Sagas

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...

Annie Murray / Girls in Tin Hats

 1940 - Small Heath, in the heart of Birmingham, is facing the darkest days of the war.Two very different girls from this tight-knit community join up as ARP wardens to do their bit for the Home Front.Violet Simms lives with her controlling, widowed...

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...

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...

Rita Bradshaw / The Storm Child

 From the top-ten bestselling author of One Snowy Night, Rita Bradshaw, comes The Storm Child, a sweeping family saga set during the run up to WW2 in the north-east of England.It's mid-winter, and in the throes of a fierce blizzard Elsie Redfern and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Elizabeth Murphy / There is a Season

 The final instalment of the breathtaking Liverpool Sagas, perfect for fans of Helen Forrester and Pam Howes Cathy is glad to have her husband back now The Great War is over, but her son John is not so sure. Struggling to keep the peace, Cathy has...

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...

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...

Jennie Felton / The Stolen Child

 'One of the nation's favourite saga writers' Lancashire Post'A real heartbreaker' Peterborough Telegraph'Brimming with high drama, anguish, love, loss, tragedy, and gripping twists and turns, this is an absorbing and poignant story... Felton, a...

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...

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...

Nora Roberts / Chesapeake Blue : Number 4 in series

  International best-selling author Nora Roberts's latest novel Chesapeake Blue is part of the Chesapeake Bay quartet featuring the Quinn brothers. The first ten years of Seth Quinn's life had been a prison of fear, abuse and neglect. It had made...

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...

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...

Maggie Mason / Blackpool Lass

 'In the grand tradition of sagas set down by the late and great Catherine Cookson'Jean FullertonBlackpool's Angel - the first book in Maggie Mason's brand new Sandgronian trilogy - is OUT NOW.Maggie Mason is the pen name of bestselling author Mary...

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...

June Francis / A Daughter's Choice

 Seventeen year old Katie is about to discover a devastating family secret...Katie is the apple of her mother's eye and is being groomed to take over the family business. But when Celia, her natural mother, re-enters her life, her world is turned...

Merryn Allingham / The Nurse's War

 Working round the clock for her country1941: As a nurse in the rubble-strewn East end of London, Daisy Driscoll is a first-hand witness to the trauma of the Second World War. All she can do during the Blitz is to protect herself - and do her best...

Kitty Neale / A Daughter's Disgrace

 A heartrending story of family shame from Sunday Times bestseller, Kitty Neale. A gritty London tale, perfect for fans of Katie Flynn, Nadine Dorries and Maureen Lee.1950s Battersea is no place for a shamed woman...FracturedAlison is the ugly...

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...

Annie Murray / The Silversmith's Daughter

 Courage, passion, ambition and tragedy under the storm clouds of war from the top ten bestselling author.It is 1915 and Daisy Tallis, headstrong, impassioned and a talented young silversmith, is desperate to make her parents proud. The family...

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...