Sagas

Fern Britton / Daughters of Cornwall

 The No.1 Sunday Times bestselling novel!Love can last a lifetime. But can it last three?1918World War One is over. But Clara's fight for her family is only just beginning...1947Clara's daughter, Hannah, is in love for the first time - but like her...

Margaret Mayhew / I'll Be Seeing You

  When Juliet Porter's mother dies, she leaves Juliet some old letters and a photograph which shatter all her previously-held beliefs. They show that her real father was an American bomber pilot in the second world war, some forty years before,...

Patricia Wilson / Secrets of Santorini

 If you love Lucinda Riley and Elizabeth Edmondson, you'll love this perfect summer read from the author of Islands of Secrets and Villa of Secrets.Sent away to a convent school in Dublin at the age of five, Irini McGuire has always had a strained...

Cecelia Ahern / Freckles (Large Paperback)

 Readers are dotty about Freckles - discover this 5-star read: 'Wow' 'Heartwarming' 'Uplifting' 'Thought-provoking' 'One of those rare, special and unique heroines' 'A joy to read'Shortlisted for the 2021 An Post Irish Book AwardsSometimes the...

Sheila Newberry / The Canal Boat Girl

 Previously published as The Summer Season and The Canal Girl.For fans of Katie Flynn and Dilly Court, The Canal Boat Girl is a heartwarming novel from the queen of family saga, and author of The Nursemaid's Secret.Wales, 1883.Young Ruth Owen, a...

Grace Thompson / False Friends

 Lowri Vaughan is in need of refuge - where better to find it than Badgers Brook?Rumours abound that her father is a fraudster, maybe even a murderer, but while he is indeed locked up, Lowri and her mother know he's an innocent man. Some...

Jeffrey Archer / Hidden in Plain Sight ( William Warwick - Book 2 )

 Filled with Jeffrey Archer's trademark twists and turns, Hidden in Plain Sight is the gripping next instalment in the life of William Warwick.Newly promoted, Detective Sergeant William Warwick has been reassigned to the drugs squad. His first case:...

Anna Jacobs / One Kind Man ( Ellindale Saga - Book 2 )

 Just one man can make all the difference . . .1931, Lancashire:When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child, he spends a few years travelling to keep the sad memories at bay. Just as he's ready to settle down again, his great-uncle dies and...

Sam Barone / Dawn of Empire

 Five millennia ago, on the eastern bank of the river Tigris, the course of human history changed forever . . .The people of Orak cherish their peaceful village and the life they have made. Though not proficient with the bow or sword, they possess a...

Rosie Clarke / Stormy Days On Mulberry Lane

 A problem shared, is always a problem halved on Mulberry Lane...LONDON 1950Peggy Ronoscki is happily settling back into life running her guesthouse on Mulberry Lane, surrounded by close friends and family.Life just seems too good...but then...

Elaine Everest / Christmas with the Teashop Girls

 Christmas with the Teashop Girls is a heartwarming and moving story of wartime love, bravery and hope, by the bestselling author of the Woolworths series, Elaine Everest.It is late 1940 and the war feels closer to home than ever for Rose Neville...

Joanna Toye / Wartime for the Shop Girls

 War brings changes three friends could never foresee...'Highly recommended' Anna Jacobs'A warm domestic drama' People's FriendIt's 1942 and as shortages of staff - and goods - begin to bite, young Lily Collins is nervously stepping up to sales...

Linda Calvey / The Locksmith (Large Paperback)

 With a foreword from Martina Cole, the Queen of CrimeMost authors write what they know. Linda Calvey writes what she lived.They grew up with nothing. Just a regular family scraping by, living an honest life while crime ruled the East End. Until all...

Ann OLoughlin / The Secrets of Roscarbury Hall (Large Paperback)

   A bestseller in the UK, this moving debut novel is a modern Philomena story of love, both lost and found.Secrets can't last forever. . . .In a crumbling mansion in a small Irish village in County Wicklow, two elderly sisters, Ella and...

Julian Lees / The Fan Tan Players

  THE FAN TAN PLAYERS opens in 1928 in Macao on a cyclone-drenched Quasimodo Sunday. Nadia Shashkova, now in her late twenties, but originally a child refugee from pre-revolutionary Russia, is contemplating her diminishing marital prospects. None...

Rita Bradshaw / Skylarks At Sunset

  Hope's just a child when she's orphaned, and as she grows up her dream is always to have a family of her own. And so when she meets and falls in love with Daniel Fallow, son of a successful businessman, she's quick to accept his proposal of his...

Monica McInerney / The Godmothers

 An absolutely beautiful book . . . Intriguing and uplifting' Marian Keyes'You think she can't get any better, but she does! The perfect read' Patricia Scanlan ___________In order to find out who her father is, Eliza has to discover who her mother...

Anna Jacobs / A Daughter's Journey

 Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia, still grieving her father's recent death. She's not intending to stay long, but after tracking down her distant family, Jo becomes more involved in village life than she could ever have imagined -...

Sally Worboyes / Red Sequins

 Sandy Brent seems to have everything going for her: she's a fulfilled young wife happily making a home for her husband. But her illusions are destroyed the day that Roy offers to drive her to work and, on the way, tells her that their marriage is...

Ann OLoughlin / The Secrets of De Courcy Square

 What if your life was built on a lie...?When Cora Gartland learns that long-term partner, Jack, has been killed in a car crash in Ireland her world falls apart. But she soon discovers that there was another woman in the car: a wife he'd never told...

Fiona Ford / The Spark Girl

 A compelling first novel which I promise you won't be able to put down' Daisy Styles, bestselling author of The Bomb GirlsCan her fight for the country fix her broken heart?A knock on the door early one morning wouldn't normally be cause for...

June Francis / It's Now or Never

 Some secrets can't stay buried forever...In 1942, two young women, Dorothy Wilson and Lynne Donegan, give birth in a home for unwed mothers. Thirteen years later, Dorothy is offered her first major role in a feature film and it becomes clear that...

Terri Nixon / A Cornish Promise

 'A brilliant read' RoNA award-winning, bestselling novelist Tania CrosseThe perfect treat for fans of Poldark, Dilly Court and Downton Abbey - discover the second in a heartwarming new series set in the 1920s in a glamorous hotel on the Cornish...

Christopher Bland / Ashes In The Wind (Large Paperback)

 Two boys are growing up in County Kerry, Irish Tomas Sullivan and Anglo-Irish John Burke, close friends from different tribes. This is Ireland in 1919, and their friendship will be torn apart in the War of Independence and in the Civil War that...

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...

June Francis / Memories Are Made of This

 Is she prepared for the answers she might find?Jeanette Walker's mother disappeared without a trace during a wartime bombing raid and for twelve years she has been left to wonder what happened to her. Was she killed outright, or did she choose to...

Margaret Thornton / Pastures New

 A new decade brings change and challenges for three friends... Having been firm friends ever since they met in a Blackpool boarding house, Val, Cissie and Janice are all now happily settled with their families.But the new decade brings changes for...

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...

June Francis / Many a Tear Has To Fall

 Will a new romance only lead to more heartbreak?With her modelling career in tatters and her long-term relationship with her sailor boyfriend at an end, Maggie Gregory returns to her family in Liverpool to decide what to do with the rest of her...

Vicki Beeby / Christmas with the Ops Room Girls

 When there's so much to be afraid of, can May help bring festive cheer to the Ops Room?After failing to help evacuee siblings whom she witnesses being separated, May wishes she'd had the confidence to speak up. When Jess suggests a pantomime to...

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,...

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...

Anna Jacobs / The Northern Lady

 When beautiful Cassandra Trent is told that she must join her aunt in London, the twenty-year-old is full of rage. Brought up in the Northern town of Bardsley, she wants nothing to do with polite society.But Cassandra forms a close relationship...

Anna Jacobs / A Stranger in Honeyfield

 1916: Bella is working as a Voluntary Aid driving ambulances in England when she gets engaged to Philip, on leave from fighting in France. His family strongly disapprove of her but the two of them are happy together.Georgie, Philip's sister, is in...

Sheila Newberry / The Punch and Judy Girl

 CAUGHT BETWEEN FAMILY AND DUTY - CAN SHE FOLLOW HER DREAM?Suffolk, 1925.After the death of her father, a much-loved Punch and Judy man, May Moon packs her bags and moves to the seaside in the hope of continuing his legacy.Already tasked with...

Rosemary Goodacre / Until We Can Forgive

 Spring 1919: WWI is over and a fragile peace has descended over the country. Now living in Cambridge with husband Edmond, Amy Derwent is settling into her new life as wife and mother to little Beth. But try as she might, the shadow of the Great War...

Maggie Mason / Blackpool Sisters

 Separated for years - will the Great War reunite them?The brand new novel by bestselling author Mary Wood, writing as Maggie Mason'In the grand tradition of sagas set down by the late and great Catherine Cookson ' Jean Fullerton on Blackpool...

Erica Brown / The Sugar Merchant's Wife

  In the face of changing fortunes, the Strong family must unite to keep their wealth and status: or risk losing it all.It's 1850 and cholera is sweeping through the streets of Bristol. Blanche and her husband are devastated by the loss of their...

Cathy Mansell / The Dublin Girls

 Dramatic, emotional and romantic, if you love Lorna Cook, Tracy Rees and Jenny Ashcroft, you'll love this gripping and heartrending novel from Cathy Mansell, author of A Place to Belong.'Glorious - a cross between Maeve Binchy and Catherine...

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...

Rosie Goodwin / Dilly's Hope

 Hardworking widow Dilly Carey has struggled out of poverty to make a successful life for herself. Surrounded by her children and grandchildren, Dilly should be content, but she is still troubled by the one secret she must never share. Olivia, the...

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...

Rosie Clarke / Rainy Days for the Harpers Girls

 Hard times ahead for the Harpers girls...It is two years since Harpers opened in Oxford Street and Ben is planning to expand the premises.Life is good for Sally and Ben as they look forward to their first child and hope for a prosperous future...

Lilian Harry / Springtime In Burracombe

 A warm and compelling tale, part of Lilian Harry's terrific Dartmoor-based series.The village of Burracombe is looking forward to the Coronation, but 1953 is to prove to be a year of heartbreak as well as celebration. While Stella begins to plan...

Mary Wood / The Jam Factory Girls

 The Jam Factory Girls is an uplifting and emotional novel of friendship set in the heart of pre-WWI London from bestselling author, Mary Wood.Life for Elsie is difficult as she struggles to cope with her alcoholic mother. Caring for her siblings...

Elaine Everest / The Woolworths Girls

 Can romance blossom in times of trouble?It's 1938 and as the threat of war hangs over the country, Sarah Caselton is preparing for her new job at Woolworths. Before long, she forms a tight bond with two of her colleagues: the glamorous Maisie and...

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

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Rosie Archer / We'll Meet Again

 Gosport, 1941. The Bluebird Girls - Rainey Bird, Bea Herron and Ivy Sparrow - are on their way to stardom. From working mens' clubs to the glamour of the Savoy Hotel, fame and fortune beckon as the south coast's favourite singing trio work to charm...

Lesley Pearse / Liar

 The enthralling new Sunday Times bestselling story of a young female journalist exposing murder and lies in her search for the truth, from the international bestseller Lesley PearseTHE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE WOMAN &...