Fiction - Family Life - General

Gerrie Hermann, aspiring rock star from a rich South African family, has an unusual proposal for Sophie Woods when he meets her for the first time in their university canteen. Strait-laced Sophie has never done anything out of the ordinary in the whole of...

The story of a poor girl who survived the most deprived childhood, to make a respectable marriage, always supported by her love and devotion for her brother John.In the marriage, however, there were many problems.Author: Diana Elizabeth TebbuttISBN-10: 1915338832ISBN-13: 9781915338839Publisher: UK Book PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Sally Forth is an intriguing saga of the tribulations which bedevil the first 30 years of Sally Bridge's life from her childhood growing up with her twin sister in a highly idiosyncratic household in 1980s Oldham, to her chaotic adult life in London. Sally...

An Idler's Life is an engaging Irish fiction novel that casts a harsh light on the reality of living with depression while being unemployed, and on the dire consequences of making life-changing mistakes.When a young Irishman named Paddy Dempsey reaches the end of his...

In Spring of 1954 Sheila, Arthur and Elaine Brooks are caught in a web of everyday lies, fibs and and deceptions. Fibs and myths like Father Christmas, bogey men, wicked witches and the origins of babies. Deceptions like, adultery, domestic abuse, illegal gambling and...

Life is never straightforward. Lizzie is fast approaching 50. Her once angst-ridden teenage daughters have flown the nest: Cassie to London and Maisy to Australia. And although Connor, Lizzie's teenage son, is now on his own tormented passage to adulthood, his quest to get...

Arianwen is someone for whom life comes easily. Hers is an ordinary life, in a hidden valley in West Wales during the first half of the 20th century, filled with the small pleasures that help us bear life's little tragedies.But in a fast-changing world,...

Clumsy Mumsy always tries her best, but as we all know sometimes things just don't go to plan.Marmalade Breakfast is humorous and full of charming illustrations representing an everyday family.It is an engaging story that can initiate a conversation about family values and no...

This romantic comedy about finding your place in the world "will make you laugh out loud and warm your heart from start to finish" (Books of All Kinds).Lydia knows first-hand that "having it all" isn't everything it's cracked up to be.As far as she's...

Can love defeat the laws of physics?Science teacher Alex Kavanagh's love life is imploding, his job repels him, and there's friction with the teenagers who bully him at the bus stop. Even his super-power - being pedantic - doesn't help much.Enter his ex, Lucy,...

In Sarah Hampton's first novel, Julia touched the hearts of many. Now she returns, older but still engaged with life and those around her. The arrival of a late-in-the-day grandson rejuvenates and enlivens Julia's declining years. Young Harry is as much an iconoclast as...

A tale based loosely in reality, this story traces the fortunes of the Ingles family in the West Riding coal fields around Wakefield. Theirs is a saga that could be replicated time after time in an area where scratching a living wasn't easy, and...

Alfie Dog, the founder of the Pet Dogs' Democratic Party and champion of the rights of the underdog, brings you 'Alfie's Diary - Dog enough not to be human, human enough to be a pet.' Alfie has written his diary as an internet blog...

Beautiful widow Joan D'Silva is at Calcutta's Howrah Station, fleeing Calcutta with her 11-year-old son Errol. On the same train is Lakshmi, a charismatic, sensual, and powerful hijira prostitute. Both women are fleeing to Lucknow in northern India to escape danger, but soon their...

"Gabe and I are happy this way. We don't need anyone else in our lives." Mariana feels like a pawn in other people's games. Her birth mother is ill and opportunities for them to be reconciled are running out. Despite being adopted, Mariana has...

Banana skins on the table is a look at the world through the diary entries of Nathan, a man who's not happy with life. He decides to take action, change his attitude towards life and work harder for complete contentment. Nathan begins by adjusting...

Could it happen? Is it real? Do you believe? Would you do the same for your love? These are just some of the questions you may find yourself asking while reading Seven Lives, Seven Games.The Lives . . . Two married couples learn they...

Set on the U.S. Island Territory of St. Croix and in the Eastern Unites States, Ayla's Paradise is the story of Ayla Walker Johnson -- a woman very much acquainted with adversity. The book explores how she overcomes that adversity and triumphs to provide...

A novel about domestic violence, drawn from the true stories of women who have been tormented at the hands of others.Author: Baden HillISBN-10: 1884730256ISBN-13: 9781884730252Publisher: Interlingua.Com, IncorporatedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/09/2009Pages: 422Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.94d

Moon Over The Manukau commences with the rural engagement of Ben Chester and Priscilla Caldwell on New Year's eve 1900. Simple as the engagement is it will lead to a saga of love and compassion, industry and pleasure and above all, generosity. As the...

North of Lithgow, New South Wales, on the edge of the Great Divide lies Cheshunt, a vast property where the rare and glorious waratahs grow. Home to the Richards family since 1905, Max is restoring Cheshunt to its former glory. It is now the...

The people of Tamarisk Bay are learning to deal with tragedy. It is one year after the start of the Second World War and coastal communities are having to cope with relentless German bombings. Hardship is affecting families on every level, from food rationing...

It comes as quite a shock to Mary Wilkinson when her 15-year old daughter Jane reveals she is pregnant. When Mary is left literally holding the baby, the relationship between mother and daughter falls apart. Mary's love of painting leads to a surprise friendship...

Fire from a Black Opal is the fourth of this series of Stories and Sketches. It contains the collections, Charity, A Hatchment and Brought Forward, published between 1912 and 1916, immediately prior to and during the First World War. Cunninghame Graham was by now...

Ice House of the Mind is the third of this series of Stories and Sketches. It contains the collections, His People, Faith and Hope, published between 1906 and 1910, which present a typical mix of Cunninghame Graham's stories set in widely separated locations and...

"Living with Ghosts", the second volume of this series, contains the collections of stories that Cunningham Graham published between 1900 and 1905, in the period immediately after he was forced to sell his estate of Gartmore and divide his time between London and the...

he works by R.B. Cunninghame Graham in this volume were published between 1895 and 1899. Notes on the District of Menteith (1895), while not a collection of stories, is included because it was Graham's first book, a brief survey of the district of Scotland...

Jezebel's Dust is the story of two young teenage girls infected by the love of uniforms in Edinburgh and London early in the war. They come from the slums and have no very high education or expectations, but the war is opening up new...

Ruth is a small solemn girl, growing up surrounded by elderly relatives in the 1930s - when the world was such a different place. War breaks out and the world changes around her. Love is found and lost, more than once. Ruth is torn...

I've had enough, Sarah thought suddenly... I wish I could just run away. That'd give Alec something to think about besides Tuscany and a partnership and the office bimbo. Sarah Kirkwood is fed up with her husband. He's thoughtless, self-centred and takes her completely...

A sweeping saga of migration and the challenges it presents one family, this is a story about sisters Ishani, who stays in Trinidad with the family business, and Amira, who migrates with her family to England. Ishani, the older sister full of bluff certainty,...

This the fourth of Valerie Hansard's books to be published by Grosvenor House Publishing within the last three years. The first was a book of short stories, followed by two novels: Knockramore and The Quarry.On Verity's Account is set mainly in Wanstead, East London....

Although brothers, Edward and Thomas are two very different characters. Thomas is the responsible, churchgoing family man while Edward is the black sheep; selfish, hedonistic and craving excitement. Betraying both his wife, Gladys, and his mistress, Evelyn, who bears his illegitimate child, he settles...

Two boys become close friends at school. One is shy but gifted musically, the other more extrovert protects and promotes his friend.In adulthood when one is in a successful rock band and the other is planning a business venture they conceal a serious crime...

The novel walks a line between comedy and wrenching sadness. It is fluently written and its depiction of domestic chaos ' is all too recognisable' Sunday Times A Family Man tells the story of thirty one year old Matt Webster, who arrives home from...

The Sunday Times bestselling novel, perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and The Rosie Project. My boss, Karen, says a friend is a stranger you haven't met yet. I think that's right. Veronica Ptitsky and Danny Flynn are strangers, except I...

When a group of North London writers meet each month for a chat, coffee, and cake - what else is on their agenda? Constructive criticism? New Ideas? An exciting project? And maybe, more than one prospective romance...?Eavesdrop on the monthly meetings of the North...

In The Sitter and Other Five Minute Stories, Sue Cole explores a quirky world of fantasy and reality as she offers a series of stories which will entertain and surprise for five minutes, but are worth reading again. So, if you are on a...

A wonderful new book from Tracy Baines's entertianing Seaside Girls series - prepare to laugh and cry... Can the Seaside Girls embrace the new year with courage... Cleethorpes, 1940 As the new year dawns the show at the Empire comes to an end, it's...

A well-known writer from the early 1950s, Bertrand Dawlish was admired especially for the series of novels entitled The Holly House Saga. Growing up sharing his father with the public had been difficult enough for his youngest son without being expected to follow him...

Forever A Stranger is a story of love, war and family breakdown and follows the lives of three generations in crisis during the 20th century.Sid Shavinsky and Esther Kopitch are children when they flee the pogroms of Russia and Poland with their parents in...

On the stunning coastline of western Ireland, a web of intrigue surrounds the O'Brien family and their five daughters.Aoifa was bestowed a spiritual gift from her mother and her grandmother before her but bizarrely it suddenly vanishes throwing her into turmoil and confusion.From the...

A laugh-out-loud, feel-good romantic comedy from bestseller Carmen Reid Every book in the Annie Valentine Series can be read as a standalone The opponents: mothers vs. daughters The battle scene: a boutique changing room Fashion-guru Annie's well-dressed world is falling apart ' first she...

A laugh-out-loud, feel-good romantic comedy from bestseller Carmen Reid Every book in the Annie Valentine Series can be read as a standalone The opponents: mothers vs. daughters The battle scene: a boutique changing room Fashion-guru Annie's well-dressed world is falling apart ' first she...

Temptation is always present but not necessarily abiding however, some folk just can't help themselves. The author invites the reader to experience, the trials and tribulations of Liz McKenna.The best woman's story ever: Written by a man.If anybody can, McCann Can.That's for sure.Author: Brendan...

Ten years on, Maccy Tamryn, eccentric landlord of the Mermaid and Bow public house, finds Kansas is no place to hide from the pain and loss of a loved one. Maccy will continue his entrepreneurial journey into Little Petrock, a short distance from Padstow...

24060422. Joel Lundy knew the moment he was issued his army service number that his destiny was set, his path concrete. 0422, the same last digits of his father Alfred.Alfred had turned the other direction after a long service with the Kings Hampshire Regiment,...

Charlotte had a normal family life full of the ups and downs of normal everyday living. After more than twenty years of marriage divorce came and went. After that an abusive relationship ensued which threaten to derail her very existence.Thinking that there was a...

Charlotte had a normal family life full of the ups and downs of normal everyday living. After more than twenty years of marriage divorce came and went. After that an abusive relationship ensued which threaten to derail her very existence.Thinking that there was a...

Matthew Collins works for an up-market estate agency in the West Country. He lives with his long-term partner, Sandra. She worries that he still has feelings for Charlotte, his ex-wife, who lives miles away in Sussex.When Sandra's frail old mother has an accident, Sandra...