Family saga / generational saga fiction
HarperCollins Publishers Wave Me Goodbye Churchills Angels 2
Book SynopsisA compelling story of tragedy and triumph in WWII -the second in a series of books featuring four young women whose lives will be forever changed by the war. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Annie Groves.Trade ReviewAmazing five star reviews from Amazon: Petra "book addict!!!"Churchill's Angels by Ruby Jackson for me was a wonderful read and therefore would recommend this marvellous book to anyone who loves a not only a good read but one which will keep your attention until you reach the last page.M. E. NewellChurchill's Angels by Ruby Jackson is a great book! Ms. Jackson gives the reader great characters and an excellent story line. Any fan of wartime books will truly enjoy this book!S Knight "Bookworm"I loved this book – cannot wait for the next one in the series. I really felt that I was there living with the characters. The historical detail is brilliant.J. Harper "Jenny Harper"Love, new challenges, death and humour battle on every page, ensuring that our attention is held from beginning to end. Can't wait for the next in the series!
£12.34
HarperCollins Publishers The Poppy Factory
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£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Christmas on the Mersey
Book SynopsisAn emotional and compelling wartime drama from the author of Only a Mother Knows and A Christmas Promise. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn.Trade ReviewPraise for Annie Groves: ‘Heartwrenching and uplifting in equal measure – a tragic indictment of what can happen when you swap passion for duty. Roll on the sequel!’ Take a Break ‘A stirring and heartrending family saga…Against a backdrop of change when the suffragette movement was coming to the fore, the choices and dreams of a generation of women combine to create this passionate story’ Liverpool Daily Post ‘Written from the heart’ My Weekly ‘An engrossing story’ My Weekly
£12.34
HarperCollins Publishers Winter on the Mersey A Heartwarming Christmas Saga
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£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers The Dressmakers Daughter
Book SynopsisRomantic dreams, snatched by warLizzie Bishop's humble beginnings as a dressmaker's daughter see her hope for nothing more than a simple offer of marriage. Love, passion and romance are reserved for daydreams.But then into Lizzie's quiet world comes two men one reliable and kind-hearted, the other heartbreakingly handsome. Just as Lizzie's made her choice, the ominous call of war sounds, and her life changes again.Will Lizzie get her chance at happiness, or has it gone forever?Trade Review.
£14.24
HarperCollins Publishers THE RAILWAY GIRL
Book SynopsisOnly tragedy can save her…Trade ReviewAmazon Reader Reviews: ‘A charming and evocative saga’‘Nancy Carson is a new author to me and I look forward to reading more of her books’‘Every page is a page turner, so you may find it difficult to put down!’‘A fascinating story and a delightful heroine’‘A heart-warming tale’‘Couldn't put it down’‘I would recommend anyone to read this book’
£14.24
HarperCollins Publishers Daisys Betrayal
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£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Land Girls 3 CHRISTMAS ON THE HOME FRONT A heartwarming and gripping second world war novel Book 3
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£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Snow on the Cobbles Book 3 Coronation Street
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£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Evacuee Summer HeartWarming Historical Fiction Perfect for Summer Reading
Book SynopsisFar from home, an adventure they’ll never forget… ‘A heart-warming read’ My Weekly ‘A delightful, nostalgic read’ Woman Trade Review Praise for The Evacuee Summer: ‘A heart-warming read’ My Weekly ‘A delightful, nostalgic read’ Woman 'This delightful read captures a sense of nostalgia and weaves together the dramas of a cast of heart-warming characters’ Woman Praise for The Evacuee Christmas: ‘A heart-warming tale of friendship and family’ Woman
£10.44
HarperCollins Publishers THE BELFAST GIRL ON GALWAY BAY An uplifting new Irish saga for fans of Dilly Court and Katie Flynn
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£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Last Summer in Ireland
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£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers The Lost Twin
A gripping and emotional story about family, secrets, and never giving up hope. Perfect for fans of Ali Mercer, Kelly Rimmer and S. D. Robertson.When a child is lost, can the heart ever recover?Marie Tully is eighteen when she gives birth to twins at a home for unmarried mothers. Penniless and alone, Marie is forced to make an impossible choice. One she will regret for the rest of her life.Against the odds, Marie raises her son Barry and gives him a good life. Yet she can never bring herself to tell him that somewhere out there, he has a twin brother.But secrets can't stay buried forever. And when Barry learns the truth, it threatens to tear mother and son apart all over again.Will the family ever be reunited? And can the scars of a lifetime ever truly heal?What readers are saying about The Lost TwinI was hooked from the first page'This is the first novel I have read by this author but I hope it will not be the last!'Wonderfully written, the characters are real and completely engaging,
£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Second Chance at the Belfast Guesthouse
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£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers The Countess of the Revolution
Book SynopsisEverything I love about historical fiction and more.' Reader review ?????March, 1917Petrograd is on the eve of revolution. For Countess Sophia Orlova, the city of her childhood the only home she has ever known has become her deadly enemy. The mob are ready to get rid of anyone connected to the old regime, including Sophia.When rebels threaten to shoot Sophia and her husband, they are saved by Nikolai, a fervent supporter of the revolution. Determined to help Nikolai's cause, Sophia sets up a hospital wing in the house, nursing injured victims by his side.Her kindness has captured Nikolai's heart, but their burgeoning romance is forbidden. With battle lines drawn between the new and the old, both their lives are in dangerWill their love be strong enough to overcome the horrors of war?From the bestselling author of Sisters of War comes a heart-wrenching novel of lovers trapped on the opposite sides of a terrifying political conflict, loss, and sacrifice.Readers LOVE The Countess of the
£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Quicksilver
Book SynopsisQuicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of Half-Cocked Jack Shaftoe -- London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox.And it is the tale of Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent Europe through the newborn power of finance.A gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive novel that brings a remarkable age and its momentous events to vivid life, Quicksilver is an extraordinary achievement from one of the most o
£19.79
HarperCollins The Thorn Birds
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Ginger Tree
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Shoemakers Wife
Book SynopsisTrigiani’s biggest novel to date--a breathtaking multi-generational love story that spans two continents, two World Wars, and two oceans, replete with the all the drama, sumptuous detail and heart-stopping romance that have made her “One of the reigning queen’s of women’s fiction” (USA Today).Beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani returns with the most epic and ambitious novel of her career—a breathtaking multigenerational love story that spans two continents, two World Wars, and the quest of two star-crossed lovers to find each other again. Fans of Trigiani’s sweeping family dramas like Big Stone Gap and Lucia, Lucia will love her latest masterpiece, a book Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help, calls “totally new and completely wonderful: a rich, sweeping epic which tells the story of the women and men who built America dream by dream.”
£15.29
HarperCollins Circles of Time
Book SynopsisBefore Downton Abbey, there was Abingdon Pryory.... He drove up to Flanders in the early summer of 1921 knowing that it would be for the last time. He had finally, after nearly four years, reconciled himself to the unalterable fact that she was dead.Trade Review"Rock never slips his moorings to the story line; and it's all immensely energetic, top entertainment in the Upstairs/Downstairs vein, complete with bubbling family gossip." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
£9.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Goodnight from London
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£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Irish Girl The
Book SynopsisThe Irish Girl was previously published as The Girl in the Castle.Ireland. The early twentieth century.Two girls on the cusp of womanhood. A nation on the brink of war.Read their story — and see why JOJO MOYES says that Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore. Born on the ninth day of the ninth month in the year 1900, Kitty Deverill grows up in Castle Deverill, on the sunning green ghills of West Cork, Ireland — the same place her ancestors have always dwelled. She isn''t fully Irish, as the son of the local veterinarian likes to tease her; but this doesn''t stop Kitty and Jack O''Leary from falling in love...Bridie Doyle, daughter to Castle Deverill''s cook, cherishes her friendship with Kitty. Yet she can’t help dreaming of someday having wealth, having glamour, having... more. And when she discovers Kitty''s
£16.19
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Golden Wolf
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£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Unsheltered
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£17.09
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Actual Star
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£999.99
Penguin Putnam Inc The Joy Luck Club
Book Synopsis“The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich AsiansPart of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperbackWinner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin’s iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the
£15.30
Tellwell Talent Class of 56
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£19.90
Random House USA Inc The Lowland Vintage Contemporaries
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Namesake comes an extraordinary novel, set in India and America, that tells the story of two brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past, a country torn by revolution, and a love that lasts long past death.Born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other in the Calcutta neighborhood where they grow up. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead. It is the 1960s, and Udayan—charismatic and impulsive—finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty; he will give everything, risk all, for what he believes. Subhash, the dutiful son, does not share his brother’s political passion; he leaves home to pursu
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Random House USA Inc The Sandcastle Girls
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£15.26
Random House USA Inc Palace Walk
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£15.03
St Martin's Press Flesh and Blood A Novel
£15.19
Little Brown and Company Circe
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£25.50
Orbit Jade City
£17.99
Random House USA Inc The Fortunate Pilgrim
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£8.99
Random House USA Inc The Godfather Returns
Book SynopsisTHE MISSING YEARS FROM THE GREATEST CRIME SAGA OF ALL TIMEThirty-five years ago, Mario Puzo’s great American tale, The Godfather, was published, and popular culture was indelibly changed. Now, in The Godfather Returns, acclaimed novelist Mark Winegardner continues the story-the years not covered in Puzo’s bestselling book or in Francis Ford Coppola’s classic films. It is 1955. Michael Corleone has won a bloody victory in the war among New York’s crime families. Now he wants to consolidate his power, save his marriage, and take his family into legitimate businesses. To do so, he must confront his most dangerous adversary yet, Nick Geraci, a former boxer who worked his way through law school as a Corleone street enforcer, and who is every bit as deadly and cunning as Michael. Their personal cold war will run from 1955 to 1962, exerting immense influence on the lives of America’s most powerful criminals and their loved ones, incl
£8.54
Random House USA Inc Starting Now
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Random House USA Inc Blossom Street Brides
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£8.54
Random House USA Inc Angels at the Table
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£9.49
Random House USA Inc A Perfect Life
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£9.49
Random House USA Inc Country
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£7.59
Random House USA Inc Leaving Time with bonus novella Larger Than Life
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£16.20
Random House USA Inc A Spark of Light
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£15.30
MCD X Fsg Originals Beowulf A New Translation
Book SynopsisNamed one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by The GuardianLonglisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry. Picked for Kirkus Reviews' Best Fiction in Translation of 2020. Named a Book of the Year by NPR, Vox, and The New Statesman. Picked for Loyalty Books' Holiday List. A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere WifeBrash and belligerent, lunatic and invigorating, with passages of sublime poetry punctuated by obscenities and social-media shorthand. Ruth Franklin, The New YorkerThe author of the crazy-cool Beowulf-inspired novel The Mere Wife tackles the Old English epic poem with a fierce new feminist translation that radically recontextualizes the tale. Barbara VanDenburgh, USA TodayNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulfand fifty years after the tran
£14.45
Random House USA Inc A Fraction of the Whole
Book SynopsisMeet the Deans“The fact is, the whole of Australia despises my father more than any other man, just as they adore my uncle more than any other man. I might as well set the story straight about both of them . . .”Heroes or Criminals?Crackpots or Visionaries?Families or Enemies?“. . . Anyway, you know how it is. Every family has a story like this one.”Most of his life, Jasper Dean couldn’t decide whether to pity, hate, love, or murder his certifiably paranoid father, Martin, a man who overanalyzed anything and everything and imparted his self-garnered wisdom to his only son. But now that Martin is dead, Jasper can fully reflect on the crackpot who raised him in intellectual captivity, and what he realizes is that, for all its lunacy, theirs was a grand adventure.As he recollects the events that led to his father’s demise, Jasper recounts a boyhood of outrageous schemes and shocking discoveries&
£17.55
Random House USA Inc Merry and Bright
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£9.49
Random House USA Inc Cottage by the Sea
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A seaside town helps one young woman reclaim the light after darkness in an uplifting novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.“Romantic, warm, and a breeze to read—one of Macomber’s best.”—Kirkus Reviews Annie Marlow has been through the worst. Rocked by tragedy, she heads to the one place that makes her happy: Oceanside in the Pacific Northwest, the destination of many family vacations when Annie was a teenager. Once there, Annie begins to restore her broken spirit, thanks in part to the folks she meets: a local painter, Keaton, whose large frame is equal to his big heart—and who helps Annie fix up her rental cottage by the sea; Mellie, the reclusive, prickly landlord Annie is determined to befriend; and Britt, a teenager with a terrible secret. But it is Keaton to whom Annie feels most drawn. Hi
£9.35
Random House USA Inc Window on the Bay
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Random House USA Inc Rushing Waters
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Danielle Steel fearlessly tackles a catastrophe and its aftermath with characters who are joined together by accident, then share their vulnerabilities, regrets, losses, and hopes. Hurricane Ophelia is bearing down on New York City. And in a matter of hours, six people, along with their families, friends, and millions of other New Yorkers living around them, will be caught up in the horrific flooding it unleashes. Ellen Wharton has flown into New York from London, regardless of the weather and her husband’s worry. The successful interior designer is intent on seeing her lively architect mother and has an important personal appointment to keep. But despite Ellen’s urging, when the storm hits, seventy-four-year-old Grace Madison refuses to leave her Tribeca apartment in the midst of the evacuation zone, and they must eventually wade through chest-high water to the police boats outside. British investment banker Charles Williams is traveling on business but is also eager to see his young daughters, who live with his beautiful, estranged ex-wife in SoHo. Desperate to find them, he checks the shelters where thousands have taken refuge and runs into Ellen and her mother. Juliette Dubois, a dedicated ER doctor, fights to save lives when the generators at her hospital fail. NYU students Peter Holbrook and Ben Weiss, living in a shabby downtown walkup, are excited by the adventure of the approaching hurricane, refuse to evacuate, and settle in with junk food and beer until their building threatens to collapse. Should they swim for it or not? A day of chaos takes its toll. Lives, belongings, and loved ones are swept away. Heroes are revealed as the city and New Yorkers struggle to face a natural disaster of epic proportions. And then the real challenge begins, as the survivors face their futures, with damage to repair and scars to heal. Keenly observed and brilliantly told, this is an unforgettable story that proves that while life can change in an instant, even the darkest storm can bring forth courage, resilience, unexpected joy, and new life. And it reminds us all that nature, at its fiercest, is a powerful force nothing and no one can resist.
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