Sagas

Rosie Goodwin / The Little Angel

 Perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Katie Flynn.'An absorbing story in the grand tradition of the best saga authors' Margaret Dickinson'Rosie writes such heart-warming sagas' Lyn Andrews'The new Catherine Cookson' Coventry Evening Telegraph1896,...

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...

Catherine Cookson / Heritage of Folly

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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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

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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...

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...

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...

Emma Hannigan / The Summer Guest

 Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy, a lovely, warm, Irish family saga of three generations of women coming together one magical summer in the small seaside town of Caracove Bay. A little magic is about to come to sleepy Caracove Bay...Lexie and...

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

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Donna Douglas / The Nightingale Sisters

To the student nurses at The Nightingale hospital, the ward sisters are heartless and frightening, with impossibly high standards. But the sisters have troubles of their own... Violet The new night sister is not all that she seems. Who is she and what...

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...

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...

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...

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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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...

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...

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...