Sagas

Kristin Hannah / Winter Garden

 Sometimes when you open the door to your mother's past, you find your own future . . .Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a...

Jean Fullerton / A Ration Book Dream : Previously Published as Pocketful of Dreams

 PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS POCKETFUL OF DREAMS ________________________________________The first instalment in a delightfully nostalgic saga set during World War 2, following the trials and tribulations of a larger-than-life East End family...

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...

Freda Lightfoot / The Child from Nowhere

 As the Great War looms, will the women of Kendal rise to meet the challenge?After giving birth to her daughter, Kate O'Connor finds herself back in Poor House Lane with some momentous decisions to make. Faced with the opportunity to move out of...

Nadine Dorries / Hide Her Name

      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...

Sheila Newberry / The Forget-Me-Not Girl : A heartwarming family saga from the author of The Nursemaid's Secret

 A warm-hearted and nostalgic family saga from the author of The Winter Baby and The Nursemaid's Secret, perfect for fans of Katie Flynn. When her family is torn apart, can she find her place in the world?Emma is growing up in the beautiful Norfolk...

Judy Astley / No Place For A Man

 Jess has just waved goodbye to her darling son, off backpacking to Oz. She's left with two teenage daughters and husband Matt - all of whom find themselves regularly featured in her popular and lighthearted newspaper column in which she conveys to...

Margaret Dickinson / Daughters of Courage

 Love blossoms under the storm clouds of war Following the gripping story of the Ryan family in Margaret Dickinson's top ten bestseller The Buffer Girls, Daughters of Courage sees Emily and Trip fight to keep their new life afloat in the turbulent...

Lyn Andrews / From Liverpool With Love : A moving and heartwarming saga that will move you to tears

 Lyn Andrews' Sunday Times bestseller FROM LIVERPOOL WITH LOVE is a nostalgic and dramatic saga perfect for readers of Dilly Court and Katie Flynn In 1920s Liverpool, Jane, her little brother Alfie and their mother Ellen have faced the horrors of...

Maureen Lee / The Kelly Sisters (Hardback)

   It's 1925 and Patricia, Tara and Aideen couldn't be more excited about leaving Dublin with their father and heading for a new life in Liverpool. Yet it soon becomes clear that all is not as it seems, for the day after they arrive in...

Rosie Goodwin / A Maiden's Voyage : The heart-warming Sunday Times bestseller (Hardback)

   'A vibrant page-turner with entrancing characters' Margaret Dickinson'Rosie writes such heartwarming sagas' Lyn AndrewsThursday's child has far to go . . .1912, London.Eighteen-year-old Flora Butler is going up in the world. She has the...

Margaret Graham / Somewhere Over England

   A heart-wrenching wartime novel of shame, betrayal, loyalty and love. Previously published as A Fragment of Time.In England in the 1930s, eighteen-year-old Helen Carstairs braves the prejudice of friends and family to marry Heine, a young...

Anna Jacobs / A Time to Remember

   The first book in a heartwarming new Lancashire-based series by beloved and bestselling saga writer Anna Jacobs, set at the end of World War Two.1945 - the war in Europe is over. It should be a time of utter joy and celebration.Most women...

Josephine Cox / A Woman's Fortune (Large Paperback)

   The new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Josephine Cox - the master storyteller.Finding a new beginning means taking the hardest road...but the journey is where you find your true courage.Torn away from their beloved home, the...

Anna Jacobs / One Special Village :

   One Special Village . . . can make the world a better placeLancashire, 1932Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie, scrimping and saving to get by. But after she suffers a violent asthma attack, the...

Alex Brunkhorst / The Gilded Life Of Matilda Duplaine

   Family secrets. Forbidden love. And the true price of wealth.Thomas is a small-town boy and when Lily invites him to a dinner party, he gains access to the exclusive upper echelons of Hollywood society. As he enters a world of private jets...

Margaret Graham / Somewhere Over England

   A heart-wrenching wartime novel of shame, betrayal, loyalty and love. Previously published as A Fragment of Time.In England in the 1930s, eighteen-year-old Helen Carstairs braves the prejudice of friends and family to marry Heine, a young...

Pip Granger / The Widow Ginger

 It is 1954, the year Roger Bannister won the four-minute mile. Rosie, and her beloved Auntie Maggie are opening up their cafe in Old Compton Street for Uncle Bert's breakfast special when the Widow Ginger comes to call.The Widow Ginger, an ex-GI...

Wendy Robertson / My Dark-Eyed Girl

    After nursing in the Spanish Civil War, Susan is relieved to set foot on English soil again. By her side is a beautiful, young Spanish woman, Chichu, who has lost her whole family in the fight against Franco and only kept her own life...

Margaret Kaine / Ribbon of Moonlight

   When her beloved grandfather dies in 1958, Polly Merton is forced to share her home with a woman she scarcely knows: the mother who abandoned her. Sadie Merton, glamorous and selfish, has her own set of morals and Polly is appalled by her...

Hendrick Groen / The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1

   The hilarious international bestselling novel that has had pensioners ditching their sticks and zimmers to follow the age-defying, youth inducing antics inside The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old . . .'Terrific. This...

Rebecca Dean / Enemies of the Heart

 A sweeping epic of love, desire and betrayal. The perfect read for fans of THE CROWN.June 1909, in a large Berlin mansion, cousins Zelda and Vicky are about to meet brothers Berthold and Josef for the first time - an evening that will alter the...

Duncan Sprott / The House of the Eagle

    "The House of the Eagle" begins Duncan Sprott's "Ptolemies Quartet", an epic and ingenious restoration of the dark and glittering story of ancient Alexandria and the Greek Pharaohs of Egypt, whose extraordinary dynasty spans twelve...

Catherine Law / Map of Stars

   'A touching tale of star-crossed lovers' New magazine Book of the Week. A tear-jerking love story for fans of Kathryn Hughes and Leah FlemingKent, 1939. Eliza is to be married to Nicholas, her companion since she was a child. But when the...

James Mitchell / Indian Summer

    The triumphant arrival of one of the richest men in England with an exquisitely beautiful woman on either arm causes a flurry of excitement. From the creator of 'When the Boat Comes In'.     All of our books are second...

Nancy Carson / Poppy's Dilemma

   A compelling tale of one girl's brave escape from a world of poverty in her search for true love.Is true love worth risking everything for?Sixteen-year-old Poppy Silk is one of the navvy community - a group of poor, rough-living men who...

Libby Purves / A Free Woman

   Sarah Penn and Maggie Reave are sisters, as different as a tabby and a tiger. Sarah has married kind, reliable Leo and settled contentedly into small-town life. Maggie, light-hearted and footloose, has spent fifteen years drifting round the...

Neel Mukherjee / The Lives of Others

 Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the Costa Novel AwardWinner of the Encore AwardShortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian LiteratureLonglisted for the IMPAC PrizeCalcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become...

Jessica Blair / The Long Way Home

    Lydia Middleton faces a bright future, secure in the knowledge that her childhood sweetheart, David Drayton, will one day be her husband. Their parents heartily approve of a match between Whitby's foremost ship-owning families. But then...

Rosie Goodwin / Mothering Sunday

   If you love Dilly Court, you'll love Sunday Times Bestseller Rosie Goodwin.ALL SHE WANTS IS SOMEONE TO CALL HER OWN1884, Nuneaton.Fourteen-year-old Sunday Small has never lived outside the Nuneaton workhouse. The regime is cruel, and if it...

Cristopher Bland / Ashes In The Wind

   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...

Anna Jacobs / Cinnamon Gardens

   Now that Nell's three sons are in work, she's ready to build a new life for herself. She's been left a house in England by an elderly aunt and decides to leave Australia for a while.But her house on Peppercorn Street isn't fit to live in...

Xavier Herbert / Capricornia

   A saga of life in the Northern Territories and the clash of white and Aborigine cultures - one of Australia's all-time best-selling novels and an inspiration for Baz Luhrmann's lavish film `AUSTRALIA'.Capricornia has been described as one...

Elizabeth Waite / Second Chance

    Barbara's first chance comes in 1945. A barrister's daughter, she runs away to marry her sailor sweetheart in secret, ignoring her parent's disapproval. When the marriage falls violently apart, she returns home and tries to rebuild her...

Nora Roberts / Chesapeake Blue

   The first ten years of Seth Quinn's life were a prison of fear and neglect - until he was rescued by the Quinns: father Ray, and hot-blooded brothers Phillip, Ethan and Cameron.Now an adult and successful artist, Seth returns home to...

Winston Graham / Bella Poldark

   Bella Poldark is the twelfth and final novel in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series, which has become a television phenomenon starring Aidan Turner.Cornwall 1818. We continue the tale of Ross and Demelza; of the wayward Valentine...

Winston Graham / Warleggan

   Warleggan is the fourth novel in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series, which has become a television phenomenon starring Aidan Turner.Cornwall 1792. Ross plunges into a highly speculative mining venture which threatens not only...

Rebecca Dean / Wallis

   Two lovers. Two very different lives.One future together that will change history.When debutante Wallis Simpson is growing up, she devotes her teenage daydreams to one man, the future King of England, Prince Edward. But it's Pamela Holtby,...

Catherine Dunne / Another Kind of Life

    Hannah, May and Eleanor are sisters whose early life in Dublin with their middle class parents, has prepared them for a comfortable future of marriage, children and servants. Further north, Mary and Cecilia are also sisters, struggling...

Margaret Dickinson / Fairfield Hall

   A compelling saga from Margaret Dickinson, Fairfield Hall charts the changing fortunes of Annabel Constantine, in the devastating lead up to the First World War.Ruthlessly ambitious Ambrose Constantine is determined that his daughter,...

Julia Stoneham / Muddy Boots and Silk Stockings

   England, 1943. The country is at war With so many men away fighting, it is the women left behind who must keep the country going, and when Alice Todd is abandoned by her husband, she must find a means to provide for herself and her...

Kay Brellend / The Family

   The follow-up novel to the hugely successful debutTHE STREETIn this dank corner of town, you have to keep your friends close and your enemies closer - even if those enemies are your family.Jimmy Wild saunters around the streets of Campbell...

Bryce Courtenay / Jessica

    'A superb storyteller ... it is impossible not to be impressed by Courtenay's talents' - The Times JESSICA is based on the real life of a remarkable young Australian woman who defied the conventions of her time. She had a stubborn...

Stefan Merrill Block / The Storm at the Door

   Just outside Boston, in 1963, Frederick Merrill found himself a patient in the country's premiere mental hospital, a world of structured authority and absolute control - a forced regression to a simpler time even as the pace of the outside...

Rosie Goodwin / The Maid's Courage

    Ginny is devastated by the death of her mother, her two little brothers and her sister - but her father is destroyed by the loss. After a series of drunken mistakes, her father is imprisoned for murder, and Ginny and her little brother...

Sally Worboyes / Keep on Dancing

    Rosie Curtis is devastated when her brother Tommy is viciously murdered after dabbling in the criminal underworld. Not only is her carefree existence suddenly over but, without Tommy's support, her dreams of becoming a dancer are...

Elvi Rhodes / Golden Girls

    She was twenty-three when her husband died, leaving her with three small daughters and nothing else. The day came when she was so hungry, so tired and worried, that she was reduced to going to Akersfield market and asking Dick Fletcher...

Nancy Carson / The Railway Girl

   Only tragedy can save her...Lucy Piddock meets Arthur Goodrich, solid, kind and dependable; a stonemason by trade working in his father's Black Country business. Arthur seems to be the ideal match, but he lights no flame in Lucy's heart...

Patricia Gaffney / Circle of Three

   A wise, emotional, but wholly unsentimental novel of three generations of women, and the changes they face when one of them is unexpectedly widowed. Through the interconnected lives of three generations of women in a small town in rural...

Mary Rose Callaghan / The Visitors' Book

    Peggy, who's Irish, and Charlie, American, have moved from New York to Dublin, in search of a more peaceful life. Charlie is having a mid-life crisis and has romantic illusions about living in the west; Peggy is more practical and fears...

Elizabeth Lord / The Flower Girl

    Since her stevedore father's death, Emma Beech has been the main bread-winner of her family, making a living selling paper flowers to the theatre crowds in the West-End. They make just enough to keep a roof over their heads, especially...

Dee Williams / Ellie of Elmleigh Square

   Ellie Walsh lives in a battlefield. Her out-of-work father, selfish sisters and violent, bitter mother, Ruby , are constantly fighting - and Ellie is always caught in the crossfire. So when a charming customer, Leonard Kent, comes into the...