Item category 1: Family Saga

As the year of 1936 draws to a close, the Richardson and Grindley families prepare to celebrate the holiday season at home in Westmoreland. But as the clans gather, some deeply-buried family secrets are about to re-emerge, transforming the lives of everyone involved.

1941. England is at its lowest ebb and terrified of imminent invasion. Even at Eden Park, confidence is at an all-time low, and that is before the authorities discover there is a double agent operating from its MI5 unit.

Harriet is expected to marry Marcus Wellbury - a very eligible bachelor - and it is not something she has any real problem with. Not until she meets Godfrey Lester, that is. He may not have Marcus' wealth and standing, but he does set her heart racing.

This is Daphne du Maurier's warm, human saga of a family of craftsmen in 18th century France - with the violence and terror of the Revolution as a clamouring background against which their loves and their hopes are played out.

This novel tells the story of the intertwined fates of two families, and Lamartines and the Kashpaws. The women at the heart of this extraordinary community are survivors in a harsh and tumultuous world, united and sustained by the strength and diversity of their love.

Belinda Davis had trained as a nurse to assist her older brother, Doctor Luke. But as time goes by and she sees those she's grown up with getting married and settling into their own lives, Belinda becomes restless. What had seemed exciting and fresh becomes dull and routine. When she meets an eld...

When ex-Crown Prince Gregory of Hirtenstein attends a week-long birthday party on a Greek millionaire's island, he begins to worry that something strange is going on and soon uncovers a plot which could involve three nations in a scandal.