Sagas

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Wilbur Smith / King of Kings

 An epic story of love, betrayal, courage and war that brings together two of Wilbur Smith's greatest families in this long-awaited sequel to his worldwide bestseller, The Triumph of the Sun.Cairo, 1887. A beautiful September day. Penrod Ballantyne...

John Stack / Captain of Rome (Large Paperback)

  The second installment of the thrilling maritime adventure; two mighty empires battle each other for control of the high seas. Atticus is the young captain of the Aquila, the flagship of the attack fleet of the Roman navy. But his commander is...

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

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Anna Jacobs / A Widow's Courage

 Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death, Stella comes into some money unexpectedly and decides to make a new start in the country. She settles on Ellin Valley, where she quickly begins to make friends. She falls in love with a...

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...

Geraldine O'Neill / Music Across the Mersey

 When a Dublin family is torn apart, can a new start in Liverpool help heal the wounds?1940s DublinHandsome widower Johnny Cassidy is out of work, broken-hearted and lost as to how to look after his four children. At his lowest ebb, he's forced to...

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...

Anna Jacobs / One Perfect Family

 One Perfect Family . . . can bring a whole village togetherLancashire, 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money, he can finally realise his dream of settling down in the beautiful village of Ellindale.Tam knows he can be...

Elisabeth McNeill / St James' Fair

 When a chance for freedom arrives will she dare to take it? Odilie Rutherford is known in the small Scottish town of Lauriston for two things - her beauty, and her father, Canny. As a self-made man, Canny has the wealth he dreamed of but not the...

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...

Mary Nichols / The Girl on the Beach

 Julie Monday, abandoned by her mother and raised in a children's home, enjoys a rare moment of happiness when at the age of eight she visits the Essex seaside and meets eleven-year-old Harry Walker. They spend a happy few hours together, but at the...

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...

Jean Fullerton / A Ration Book Childhood

 In the darkest days of the Blitz, family is more important than ever.With her family struggling amidst the nightly bombing raids in London's East End, Ida Brogan is doing her very best to keep their spirits up. The Blitz has hit the Brogans hard,...

Alexandra Connor / The Watchman's Daughter

 When those you love depend on you, how much would you be willing to sacrifice?Alexandra Connor writes a moving saga in The Watchman's Daughter - a tale of true love, set against the backdrop of the Second World War. Perfect for fans of Josephine...

Mary Larkin / Sworn To Secrecy

 1971. With the troubles in Belfast at their height, a happy domestic life is something that Tess Maguire yearns for. Yet the political and social unrest are sending ripples of uncertainty through every aspect of her life. Whilst her partnership...

Ann O'Loughlin / The Ludlow Ladies' Society

  American Connie Carter has lost everybody and everything dear to her. She moves to Ludlow Hall, Wicklow, Ireland to nurse her grieving heart and find answers. There, she meets Eve and Hetty and is introduced to The Ludlow Ladies Society. Can...

Cathy Sharp / A Daughter's Dream

 Heartache and hardship in London's East End, from the bestselling author of The Orphans of Halfpenny StreetAmy Robinson and her fiance Matthew are struggling to resist the temptations faced by a soon-to-be-wed couple. To avoid these, Matthew throws...

Gloria Cook / Touch the Silence

 A family shattered by war and secrets... But hope is on the horizon1917. The First World War casts its shadow over the Harvey family of Ford Farm. One brother has already been killed, and Tristan now serves at the Front.Though newly engaged to...

Cathy Sharp / A Daughter's Choice

 Heartache and hardship in London's East End, from the bestselling author of The Orphans of Halfpenny StreetKathy Cole, is a determined young woman. She refuses to stay at home with her bitter, drunken father and is instead determined to do her bit...

Rita Bradshaw / Gilding the Lily

 A heartrending tale of two sisters and their quest for a place to belong, from much-loved author Rita Bradshaw.Lily and Sarah Brown's childhood is an unhappy one. Sarah escapes by marrying Ralph Turner, a Sunderland dock worker, but Lily doesn't...

Iris Gower / Proud Mary

  Mary Jenkins had dragged herself up from humble beginnings--first to be overseer in the Canal Street laundry, then to run her own market stall in Sweyn's Eye. But constantly fate--and the Sutton brothers--knocked her down again. Dean Sutton was...

Geraldine O'Neill / Music from Home (Large Paperback)

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Ann O'Loughlin / An Ocean Between Us (Large Paperback)

 What if your life was built on a lie...?When Cora Gartland learns that her long-term partner, Jack, has been killed in a car crash in Ireland her world falls apart. But then she is told that there was a woman in the car with him, a woman identified...

Grace Thompson / Valley Affairs

 A touching story of Welsh village life.Cockney born Nelly Luke is an essential part of the community. Yet not even Nelly, with her shrewd eye, can predict the surprises in store for her family and friends.A new year brings new faces: Maurice Davies...

Colm Toibin / House of Names

THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Unforgettable' Mary Beard'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her muffled...

Marian Keyes / The Mystery of Mercy Close (Large Paperback)

 "I employ this thing called The Shovel List." "A shovel...?" "No. A Shovel List." "It's more of a conceptual thing. It's a list of all the people and things I hate so much that I want to hit them in the face with a shovel." Meet Helen - youngest of...

Elizabeth Jeffrey / Cast A Long Shadow

 The year is 1916 and twenty-year-old Poppy Barlow is clearing the desk of her late father when she comes across a faded photograph of her father with his two sisters - aunts that Poppy never knew she had - along with their address. Poppy contacts...

Annie Murray / Sisters of Gold

 Sisters of Gold is an emotional and heart-warming story with a richly imagined Birmingham setting, from Annie Murray, author of The Doorstep Child.Sisters Margaret and Annie lost their mother years ago, they long for her every day. Their protective...

Tracy Chevalier / At the Edge of the Orchard (Large Paperback)

 The sweeping and compelling new novel from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.'Dark, brutal, moving, powerful' Jane Harris'A wonderful book; rich, evocative, original. I loved it' Joanne HarrisWhat happens when you can't run any...

Lesley Pearse / You'll Never See Me Again (Large Paperback)

 The enthralling new novel from the 10-million-copy No. 1 bestselling author.Betty Wellows is running for her life . . .Young Betty dreams of settling down to an ordinary life in Hallsands with her fisherman husband. But when he returns broken and...

Jeffrey Archer / Nothing Ventured (Large Paperback) ( William Warwick Series - Book 1 )

      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...

Freda Lightfoot / The Woman from Heartbreak House

  The Great War is over and Kate is ready to welcome back Eliot with open arms. But her husband is a changed man. Kate has become used to her independence, and to running the shoe factory and Eliot's return creates tensions both at work and at...

Michel Deon / Foundling Boy

  It is 1919. On a summer's night in Normandy, a new-born baby is left in a basket outside the home of Albert and Jeanne Arnaud. The childless couple take the foundling in, name him Jean, and decide to raise him as their own, though his parentage...

Dilly Court / The Swan Maid

 The brand new compelling novel from the Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly Court.Lottie Lane is all alone in the world. As a chambermaid at one of London's busiest inns, condemned to a life of drudgery and at the mercy of a vicious landlady, Lottie is...

Jeffrey Archer / Heads You Win

 Heads You Win is the incredible and thrilling novel by the master storyteller and bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer.Leningrad, Russia, 1968.From an early age it is clear that Alexander Karpenko is...

Carol Rivers / A Promise Between Friends

 1953: Pretty, ambitious, 19-year-old Ruby Payne and her lifelong friend Kath Rigler are eager to enjoy their post-war independence. Moving away from home to a flat the East End of London is a chance to break free for them both: Kath from her...

Danielle Steel / Fairytale

 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A wonderful, beautifully told tale from America's favorite novelist, Fairytale is a captivating example of the truths that will always withstand even the darkest storms, and a reminder that sometimes fairytales do come...