Item category 1: Family Saga

As death and destruction fall from the skies day after day in the London Blitz, Australian ambulance driver Lily Brennan, confronts the horror with bravery. Although she must rely upon her colleagues to carry out her dangerous duties, Lily begins to suspect that someone at her Ambulance Station m...

As death and destruction fall from the skies day after day in the London Blitz, Australian ambulance driver Lily Brennan, confronts the horror with bravery. Although she must rely upon her colleagues to carry out her dangerous duties, Lily begins to suspect that someone at her Ambulance Station m...

Young Maisie Halliday has escaped the grinding poverty of the northern town where she was born to live in the glittering world of professional dancing. At the outbreak of the Second World War, she volunteers as an ambulance driver. Maisie is at the Cafe de Paris nightclub when it is bombed. In th...

Young Maisie Halliday has escaped the grinding poverty of the northern town where she was born to live in the glittering world of professional dancing. At the outbreak of the Second World War, she volunteers as an ambulance driver. Maisie is at the Cafe de Paris nightclub when it is bombed. In th...

Celia Ashton has driven ambulances throughout the Blitz for the Bloomsbury Auxiliary Ambulance Depot. Cool under fire, she revels in her exciting and extremely dangerous job. When her husband, a known Nazi supporter, is released from prison, Celia refuses to return to her unhappy marriage. Instea...

The Hon. Celia Ashwin is young, beautiful, upper-class - and a volunteer ambulance driver at the Bloomsbury Auxiliary Ambulance Depot. Cool under fire, she revels in her exciting and extremely dangerous job. When her husband, a notorious fascist, is released from prison, rather than return to her...

Nell and her partner Adrienne are about to have a baby. For Adrienne, it's the start of a new life. For Nell, it's the reason the two of them are sitting in a therapist's office. Because she can't go into this without dealing with the truth: that she has been a mother before, and now she can hard...

Set in the aftermath of World War II, Elizabeth Morton's 'Angel of Liverpool' is a gritty and emotionally compelling historical saga from an author who was born and bred in Liverpool. Her mother called her Angel but now she's a fallen woman. There are different opinions as to what happened to Eva...

Her mother called her Angel but now she's a fallen woman. There are different opinions as to what happened to Evangeline O'Leary's mother. Her younger sisters believe the story that she's in heaven. But Evie has heard the gossips - that her ma upped and left with the man she had an affair with wh...

As bombs whistle down on the North East of England during the Second World War, Marie Larsen fights to keep her family safe. When her father goes missing and her mother is injured during an air raid, only Marie is left to look after her brother and sister, Pam and Alfie. Marie knows that the safe...