and cringeworthy lows of social media fame, when their most private thoughts become incredibly public in this fresh and funny debut novel. The once-close Sunday sisters have not done a bang-up job of keeping...

Kate Furnivall / The Guardian of Lies (Large Paperback)

  *** THE TOP TEN BESTSELLING AUTHOR ***Discover a brilliant story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, from the internationally bestselling author of The Survivors.1953, the South of France. The fragile peace between the West and Soviet Russia...

Melanie Blake / Ruthless Women : The Sunday Times bestseller (Large Paperback)

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND THE HOTTEST BOOK OF 2021 'The new Queen of the bonkbuster' THE TIMES'Glitz, glamour and ambition ... Perfect' WOMAN & HOME'Does for TV what The Devil Wears Prada did for fashion' OK!'Shocking and utterly...

Lesley Pearse / You'll Never See Me Again

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND WOMAN & HOME BEST BOOKS OF SUMMER'Compelling, rich in detail and vividly told. Storytelling at its best' Daily ExpressBetty is running for her life.When Betty's husband returns from the war broken and haunted,...

Wilbur Smith / Ghost Fire

 In this brand new Courtney Series novel by bestselling author, Wilbur Smith, comes an epic story of tragedy, loss, betrayal and courage that brings the reader deep into the seething heart of the French and Indian War.1754. Inseparable since birth...

Josephine Cox / Two Sisters

 Don't miss the new book from Sunday Times bestselling author, Josephine Cox!The pretty Arnold sisters have grown up on their father's farm and yearn for something more out of life than drudgery and toil.Ellen, loyal and honest, is her father's...

Jamie Ford / Songs of Willow Frost

  Twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese-American, has lived at Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage since his mother disappeared five years ago. During a trip to the movie theatre, William glimpses an actress on the silver screen who goes by the...

J. M. ONeill / Bennett and Company (Large Paperback)

  Set in the troubled days of 1928 in Limerick in the aftermath of the Civil War, this rivetting novel concerns a Protestant merchant family, a Catholic family of reasonable wealth, and inter-marriage. In the eyes of diehards, both families are...

Cassandra Parkin / The Summer We All Ran Away

 The story is fresh and original, written vividly and with flair. I was completely engrossed!' --Katherine Webb, international best-selling author'Beautiful... A fascinating tale of the meeting of lost souls. Of danger, and trust and self-worth...

Rita Bradshaw / Always I'll Remember

  It's 1939 and Abigail Vickers, enjoying her promising new job in an office, is overjoyed when she meets James Benson there and they both fall completely in love. But life for Abby is a constant struggle against her dominant and selfish mother,...

June Francis / Where There's a Will

 When a daughter has no home can she ever hope to find happiness?Despite being part of the large O'Donnell family Milly has felt alone in the world since her father went missing in the Irish Civil War. Now, ten years later she is forced to flee her...

Wilbur Smith / Courtney's War

 An action-packed Courtney Series novel, and the much-anticipated sequel to the global bestseller WAR CRYTorn apart by war, Saffron Courtney and Gerhard von Meerbach are thousands of miles apart, both struggling for their lives.Gerhard - despite his...

Colm OGaora / A Crooked Field

      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...

Jacek Dehnel / Lala (Hardback)

 A lyrical and moving Polish family saga set against the turbulent backdrop of twentieth-century EuropeLala has lived a dazzling life. Born in Poland just after the First World War and brought up to be a perfect example of her class and generation -...

Pamela Evans / When the Lights Go Down

 The irresistible, heartwarming new saga from Pam Evans, the bestselling author of IN THE DARK STREETS SHINING.It is 1938 and the threat of war looms on the streets of London. But, when the lights go down in the cinema aisles, usherette Daisy Blake...

Anne Doughty / Second Chance at the Belfast Guesthouse

 Will love be enough to overcome the odds?It is 1960 and Clare Hamilton is returning home to her beloved Armagh to marry Andrew, her childhood sweetheart. Full of the hope and possibilities of a newlywed couple, they plan to turn Andrew's ancestral...

Anna Jacobs / Gifts For Our Time

 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 1945...

Josephine Cox / Somewhere, Someday (Hardback)

  Kelly knew that, although Barny would always love her, his restless soul would not allow him to stay, but she could never have envisaged how his leaving would alter her life. Alone once more, Kelly finds herself remembering the past,...

Elaine Everest / The Butlins Girls

 A comforting story set against the nation's favourite holiday camp, from bestselling author of The Woolworths Girls'Molly Missons gazed around in awe. So this was Butlin's. Whitewashed buildings, bordered by rhododendrons, gave a cheerful feeling...

Lynda Page / Those Were The Days

 Those Were the Days is Lynda Page's fourth saga set in Jolly's holiday camp. It brings the nostalgia of English summer holidays beside the seaside in the 1960s vividly to life.There's seldom a dull moment at Jolly's holiday camp in high season,...

Sally Worboyes / At the Mile End Gate

 The Second World War is over and the troops are coming home in this compelling family saga - but so much has changed . . .The war is over and the soldiers are coming back to the bomb-ravaged East End. Tom Smith is one of the thousands who are...

Sylvia Broady / The Lost Daughter

 Alice Goddard runs through dark, rain-lashed streets with one thing in mind: her daughter. In her panic to escape her pursuer, she is hit by a car and rushed to hospital. When she wakes, she has no idea who she is, but dreams of being hunted by a...

Andrew OHagan / Our Fathers

  Hugh Bawn was a modern hero, a dreamer, a man of the people who revolutionized Scotland's residential development after World War II. Now, as he lies dying in one of his own buildings, his grandson Jamie comes home to watch over him. It is...

Jennifer Clement / The Poison That Fascinates

  Abandoned by her mother as a baby, Emily now lives with her father in Mexico City. She works in the local Catholic orphanage. Life is simple. But when an enigmatic cousin, Santi, appears on the doorstep he brings family secrets, and soon Emily...

Elizabeth Woodcraft / The Girls from Greenway

 A dramatic and nostalgic saga of two sisters coming of age in 1960s Essex.Angie Smith lives in Greenway, Chelmsford, with her elder sister Doreen, their struggling mother and their drunk, violent father. Bored of her job, and of her dull, ordinary...

Rita Bradshaw / Born to Trouble

 All she wants is a better life...Born in Sunderland's filthy, crime-ridden East End, Pearl Croft's childhood is desperately troubled. When her violent, drunken father is killed in a fight and Pearl's elder brothers are sent to prison, she is left...

Mary Wood / The Street Orphans

 Originally published in digital format as Judge Me Not in 2013. Now with forty pages of new content.Born with a club foot in a remote village in the Pennines, Ruth is feared and ridiculed by her superstitious neighbours who see her affliction as a...

Isabella Connor / Beneath an Irish Sky

  The past is never over - Jack Stewart thought he'd put the past behind him. On the surface, he has everything - success, money, a big house and he is never short of an attractive woman by his side, but a tragic road accident shatters his world...

Terri Nixon / Penhaligon's Gift

 The thrilling third installment in Terri Nixon's Penhaligon Saga series - perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries, Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin.Cornwall, 1911. Freya Penhaligon is eagerly awaiting the return of her beau, the historian Tristan...

Kerry Fisher / The Silent Wife

  In this heart-wrenching, emotionally gripping USA Today bestseller, a woman with a seemingly perfect life finds a mysterious letter that reveals dark secrets from the past that threaten to destroy her family. Lara's life looks perfect on the...

Diane Allen / For A Mother's Sins

 It is 1870 and railway workers and their families have flocked to the wild and inhospitable moorland known as Batty Green to build a viaduct on the Midland Railway Company's ambitious new Leeds to Carlisle Line.Among them are three very different...

Harry Bowling / Conner Street's War

  Behind the grimy wharves of Londons dockland lies Conner Street, home to a close-knit community where women stand gossiping in doorways, small boys play marbles on the cobbles and the dockers pop down to the Eagle for a quick pint. Corner shops...

Anna Jacobs / Licence to Dream

 Meriel grows up in England a tomboy, helping her beloved grandfather with DIY projects. At school she discovers a talent and love for art, but her mother forces her to become an accountant. She's good at that too, but her heart just isn't in it...

Anna Jacobs / Marrying a Stranger

 When Megan and Ben meet the attraction is instantaneous. The only problem? Ben is bound for Australia in just a week's time!Determined not to let what they've just found go, Ben suggests they get married so that she can go with him. Megan is...

Gwen Madoc / No Child of Mine

  Swansea, 1920. When the death of her father catapults Bethan Pryce into the heart of a feud between her mother, Esme, and Esme's sister, Mae, her world is turned upside down in an instant. It is a feud that has been raging since Mae married Dan...

Ellen Feldman / Next to Love (Large Paperback)

 Babe, Grace and Millie have been best friends since their first day at their small town's only kindergarten. Despite their differences, they've played together, grown up together, shared each other's secrets. And when World War Two becomes a...

Jeffrey Archer / Heads You Win (Hardback)

 Chosen as one of the best books of 2018 by the Mail on Sunday'The master storyteller returns with a nail-biter every bit as good as Kane and Abel - utterly enthralling' - Joanna LumleyHeads You Win is the incredible and thrilling novel by the...

Catrin Collier / Tiger Ragtime

  Judy Hamilton was born in the Cardiff docklands. Homeless after the death of her grandmother, she finds friendship, work and lodgings with Edyth Slater, above her bakery in Cardiff's colourful Tiger Bay. While attempting to make her way in a...

Sally Worboyes / Over Bethnal Green

  Jessie Warner has married Tom Smith and their baby is almost due. Settling down into their new home in Bethnal Green, Jessie looks forward to her new life even though Tom is continually getting into mischief that borders on the downright...

Kate OBrien / Without My Cloak

  When Anthony Considine creeps into Mellick town with a stolen horse in 1789, it sets the destiny of his family for decades to come. By the 1850s, through thrift and hard work, his son Honest John has made the Considines a leading Mellick family...

Henry Williamson / The Power of the Dead

  It is 1926 and Phillip and Lucy are living at Skirr Farm, only too aware of the difficulties of industrial unrest and the agricultural depression. When Phillip manages to steal some time for writing, he finds himself again at the battlegrounds...

Penny Thorpe / The Quality Street Girls

 A delicious and heartwarming novel featuring the girls working at the nation's favourite wrapped chocolate factory.At sixteen years old, Irene 'Reenie' Calder is delighted to land a seasonal job at Mackintosh's Quality Street factory but trouble...