Item category 1: Family Saga

Julie and Dicky Otterman are the latest arrivals at Grundys fair with an extraordinary new act: the motorcycle extravaganza, the wall of death. But all is not as it seems beneath the surface, and Dickys dark and violent nature means Julie lives in constant fear.Gemma still knows Velda's secret. R...

When jeweller Edwin Jardine gives a job to Hilda Thorpe, his daughter Jane suspects that he's been blinded by the widow's good looks. Jane knows her father deserves happiness again after the death of her mother, but must it be with Hilda? With the help of her fiance, Nick, Jane unravels the shock...

Moira and Jack Taylor own a thriving rag-and-bone business and have six children. Their contented family life is upset when their eldest daughter, Nora, steals 18-year-old Maggie's fiance, Robert, a widower with a young son. Maggie, heartbroken, swears that she will never forgive her sister's bet...

When terrible tragedy strikes at the local colliery, the residents of Fairly Terrace's ten houses suffer more than one loss and for Maggie Donovan the world turns upside down. Turning for comfort to the one man she can trust, she finds a sudden and undeniable passion instead. But any future with ...

It's the 1950s and Grundy's Travelling Fair arrives in town with a bang. When night falls, the local town is drawn to the Fair. But when the fairgoers head home, the Grundys are left behind. Hours are long and the work back-breaking. But family and friends hold things together. Gemma married into...

'All The Nice Girls' captures the danger & excitement of wartime Britain with a sweeping story of heroic deeds & painful separations, illicit love & battles at sea, & above all, of the poignancy of longing & loss.

Prue Weston runs her family farm on the edge of the Pennines, throwing herself into her work after becoming a widow. As the war comes to an end, romance blossoms between Prue and a German POW, Nikolaus. But falling in love with a German means she must fight for her love, not only against the conc...

Prue Weston runs her family farm on the edge of the Pennines, throwing herself into her work after becoming a widow. As the war comes to an end, romance blossoms between Prue and a German POW, Nikolaus. But falling in love with a German means she must fight for her love, not only against the conc...

1939. When war is declared, twins Shirley and Tom are evacuated to the coastal town of Worthing. Almost 14, they are very close to their mother, but leaving London is the only way to keep them safe. Shirley is the bright one of the pair, whereas Tom is sometimes slow to understand the world aroun...

Fern Jenkins' life is changed for ever when her brother is killed in action and her father dies in a mining explosion. Turned out of their home, Fern and her mother Wynne are forced to seek a new life in Cardiff. When her mother dies in an influenza epidemic, Fern has no one to protect her from h...