Sagas

Anna Jacobs / An Independent Woman

      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 / The Twisted Sword

   The Twisted Sword is the eleventh novel in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series, which has become a television phenomenon starring Aidan Turner. Cornwall 1815. Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses...

Jessica Blair / In The Silence Of The Snow

 French-born Marie Gabin forms a friendship with Veronica Attwood in their final two years at school, but this is tested when Marie is forced to disclose a secret to her friend. In the shadow of this revelation, the girls grow up on a country estate...

Tracy Chevalier / At the Edge of the Orchard

   'A wonderful book; rich, evocative, original. I loved it' Joanne Harris"One in ten trees comes up sweet..."In the inhospitable Black Swamp of Ohio, the Goodenough family are barely scratching out a living. Life there is harsh, tempered only...

Nadine Dorries / Ruby Flynn

 County Mayo, Ireland, 1947. In the worst winter in living memory, Ruby Flynn is rescued from the tiny cottage on the Atlantic coast where her family has perished. She is one of the storm orphans, taken in by nuns to be educated for a life in...

Jonathan Coe / The Rain Before it Falls

   The Rain Before it Falls - Jonathan Coe's heartbreaking novel of family secretsDeeply moving and compelling, The Rain Before it Falls is the story of three generations of one family riven by tragedy. When Rosamund, a reluctant bearer of...

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...

Annie Groves / Winter on the Mersey

   The dramatic story of a young woman's war - full of heartache and triumph from the bestselling author of Christmas on the Mersey and London Belles Kitty has seen her fair share of tragedy and instead of thinking about romance, is determined...

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 -...

Marita Conlon McKenna / Rebel Sisters

 THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER, SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 IRISH BOOK AWARDSWith the threat of the First World War looming, tension simmers under the surface of Ireland. Bright, beautiful and intelligent, the Gifford sisters Grace, Muriel and Nellie...

Sheila Newberry / The Winter Baby

   All alone at Christmas - will she find somewhere to call home . . ?A warm-hearted and nostalgic festive family saga from the bestselling author of THE GINGERBREAD GIRL. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Sheila Jeffries.As Christmas...

Adriana Trigiani / All the Stars in the Heavens

 Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Spencer Tracy, David Niven, Carole Lombard lead a magnificent cast of characters, real and imagined, in Adriana Trigiani's new novel set in the rich landscape of 1930s' Los Angeles. In this spectacular saga as radiant,...

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

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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...

Rosie Archer / The Factory Girls

 For fans of Daisy Styles, a heart-warming wartime saga about a group of women who work in an armaments factory. No matter how hard the times, despite bombing, short rations, cruel men, unwanted pregnancy, through thick and thin friendship will pull...

Barbara Keating / Blood Sisters

 During their childhood years in the Kenya Highlands of the 1950s, three girls from vastly different backgrounds become blood sisters, promising that nothing will ever destroy the bond between them. But as they grow up love rivalries, broken...

Catherine King / Her Mother's Secret

 DesireLettie Hargreaves wants more than her simple, uncomplicated life with her grandmother can provide. She longs for excitement and love and she's determined to make something of herself. DeceitThere is something about Lettie's mother that...

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...

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...

Kitty Danton / Evie's War

 The first in a trilogy of World War Two sagas featuring Evie, a new teacher in a Devon primary school, and introducing a supporting cast of characters destined to become as familiar as old friends. After discovering that her fiance, Timmy, 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...

Ann Brashares / The Here and Now

 Seventeen-year-old Prenna James emigrated to New York when she was twelve. But Prenna didn't come from a different country, she came from a different time - a future where a mosquito-borne illness has mutated into a pandemic, killing millions and...

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...

Kitty Neale / Sins of the Father

  Emma Chambers has an way out of the poverty-stricken life she lives – but it might just destroy her to take it… The gritty new tale from the bestselling author of NOBODY’S GIRL. DESPERATE… Left to raise eight siblings...

Josephine Cox / Let Loose the Tigers

 Queenie Bedford fled her native Blackburn and the bitter knowledge that she and Rick Marsden, the man she loved, could never marry. But in 1965 she returned north again to stand by her friend Sheila Thorogood, imprisoned for running a brothel with...

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...

Anna Jacobs / Mistress of Greyladies

   During WWI, Greyladies - an ancient manor house in rural Wiltshire - is requisitioned for a hospital. Its mistress, Harriet, Joseph and their sons are allowed to stay in the rear part of the house, but when tragedy strikes Joseph's brothers,...

Virginia Andrews / Hidden Jewel

 The fourth in the Landry series. Raised in a New Orleans mansion full of kindness and laughter, Ruby Landry's daughter Pearl dreams of becoming a doctor. The finest families gather at her graduation party, but still, she fears she will never know...

Tamara McKinley / Dreamscapes

   Catriona Summers' debut in show business came early. Her father, the leader of a travelling music hall troupe that toured the small towns of the Outback, carried her on stage when she was barely minutes old in order to introduce her to her...

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...

Mary Larkin / Shades of Deceit

   When her mother leaves the family home in Belfast for her lover, Louise McGuigan is left feeling betrayed. It is up to Louise to look after her brother and sister while her father loses himself to alcohol. Returning to work at the local...

Anne Baker / The Best of Fathers

   Childhood sweethearts Mary and Jonty have battled against the odds to be together. Forced to run away from home because Mary's father disapproved of their relationship, they've built a happy new life for themselves. Now they long to be...

Rosie Goodwin / Dilly's Lass

   Years ago Dilly made the devastating decision to give her baby daughter to wealthy local family, the Farthings. She is still living with the consequences of her choice when the daughter she gave away all those years ago turns up on Dilly's...

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...

Gill Paul / The Affair

LOVE. GLAMOUR. SECRETS.A stunning historical love story from the bestselling author of The Secret Wife. Rome, 1961. As the cameras roll on Cleopatra, the world is transfixed by the love affair emerging between Hollywood's biggest stars: Richard Burton...