Sagas

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...

Katie Flynn / Time to Say Goodbye

This is from the Sunday Times bestselling author Katie Flynn. Three girls, evacuated from Liverpool during World War Two, support each other through hardship and heartbreak. It's 1939, and three ten-year-old girls meet on a station platform. Imogen, Rita...

Maureen Lee / Flora and Grace

The Second World War - a mother must make a heartbreaking sacrifice in order to save her child...A poignant and powerful family saga from the author of Au Revoir Liverpool. 1944. It is spring, late morning, when Flora's life changes for ever. She is...

Geraldine O'Neill / Music from Home

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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...

June Francis / A Dream to Share

The Edwardian era is coming to an end and in Chester a young maid, Emma, strives to keep her family from poverty. Driven by a desire to avenge the death of her sister, who had committed suicide after falling pregnant and being abandoned by the father,...

Anna Jacobs / The Trader's Gift

A wonderful historical saga by bestselling author of FAREWELL TO LANCASHIRE and FREEDOM'S LAND, Anna Jacobs, following the lives of immigrants to Western Australia in the 1860s.Bram Deagan has a thriving trading business, a beautiful wife and 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...

Joan O'Neill / Turn of the Tide

Wealthy Eve is now the mother of a delightful daughter, and Pauline has brought up her son in America. The two women return to Glencove and end up running a hotel there. But Eve's happy marriage is showing its cracks, and Pauline's past...

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...

Ken McCoy / Hope Street

Hope Street may be just an ordinary terraced street in Leeds, but it's the world to Maggie Fish. And when her father returns home from the war the whole family looks forward to happier times. But then Maggie's mother dies giving birth to a little...

Bernice Morgan / Random Passage

Forced to flee England, the Andrews family books passage to a fresh start in a distant country, only to discover a barren, inhospitable land at the end of their crossing. To seventeen-year-old Lavinia, uprooted from everything familiar, it seems a fate...

Kitty Neale / Abandoned Child

Kitty Neale is back! Curl up with this heartrending new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A BROKEN FAMILY and A FATHER’S REVENGEAll she wanted was a mother’s love …DESPISEDPenny’s childhood was spent in the...

Ruth Hamilton / A Liverpool Song

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Nora Roberts / Rising Tides

Ethan Quinn shared his late father's passion for the ocean, and he is determined to make the family boat-building business a success. But he is also facing the most important challenges of his life...There is his younger brother Seth, who needs him...

Ann Widdecombe / The Clematis Tree

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Audrey Howard / The Silence of Strangers

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Joan O'Neill / A Houseful of Women

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Josephine Cox / Lonely Girl

The new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Josephine Cox gets straight to the hope and heartbreak of family drama.One fateful night changes the course of a child’s life forever…Rosie’s mother is a cruel woman and has...

Libby Purves / Home Leave

Catherine and Caroline, Toby and Mark were globetrotting siblings: British 'diplo-brats', whose childhood homes lay in Italy or Israel, France or Washington DC - wherever their father was posted at the time. But all that was years ago. Now...

Abraham Verghese / Cutting For Stone

My brother, Shiva, and I came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth of September in the year of grace 1954. We took our first breaths in the thick air of Addis Ababa, capital city of Ethiopia.Bound by birth, we were driven apart by bitter...

Ann O'Loughlin / The Ballroom Café

Sisters Ella and Roberta O'Callaghan live in separate wings of their crumbling Irish mansion. They haven't spoken for decades, torn apart by a dark family secret from their past, and only communicate through the terse and bitter notes they leave...

Josephine Cox / Alley Urchin

By 1870 Emma Grady has spent seven years of servitude as a convict in Australia. Emma lives for the day when she will return to England, to face those who cheated and betrayed her. And to Marlow Tanner, the man she loves - and whose tragic child she had...

Anne Tyler / A Spool of Blue Thread

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S FICTION PRIZEA RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK‘It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon…’This is the way Abby Whitshank...

Susan Sallis / Water Under The Bridge

Emmie Dart was nearly forty years old and servant to old Canon James when Walter asked her to marry him. He was the Canon's son, younger than she was, and a gentleman - even though a rather dilettante drifter who had really done very little with his...

Jessica Blair / The Restless Heart

Olivia Coulson is pretty and determined enough to attract any man's eye. George Chilton-Brookes, heir to the Cropton estate, is visibly enchanted by her, while handsome gentleman farmer Kit Fernley is also drawn to her looks and vivacity. Olivia...

Alan Bennett / The Uncommon Reader

The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely ( JR Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett and the classics) and...

Elizabeth Jane Howard / Confusion

London and Sussex, 1942. The English family in turmoil . . .The long, dark days of struggle provide the poignant background to the third book of the Cazalet Chronicles. As the war enters its fourth year, chaos has become a way of life.Both in the still...

Elizabeth Murphy / A Nest of Singing Birds

Annie's childhood was a happy one, growing up secure amid an extended family, despite the hard conditions, there was always food on the table. This is what she aspires to with her own children, but when her husband returns from the war, his ambitions...

Pamela Evans / A Song in your Heart

When Gill and Arnie Briscoe marry in haste in the summer of 1957, rumours fly round the close knit community of Maisie Road, Fulham. But the couple are too in love to care what other people think and when their son is born their happiness seems complete...

Rosie Goodwin / A Mother's Shame

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Danielle Steel / The Sins of the Mother

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Barbara Taylor Bradford / Cavendon Hall

A sweeping saga set around the aristocratic Ingham family of Cavendon Hall and the Swanns who serve them, set on the eve of World War 1.Two entwined families: the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve themOne stately home: Cavendon Hall, a grand...

Margaret Kaine / A Girl of Her Time

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Susan Knight / Grimaldi's Garden

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Carys Bray / A Song for Issy Bradley

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Anne Bennett / A Girl Can Dream

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Hilary Green / They Also Serve

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Dorothea Benton Frank / Isle of Palms

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Anne Bennett / If You Were the Only Girl

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Ruby Jackson / Churchill's Angels

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Elizabeth Jane Howard / Marking Time

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Santa Montefiore / The Forget-Me-Not Sonata

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Elizabeth Gill / Miss Appleby's Academy

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Maureen Lee / The Seven Streets of Liverpool

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Pam Jenoff / The Officers Lover

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Virginia Andrews / Twisted Roots

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Anne Baker / Daughters Of The Mersey

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Gilda O'Neill / The Bells of Bow

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