Sagas

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...

Emma Hornby / A Mother's Dilemma

 Gritty and page-turning historical saga set in Northern England in the late 1800s, for fans of Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin.Minnie Maddox cares deeply for mothers and their babies - she makes a living by taking in unwanted children and finding...

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...

Rosie Goodwin / A Precious Gift

 The heartwarming new wartime saga from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Maiden's Voyage.'A vibrant page-turner with entrancing characters' Margaret Dickinson'Rosie writes such heartwarming sagas' Lyn AndrewsNuneaton, 1911When Holly...

Annie Groves / Wartime for the District Nurses

 The compelling new bestseller from the author of The Mersey Daughter and Winter on the Mersey.Alice Lake and her friend Edith have had everything thrown at them in their first year as district nurses in London's East End. From babies born out of...

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...

Winston Graham / The Four Swans

 The Four Swans is the sixth novel in Winston Graham's sweeping series of Cornwall, Poldark.Cornwall 1795-1797. Although Ross Poldark - now something of a war hero - seems secure in his hard-won prosperity, a new dilemma faces him in the sudden...

Gloria Cook / Reflections

 When an old lover reappears, it has far-reaching consequences for those in PortcowlBeth Tresalie has been happily reconciled with her estranged mother for over a year, and is looking forward to her best friend Kitty Copeland spending Christmas with...

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

 Hidden in Plain Sight is the second brilliant and captivating novel featuring William Warwick by the master storyteller and bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer. Newly promoted, Detective Sergeant William Warwick has been...

Nadine Dorries / The Angels of Lovely Lane (Large Paperback)

 'As heart-warming as it is heartbreaking, this novel is unputdownable' Sunday Express. It is 1953 and five very different girls are arriving at the nurses' home in Lovely Lane, Liverpool, to start their training at St Angelus Hospital. Dana has...

Lindsey Hutchinson / Minnie's Orphans

 Let bestselling author Lindsey Hutchinson transport you back in time to Marshall's Children's Home, for this heart-warming and unforgettable tale from the Black Country.The Fitch children are finally safe, after they and their friends were rescued...

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,...

June Francis / Shadows of the Past

 A tragic death brings good fortune to an orphaned child - but at what cost?Liverpool, 1928. Fifteen-year-old Annie Anderson was adopted by Sylvia and Hugh after the death of their own daughter. Annie is told that her own mother in childbirth and...

Val Wood / A Place to Call Home

 Ellen thought she'd always live in the remote, pretty coastal village where she grew up. After all, her husband, Harry, works on a farm where he's guaranteed a job and home for life.But when the old landowner dies and the couple and their young...

Lindsey Hutchinson / The Children from Gin Barrel Lane

 Ten-year-old Jack Larkin has seen more than his fair share of shocking sights, growing up in the notorious Crown Saloon.Broken hearts and broken bones are just a fact of life in a Gin Palace, but for orphan Dolly, the Crown is her last hope.After...

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...

Diane Allen / Daughter of the Dales

 A moving Yorkshire saga, Daughter of the Dales is the much anticipated finale in Diane Allen's Windfell Manor Trilogy.The death of the family matriarch, Charlotte Atkinson, at Windfell Manor casts a long shadow over Charlotte's husband Archie and...

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...

Claire Lorrimer / Ortolans

 Ortolans, a magnificent stately home that holds a mysterious grip on all those who live in it, hides a secret that has lain undiscovered for four hundred years.Three passionate, remarkable women play a vital part in the long, violent history of the...

Freda Lightfoot / Polly's Pride

 From Sunday Times bestselling author, Freda Lightfoot. From brief riches to rural rags and ruin...1920s, Manchester. Living in the deprived area of Ancoats area of Manchester Polly Pride feels more fortunate than most until her husband Matthew...

Eileen Ramsay / The G.I. Bride

 If you love Donna Douglas' Nightingale Girls and the nurses of Nadine Dorries' Lovely Lane, be prepared to fall in love with April, Eugenie, Bess and Nancy as they band together to support each other through love, loss and scandal.In wartime, can...

Winston Graham / Demelza

 Demelza is the second book in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series, which has become a television phenomenon starring Aidan Turner.Demelza Carne, the impoverished miner's daughter Ross Poldark rescued from a fairground rabble, is now his...

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...

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...

Anna Jacobs / Winds of Change

 When her elderly father dies, Miranda Fox is free at last. He's promised an inheritance that will give her independence. But her domineering half-brother controls the money and has very different ideas as to how she should live her life. A new...

Barbara Delinsky / Before and Again (Large Paperback)

 THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROMNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR BARBARA DELINSKY'Fans of Jodi Picoult will love this.' Daily Express'Warm, rich, textured and impossible to put down.' Nora Roberts'A compelling, emotional read about love, loss, and...

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...

Nicola Cassidy / Adele

 1973: Californian journalist Ellie Morgan sets out on a mission toresearch the life of Adele Astaire, famed 1920s dancer and comedienne,older sister to Fred Astaire. She uncovers a wealth of material fromthe people who knew her.1905: Eight-year-old...

Julian Fellowes / Belgravia (Large Paperback)

 On the evening of 15 June 1815, the great and the good of British Society have gathered in Brussels at what is to become one of the most tragic parties in history - the Duchess of Richmond's ball. For this is the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, and...

Penny Vincenzi / Something Dangerous (Large Paperback)

  The dazzling Lytton twins, Adele and Venetia, grow up with the world at their feet. Born into the great Lytton publishing empire, they are rich and admired, with a confidence verging on arrogance. At eighteen, in 1928, their future seems...

Teresa Crane / Siena Summer

  Set in Kent and Italy, this is the moving story of the lives of sisters Poppy and Isobel. 1918: WWI has just ended and the young sisters both fall in love with Kit, an injured airman - Poppy with an adolescent love, and Isobel with an adult...

Susan Sallis / The Apple Barrel

  Hope and Jack Langley seem like a couple who have it all. Soon after they marry and move into an idyllic Gloucestershire village, Hope discovers she is pregnant. The glamorous Petersons, Henrik and Mandy, appear as new neighbours, and both...

Lily Baxter / In Love And War

      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...

Anna Jacobs / Persons of Rank

 Persons of rank do not fall in love!So declares the Dowager as she sends her niece Beatrice to London in search of a suitable husband for her granddaughter, Eleanor.Armed with a list of candidates, shy Beatrice embarks on her first season - and...

Harry Bowling / Gaslight in Page Street

  Page Street, a shabby, cobbled and gaslit Bermondsey backstreet is home to a diverse and close-knit community fighting an ongoing battle against poverty, hunger and the devastating effects of the Great War. George Galloway owns a cartage...

Catrin Collier / Sinners and Shadows

 Orphaned at eight, raised by a brutal sadistic brother, nineteen-year-old parlour maid, Rhian, dreams of meeting a man who will love her and give her what she wants more than anything else in the world, a family of her own. When she is invited to...

Vicki Beeby / The Ops Room Girls

 When Evie's dreams come crashing down, she's determined to still make something of herself in these trying times... It is 1939 and working class Evie Bishop has received a scholarship to study mathematics at Oxford when tragedy turns her life...

Elizabeth Lord / The Bowmaker Girls

  Set against the background of the Essex Coast, this saga charts the lives of a fishing family, the Bowmakers, during the depression. Danny and his four sisters are often daunted, but never beaten. Other titles by this author include "The...

Sheila Newberry / The Meadow Girls

 Previously published as The Watercress GirlsA warm-hearted and nostalgic family saga from the bestselling author of THE WINTER BABY and THE NURSEMAID'S SECRET.Suffolk, 1914Twelve-year-old Mattie and her little sister Evie lead an idyllic life in...

Virginia Andrews / Into the Darkness

  As lovely as one of the precious gems at her parents' jewellery store, Amber Taylor is shy and introspective - qualities misread by others as being stuck-up and superior. Facing a long, lonely summer working at the family shop, Amber's world...

Rose Doyle / Gambling With Darkness

  It is 1944. Honor Cusack is a first-year medical student at University College Dublin. She becomes involved with a young German doctor, Oscar Raeder, who has been studying in Dublin since before the war, and supports him when he is suspected of...

Kate Williams / The Edge of the Fall

 In the aftermath of the Great War, the de Witt family are struggling to piece together the shattered fragments of their lives.Rudolf and his wife Verena, still reeling from the loss of their second son, don't know how to function in the post-war...

Santa Montefiore / The Last Secret of the Deverills (Large Paperback)

 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...

Roxie Cooper / The Day We Met

 'With overtones of One Day, this hugely readable novel is by turns fun, painfully honest and oh-so emotional' Fabulous Magazine'An unforgettable will-they-won't-they love story that will make your heart sing' Isabelle BroomStephanie and Jamie are...

Santa Montefiore / The Secret Hours (Large Paperback)

 The enchanting new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Santa Montefiore. The perfect summer read for 2019!'Let the wind take me and the soft rain settle me into the Irish soil from where I came. And may my sins be forgiven.'Arethusa Clayton...

Nadine Dorries / The Children Of Lovely Lane (Large Paperback)

 The second gripping novel in the Lovely Lane series, from bestselling author Nadine Dorries. Perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Catherine Cookson. The nurses of Lovely Lane - Dana, Victoria, Pammy and Beth - are now in their second year and are...

Elizabeth Jane Howard / Love All

 A beautiful, very moving, melancholic and elegiac novel set in the late 1960s in Melton, a small town in the West Country. The story revolves around a disparate group of people who come together there to establish an arts festival. There is Jack...