Sagas

Barbara Taylor Bradford / Master of His Fate (Large Paperback)

   From Victorian London to the vibrant port cities of England and France, from gracious stately homes in Gloucestershire to the decadence of Paris, Master of his Fate launches an unforgettable new historical series.London 1884: Queen Victoria...

Anna Jacobs / Seasons of Love

   What will it take to find real happiness? Despite being the daughter of a clergyman with a strict and joyless attitude to life, Helen Merling has a loving heart and a happy nature. However, when she is seduced by a travelling actor, a...

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...

Iain Pears / The Dream Of Scipio

   Dark, erudite and like An Instance of the Fingerpost, utterly compelling, The Dream of Scipio confirms Iain Pears as one of Britain's most imaginative novelistsSet in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilisation -...

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...

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...

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...

Grace Thompson / The House by the Brook

   Badgers Brook: more than a home, a way of life. A timeless, emotional journey from a beloved writer, perfect for fans of Anna Jacobs and Freda Lightfoot.Marie Masters has been happily married for nine years, but she can't help but feel her...

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...

Donna Douglas / A Nightingale Christmas Carol

   All that Dora Riley wants is her husband home safe for Christmas...The Nightingale Hospital, London, 1944: With her husband Nick away fighting, Dora struggles to keep the home fires burning and is put in charge of a ward full of German...

Gloria Cook / Moments of Time

   After The Great War, will life ever be the same?The Great War is over, and the Harvey family of Ford Farm are slowly picking up the pieces. But Alec and Emilia's newly-wedded bliss is shattered when their third child is born with a...

Liz Trenow / The Poppy Factory

   A captivating story of two young women, bound together by the tragedy of two very different wars. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Maureen Lee.With the end of the First World War, Rose is looking forward to welcoming home her beloved...

Mary Wood / Time Passes Time

   It is 1941, and the world is at war. Young Theresa Compton is left devastated after giving up her illegitimate child and joins the Special Operations Executive, an organisation of undercover agents working behind enemy lines. Her mission is...

Kitty Danton / Evie's Allies

   The second in a trilogy of World War Two sagas featuring Evie, a new teacher in a Devon primary school, and a supporting cast of characters destined to become as familiar as old friends.After having her heart broken not once but twice, Evie...

Sophie Nicholls / The Dress

   'This book is a wonderful read and I would definitely recommend it . . . I can't wait for the sequels' - Loubee Lou BlogsMeet Ella and her mother Fabia Moreno who arrive in York, one cold January day, to set up their vintage dress shop.The...

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...

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 / Inner Harbour

   A dangerous secret is coming to shore . . .Philip Quinn has done everything to make his life perfect. With his career on the fast track and a condo overlooking the Inner Harbour, his life on the streets is firmly in the past. But one look...

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...

Rebecca Dean / Palace Circle

   `Palace Circle is a gem, filled with dashing lords, gutsy ladies, family secrets and royal intrigue.' Barbara DelinskyAmerican Heiress Delia Chandler leaves Virginia to marry Viscount Ivor Conisborough, completely unprepared for her new...

Maria Duenas / A Vineyard in Andalusia

    A sweeping historical epic by an author whose novels have sold over 6 million copies worldwide. A ruined merchant sets sail to seek his fortune in the 19th century Spanish Empire. Haunted by his lost wealth, he gambles the last of his...

Anna Quindlen / Miller's Valley

 `Miller's Valley reads like a companion to Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge' Elisabeth Egan, author of A Window OpensMimi Miller's family have lived in Miller's Valley for generations and at times it feels like nothing ever changes - until now...

Robert James Waller / A Thousand Country Roads

 Sixteen years after Robert Kincaid and Francesca Johnson have agreed that their swift, passionate and deep love affair must end, they are still thinking of each other. Robert has never married, but continued his nomadic life as a photographer. He...

Nadine Dorries / The Children Of Lovely Lane

   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...

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...

Pat Conroy / South of Broad

   Leopold Bloom King is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, a former nun, is the high school principal and a respected Joyce scholar. He has had an unremarkable, happy family life.But...

Nadine Dorries / The Four Streets

   The first book in a heartbreaking trilogy set in post-war Liverpool by bestselling author Nadine Dorries. 1950s Liverpool. In the tight-knit Irish Catholic community of the Four Streets, two girls are growing up.One is motherless - and...

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...

Sarah Harrison / The Wildflower Path

   A powerful and moving tale of family, love and loyalty from the author of the million-copy bestseller THE FLOWERS OF THE FIELD and A FLOWER THAT'S FREE.'A secret from the past casts its shadow across all four generations of the family. This...

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...

Maureen Lee / Stepping Stones

   From 1930s Liverpool to London, then California and finally back to Liverpool, the powerful and compelling saga of one woman's turbulent life. Kitty O'Brien's husband is a drunken thug, and in order to feed her starving children, she...

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...

Rita Bradshaw / A Winter Love Song

   A Winter Love Song is a heartwarming and moving story of survival and love from bestselling author Rita Bradshaw. Bonnie Lindsay is born into a travelling fair community in the north-east in 1918, and when her mother dies just months...

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...

Mira Stout / One Thousand Chestnut Trees

   An epic tale of an enigmatic land - Korea - and one woman's search for her past.Uncle Hong-do arrives in Vermont from Korea to see the sister he has never met, a concert violinist long settled in America. His colourful visit turns his...

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...