Sagas

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...

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...

Dilly Court / The Beggar Maid

This is the wonderfully nostalgic, vivid and compelling new novel from the Sunday Times top five bestselling author of A Loving Family. From the age of eight, sixteen-year-old Charity Crosse has been living rough with her grandfather and begging on the...

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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Debbie Macomber / Dashing Through the Snow

The new romantic Christmas story from New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Ashley Davison is desperate to spend the holidays with her mother in Seattle. Dash Sutherland has an interview for the job of a lifetime in Seattle and must arrive...

Nora Roberts / Born in Ice

Brianna Concannon has buried a broken heart under her fair, calm exterior for ten long years. Jilted just weeks before the wedding to her childhood love, Bri turned her attention to keeping house for her family in County Clare. She's cooled her...

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,...

Claude Michelet / Scent of Herbs

The final volume in the compelling saga of village life in rural France.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...

Catherine Cookson / Kate Hannigan

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Eileen Ramsay / A Way of Forgiving

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Margaret Mayhew / Those in Peril

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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...

Sally Worboyes / Down Stepney Way

Emotions are running high in Stepney, with Blackshirts marching through the streets and the Jewish community under threat of violence. Jessie finds it alarming, particularly as her boyfriend Max is Jewish, but she is quickly learning that nothing is...

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...

Anne Baker / Love is Blind

A family struggles to survive bereavement, bombing and bitter rivalry...Patsy Rushton's brother Barney doesn't know the meaning of hard work, so when their father tragically dies, Patsy has no choice but to save the family's business...

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...

Lucinda Riley / The Girl on the Cliff

Troubled by recent loss, Grania Ryan has returned to Ireland and the arms of her loving family. And it is here, on a cliff edge, that she first meets a young girl, Aurora, who will profoundly change her life.Mysteriously drawn to Aurora, Grania discovers...

Lucinda Riley / The Light Behind The Window

The present: Emilie de la Martiniéres has always fought against her aristocratic background, but after the death of her glamorous, distant mother, she finds herself alone in the world and sole inheritor of her grand childhood home in the south of France...

Dilly Court / Ragged Rose

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Anna Jacobs / Our Lizzie

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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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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...

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...

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...

Catherine Cookson / The Menagerie

The Broadhursts were a mining family and, to outsiders, they appeared to be happy, loyal and united. But it was Jinny - wife, mother, sister - who held them together. Her pride and her strength prevented their fears and hates from overwhelming them.There...

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...

Valerio Massimo Manfredi / Alexander : The Sands of Ammon ( Book 2 )

Continuing the epic saga of Alexander the Great, Alexander: The Sands of Ammon brilliantly describes Alexander's quest to conquer Asia, the limitless domain ruled by the Great King of the Persians. In a seemingly impossible venture, Alexander and his men...

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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Josephine Cox / Whistledown Woman

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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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Lily Baxter / The Shopkeeper's Daughter

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Ruby Jackson / Churchill's Angels

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