Sagas

Patricia Harman / The Midwife of Hope River

 As a midwife working in rural poverty during the Depression, Patience Murphy's only solace is her gift: the chance to escort mothers through the challenges of childbirth. Just beginning, she takes on the jobs no one else wants: those most in...

Josephine Cox / A Family Secret

 The new No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the master storyteller, Josephine Cox.Family secrets can weigh the heaviest...Although she's surrounded by a loving family, Marie is lonely. The secret she has been carrying for many years is a burden -...

Annie Groves / My Sweet Valentine

 An emotional portrayal of the lives of four women as Valentine's day approaches, in 1941 wartime London`Life brought enough problems and upsets for young hearts, especially young female hearts, without them having to carry the added burden of the...

Rita Bradshaw / Dancing in the Moonlight

 Heartbreak and family loyalty collide in Rita Bradshaw's number one bestselling Dancing in the Moonlight.As her mother lies dying, twelve-year-old Lucy Fallow promises to look after her younger siblings and keep house for her father and two older...

Iris Gower / Act Of Love

 When Ella Burton takes a job as a lowly cleaner at the glamorous Palace theatre in Swansea, she is surprised by how quickly she takes to the job - it's as if she was born for a life in the theatre. Unlike Kathleen, who wants her name in lights,...

Iris Gower / The Oyster Catchers

 Emmeline Powell had been born a country girl, in a small, whitewashed cottage on Honey's Farm. When her father died, Emmeline, bereft and lonely, married Joe Harries, a man much older than herself and one of the fishermen of Oystermouth. The wives...

Geraldine O'Neill / Aisling Gayle

      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...

Catherine Cookson / Heritage of Folly

      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...

June Francis / A Sister's Duty

  She will do what it takes, for the sake of the children... Rosie Kilshaw is only fifteen when her mother Violet is killed in a tragic accident, but as the oldest of her siblings, she vows to keep her family together, no matter what the sacrifice...

Lilian Harry / A Song at Twilight

 A powerful novel from bestselling author Lilian Harry, set in and around a Devon airfield during the Second World War.It is 1943, and the quiet of Harrowbeer, in Devon, is disrupted by increased activity at the nearly airfield built at the...

Elvi Rhodes / The Birthday Party

 Poppy's family is gathering to celebrate her eightieth birthday. Her children, grandchildren and even one great-grandchild are converging on her Sussex home. As she prepares to welcome them all, her mind goes back over her life - to her tough...

Anna Jacobs / Elm Tree Road

 After being driven from home by their brutal father, the Willitt sisters, Mattie, Nell and Renie, find themselves facing greater heartache in the wider world. Nell has left home to be with her lover, Cliff, fearing what reprisals might come from...

Elvi Rhodes / Opal

 Edgar Carson has returned from the trenches to find that the land fit for heroes didn't exist. The only nice thing that happened to him was Opal, the small, tough, Yorkshire beauty who married him. But by the time the 20s came, Edgar was on the...

Sarah Addison Allen / The Peach Keeper

 Welcome to Walls of Water, North Carolina, a place where secrets run thicker than the town's famous fog. Once upon a time, Willa Jackson's family owned the beautiful house on the top of the ridge. Now it symbolises her family's ruin and a...

Valerie Wood / Emily

 Betrayed, imprisoned, tried and transported to Australia, Emily's life seems finished until she is reunited with the one man who can save her from her misery and bring her wealth and happiness.      All of our books are second hand,...

Anna Godbersen / Beautiful Days

 The fabulous sequel to Bright Young Things. Scandal, intrigue, and romance follow three beautiful young women, Letty, Cordelia and Astrid, as they each try to find love and fortune in glamorous Jazz Age New York.      All of our...

Lesley Pearse / Dead to Me

 **'Yet another great Lesley Pearse novel' Woman Magazine****'Full of love, passion and heartbreak' Best**Two very different women, one unlikely friendship. In the chaos of war-torn Britain, can any relationship survive? Dead to Me is a story...

Philip Casey / The Fisher Child

 Dan and Kate first met as children. Now they are married, in love, parents to a boy and girl, and expecting another child. But when Meg is born, trust is replaced by suspicion and anger, and Dan retreats to Ireland, seeking to understand what has...

Lilian Roberts Finlay / Cassa's Choice

 The beautiful Cassa Blake, a dutiful daughter who gave up her youth to care for aging parents, was left the substantial family property, but not the money for its upkeep. Fear of her grasping, disinherited sister, who is determined to appropriate...

Kitty Neale / A Mother's Sacrifice

 The most heartbreaking decision a mother could make...the Sunday Times bestseller is back with an emotional story that will tug on the heartstrings.BEATENGlenda Jenkins has been beaten by her husband Harry one too many times - and this time he's...

Larissa Ione / Sin Undone

 Her touch is deadly. His hunger can't be denied. As the only female Seminus demon ever born, master assassin Sinead Donnelly is used to being treated like an outcast. She spent decades enslaved and now vows she'll die before she'll relinquish...

Bernice Morgan / Waiting for Time

      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...

Rebecca Stowe / Shadow of Desire

   Ginger is 38, divorced, and a biographer of obscure "dead" women writers. Returning home for Christmas, Ginger re-encounters the tragi-comedy of her family - an alcoholic mother, layabout brother and passive father - a unit disintegrated by...

Monica McInerney / The Trip of a Lifetime

      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...

Helen Carey / Some Sunny Day

 Set in South London at the time of the blitz this warm and touching saga centres on the families that live there.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books...

Rose Doyle / Alva

   By the author of Kimbay. In financial trouble, Alva accepts an offer for her hotel to be used as a film set for a month, and with a new set of characters in her life - Jack the producer, director Luke and his leading lady Clara - Alva must...

Anna Jacobs / Heir to Greyladies

   Hampshire, 1900. With the sudden death of her father, the life of fifteen-year-old Harriet Benson changes forever. Forced from her home to escape the advances of her leering stepbrother Norris, Harriet is sent into service to provide for the...

Billy Hopkins / Anything Goes

 It's December 1963 when Billy Hopkins and his wife Laura arrive home in Manchester after five years in Africa. The world they left behind has changed beyond recognition: now, it's the swinging sixties, with headlines full of the Beatles and the...

Elvi Rhodes / Summer Promise And Other Stories

 This is a collection of stories to suit the reader's every mood - tender, funny, romantic, ironic, bitter-sweet, nostalgic. The couple in Summer Promise are, at first glance, placed in an appalling situation, but nevertheless in the warmth of...

Rosie Goodwin / A Rose Among Thorns

   From the well-loved author comes an epic historical saga - a captivating tale of the power of love, friendship...and betrayal.Despite losing her mother at a young age, Sassy has grown up surrounded by love: although poor, she is happy. So...

Pamela Evans / Lamplight on the Thames

 The fog swirled around the crowd at the graveside; Bob Brown had been a popular man. But Bella's thoughts were dark - Frank Bennett had killed her father as surely as if he had taken a knife to him. Since the end of the war, when Bob had taken over...

Bernard Cornwell / Sword Song (Last Kingdom Series - Book 4 )

   The fourth novel in Bernard Cornwell's epic and bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg.BBC2's major Autumn 2015 TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series...

Dilly Court / The Orphan's Dream

 The heartwarming and nostalgic new novel from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of The Beggar Maid.Motherless since she was five, Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly, Mirabel finds herself cast...

Catherine Cookson / The Dwelling Place

      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...

Winston Graham / Jeremy Poldark

Cornwall 1790. Ross Poldark faces the darkest hour of his life. Accused of wrecking two ships, he is to stand trial at the Bodmin Assizes. Despite their stormy married life, Demelza has tried to rally support for her husband. But there are enemies in...

Anne Murray / Kate and Olivia

By the author of "Birmingham Rose". Anna grew up with stories of her mother's childhood in Birmingham and of Kate's friend, Olivia. But when Kate died, she left her daughter a final story, which told the whole truth of her life with Olivia. Then Anna...

Clare Boylan / Beloved Stranger

Dick and Lily have been married for fifty years, and Lily finally believes that marriage is like an old tune you take for granted but find yourself whistling when you're happy. Until the night she wakes to find her husband's pyjama'd bottom poking out...

Annie Groves / Only a Mother Knows

A compelling novel about four young women in wartime London, from the best-selling author of London Belles and My Sweet Valentine. In Article Row, in London's Holborn - four young women, Tilly, Sally, Dulcie and Agnes - have already been witnesses to the...

Julian Fellowes / Belgravia

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche,...

Nancy Carson / The Factory Girl

Henzey is no ordinary factory girlHenzey Kite can't believe it when Billy Watts walks into her life. A cut above the local boys - strong, charming and wildly ambitious - he won't settle for anything less than the wealth of high society.But with wealth...

Anna King / Luck be a Lady

When 14-year-old Rebecca's parents die of smallpox she and her brother and sister must leave their smart home in Kent for the more poverty-stricken conditions in London's East End. After initial trauma, they adapt to poorer living conditions and grow to...

Catrin Collier / Swansea Girls

It is Saturday night and the Pier Ballroom in Swansea is the place to be: For Lily, an evacuee unclaimed by her family at the end of the war; for Judy, taught independence by her war widow mother; for Katie, the product of a marriage between a drunken,...

June Francis / Another Man's Child

It's 1909 and Molly May, her husband lost at sea and presumed dead, has escaped from her cruel in-laws in Liverpool along the Leeds-Liverpool canal to Burscough Bridge. Here she gives birth to a baby girl. Handsome widower Nathan Collins employs her as a...

Vanessa Diffenbaugh / The Language of Flowers

The Victorian language of flowers was used to express emotions: honeysuckle for devotion, azaleas for passion, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it has been more useful in communicating feelings like grief, mistrust and solitude. After a...

Geraldine O'Neill / Music from Home

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 price sticker on a...

Anna Quindlen / Every Last One

The Lathams seem to have it all: health, wealth and a vibrant family life. As Mary Beth Latham contemplates a life built around home, friends and community, she has every reason to feel fulfilled and content. Then, for one of her sons, a process of...

Catherine Cookson / Kate Hannigan

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 price sticker on a...

Jenny Oldfield / All Fall Down

This book features the residents of Paradise Court coping once more in the Blitz. The Duke of Wellington remains open amidst the bombings and Tommy struggles to hide a forbidden love. Sadie and Walter try to adjust as they send their sons away on the...

Elizabeth Jeffrey / To Be A Fine Lady

Abandoned as a baby, Joanna was brought up by the cruel farmer who found her and put to work on his land as soon as she could walk. Despite such hardship, Jo still keeps her spirits up, strengthened by the knowledge that she was discovered in a luxurious...

Liz Ryan / A Note of Parting

When Aran Campion leaves her sleepy Irish fishing village for faraway London, she wants both to escape and to grow. Soon her job, her music, her Saturday market stall make her life too full for the love and marriage that once seemed to be her destiny...

Rebecca Wells / Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood

When Siddalee Walker is interviewed about her hit play, her mother is described as a "tap dancing child abuser". Her mother disowns her, but the Ya-Yas - a circle of small-town Louisiana friends - send Siddalee the scrapbook of "Divine...

June Francis / The Pawnbroker's Niece

When Eve Taylor sets off for a new life in Cardiff leaving her teenage daughter behind her in Liverpool, Rita Taylor has little choice but go and live with the aunt she never knew she had. Grudgingly Margaret Sinclair, the local pawnbroker, agrees to...