Fiction - Sagas

Set in the semi-arid backlands of northeastern Brazil and spanning one century and three generations, this family saga is a complex psychological portrait of family life, intertwined with Brazil's history from the birth of the republic to the end of the military dictatorship in...

Set in the semi-arid backlands of northeastern Brazil and spanning one century and three generations, this family saga is a complex psychological portrait of family life, intertwined with Brazil's history from the birth of the republic to the end of the military dictatorship in...

She thought the worst was behind her . . . Life is tough in Lancashire in 1905 - and especially so for fifteen-year-old Mary Ann, who was born out of wedlock. When her new stepfather begins to abuse her, Mary Ann doesn't know how...

She thought she could trust him . . . Eva Kershaw thought she would never marry, and is happy living a quiet life with her dear friend Alice. But Alice is ill, and her nephew, Gus, has thrust himself into their household. Alice's dearest...

There is no love like a mother's for her child . . . Little Billy, Polly's son, is the light of her life. It's for his sake that she puts up with an unkind mother-in-law and life on an isolated farm. When Billy is...

A brand new heart-warming and atmospheric saga fiction series from Jean Fullerton, charting the loves, jobs and heartaches of three women who move into a rectory in Stepney, East London during WW2. East London, 1940. At the outbreak of war, hopeless romantic Prue Carmichael...

The second book in a brand-new WWI saga series, inspired by the Saward family, who ran the station at Wolferton in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through this family we get a glimpse into all walks of life - from royalty to...

A heartwarming and inspiring saga of a female police office during World War IIAuthor: Shirley MannISBN-10: 1838774475ISBN-13: 9781838774479Publisher: ZaffreLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/08/2023Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbs

Liverpool, 1944 Though they may be posted miles apart, Cadi and Jez's love for one another is stronger than ever - until Cadi receives a heart-breaking call from Jez's base. Cadi races to be with her beau and. at his bedside, they make each...

1941. Bombs are falling all over Plymouth. Young Maisie O'Sullivan must make a choice that will change her life for ever. Maisie yearns for a family of her own. Raised as a charity orphan in a Catholic convent in Ireland, she believed she was...

Will it be tears or triumph for the Hat Girl from Silver Street?It's been five years since Ella Bancroft lost the love of her life, Harper Fortescue, and despite her friends' encouragement, she's still not been able to move on. The one thing keeping...

The captivating new novel from Diney Costeloe, bestselling author of The Throwaway Children and The Girl With No Name. In London in 1912, Mabel Oakley and her family are typical of their time. Her father Andrew is a solicitor, her mother Alice keeps the...

FEAR OF THE GUN: In February 1849, Lorenzo, a Mexican American war veteran, walks west from Albuquerque toward the Alta California gold fields. Lost in the Ponderosa Pines of the San Francisco Peaks mountain range, Lorenzo is saved from hypothermia and Cholera by Hanna,...

With her trademark warmth and powerful characters, Winter's Daughter is a stunning new Victorian saga from the Sunday Times bestseller Val Wood - about a young child separated from her mother, and the family who bring her in from the cold. Praise for Val...

A brand-new page-turning Victorian saga from the bestselling and RNA shortlisted author. 'If you enjoy Dilly Court's stories, you'll love the latest heart-warming romance from Emma Hornby.' Yours -------Jenny and her little brother Noah are orphans, living hand to mouth in a cellar dwelling...

"You will be loved many times by many men. But you will only ever love one man. And that man will be your destruction." Wren Whitney lives a remarkable life. She is a child of Beverly Hills, growing up in boarding schools, on private...

Money. Power. Lies. Murder. Some families will do whatever it takes to win. Carson Winters does as he pleases, without guilt or shame. And no one can stop him. But his judgment day is coming. This series about the Winters family is a complicated...

She carried the secret a lifetime. Her deathbed confession would stun everyone she knew. This series about the Winters family is a complicated tale of the family with nothing but secrets. Get this fast paced final installment in the saga of the Winters family....

Power. Deception. Murder. The continuing story of the Winters and Fairchild families. Years have passed and they have moved on. Or have they? For the Winters and Fairchild families, life is never what it seems. When a mystery begins to unfold, their world is...

The Far West. The Scent of Lemons Italian saga continues with two Sicilian immigrant brothers' choices in America: the one that did and the one that didn't. While Baldassare Licata, the oldest, struggles to make an honest living for his growing family, Nick, the...

From acclaimed author Daniel H. Turtel, winner of the Faulkner Society Award for Best Novel, comes The Family Morfawitz, a gripping Jewish family saga inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses. When Hadassah Morfawitz flees Nazi Germany with her siblings and arrives in New York, she is...

Bad dreams always end the same; eventually you wake up. But Nick is trapped in a living nightmare with no end in sight. After his pack fails to rescue him, Nick and his friends are whisked to a new fighting pit that's bigger and...

On a June morning in the century's infancy, Cyrus Braithwaite--without explanation--orders his three teenage sons to sail from their Maine home and not return until September. The three boys and a friend board the Braithwaites's forty-six-foot schooner and begin a perilous journey down the...

Everyone in these parts knew the 'big reds' start appearing around four in the afternoon and accumulate on the roads especially at night. So it was never a question of you might hit one because if you were driving at night it was more...

In the first volume of A Tale of Two Times, The Menace of the Ancient Foe, after a few adventures, such as taming the Fontana Few motorcycle gang and finding Soviet Atomic bombs stashed on American soil, Rhoda Knox unexpectedly encounters the Ancient Foe...

New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart weaves the enthralling tale of two kindred spirits reunited after years apart.On the fast track at a Philadelphia consulting firm, Abigail McKenna has put her personal life on hold, content to focus on her professional success. But...

The Emergency rumbles through the jungle, the kampongs, and towns as the communist uprising in 1950's Malaya adds poignancy to the salutation, 'have you eaten rice today? when hunger drives some terrorists to surrender.Simon Frampton returns to Malaya as a rubber planter after failing...

Second chances show up when you're not looking for them... Cindy Lawry needs a new roommate now that her sister Julia has moved in with her fiancé, Deacon. When she can't find anyone, she puts up a flyer in the window of the Curl...

Summoned by her aunt and uncle to help with her recently orphaned cousin, nineteen-year-old Merritt Hall arrives in Mobile, Alabama, at the end of summer in 1897. Straight-laced Merritt and fifteen-year-old Winifred clash with most of what's important to the elder cousin-decorum, responsibility, and...

Spanning four generations and an infinite range of human emotions, When We Were Young is the story of the Mitchell family beginning in England at the outbreak of World War II, chronicling the triumphs and tragedies of those tumultuous times. But most of all,...

In these eight short fictions, Hernstrom feeds on an autochthon rage, speaks directly but not simply in tones strong enough to convey sibilant victory or the clamor of disaster. Somehow he also manages to imbue dark tales with a mordant wit many admire, but...

In these eight short fictions, Hernstrom feeds on an autochthon rage, speaks directly but not simply in tones strong enough to convey sibilant victory or the clamor of disaster. Somehow he also manages to imbue dark tales with a mordant wit many admire, but...

"Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory." John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble...

Sexy, mysterious, with secrets hiding in the darkest of shadows, Donovan Sherman has stopped at nothing to achieve success. No one was immune. One snowy night, his world and his life changed when he found Julia McGrath at the side of the road. Finders...

Queenie Brogan wasn't always an East End matriarch. Many years ago, before she married Fergus, she was Philomena Dooley, a daughter of Irish Travelers, planning to wed her childhood sweetheart, Patrick Mahone. But when tragedy struck and Patrick's narrow-minded sister, Nora, intervened, the lovers...

Growing up on the thriving plantation called The Meadows, Lillian Booth cherishes the brightest, happiest dreams ...Lillian's world is full of grand parties, sunshine, and promises, as thrilling as the fairy tales Mama spins for her and her little sister, Eugenia. No one, not...

Manchester, 1922 Molly Watson has had enough. Engaged for the last three years to a penny-pinching pedant, she finally decides she'd rather be a surplus girl than marry a man she doesn't truly love. Aware of the need to support herself if she is...

Suffolk, 1925: after the death of her father, a much-loved Punch and Judy man, May Moon packs her bags and moves to the seaside in the hope of continuing his legacy. Already tasked with looking after her younger sister, May little imagines her summer...

Author: Eileen RamsayISBN-10: 1785762222ISBN-13: 9781785762222Publisher: ZaffreLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/23/2017Pages: 464Format: Paperback

Will an unlikely friendship be enough to save them? After escaping a train bound for a death camp with a trusty German Shepherd dog, a girl wakes to find that she has no memory of her former life. Lily is fostered by the kind...

859, Northumbria: in England before the Norman Conquest, a land ruled by rival kings, Radmer of Donmouth is guardian of the estuary, the gateway to Northumbria. When his king sends him on a mission to Rome, Donmouth is left in the safekeeping of Radmer's...

1950s Liverpool: in the tight-knit Irish Catholic community of the Four Streets, two girls are growing up. One is motherless--and hated by the cold woman who is determined to take her dead mother's place. The other is hiding a dreadful secret which she dare...

Caminos tells the story of Mercedes Gonz疝ez Conde and her daughter, granddaughter and great-grandson. Each of them live and love, cope with and compound their inner troubles as issues of abandonment, attachment, identity and rootlessness circle around and through them. The novel is set...

Maggie Wilson was only 33, but life in the teeming streets of Walworth was not that easy in 1908 - not if you were a widow with four young daughters. It was pretty much a hand-to-mouth existence, and without the lodger Maggie really wouldn't...

Author: April DavilaISBN-10: 1665118342ISBN-13: 9781665118347Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/25/2020Format: CD

He's a playboy rock star who needs a fake girlfriend.Except the only one available already stole his heart.Dash Kingston is living the rock 'n' roll dream. Fame, money, groupies, rolling up to red-carpet events in his baby, a Ferrari V12. Until a very real...

He's a playboy rock star who needs a fake girlfriend.Except the only one available already stole his heart.Dash Kingston is living the rock 'n' roll dream. Fame, money, groupies, rolling up to red-carpet events in his baby, a Ferrari V12. Until a very real...

"Thunder and Lightning" is the story of two men, Soapy Almayer and Jimmy Clarges. When they go to work in a lumber camp, their extraordinary strength and the speed that they work leads to their being called Thunder and Lightning. Then one man, afraid...

Secrets can't last forever in this heartfelt debut novel, a UK bestseller and contemporary Philomena story. In a crumbling mansion in a small Irish village in County Wicklow, two elderly sisters, Ella and Roberta O'Callaghan, live alone in Roscarbury Hall with their secrets, memories,...

In a period of irreversible change, the Redcliffe sisters face monumental love and loss that will stretch the bounds of sisterhood to their limits...As the perils of World War II loom ever closer, Chiara is more interested in the joyful whirl of the season...