Item category 1: Family Saga

Spring, 1942. Lizzie is making plans for her wedding with fiance Bill. But preparations during wartime aren't easy, and attacks on the Yorkshire port of Kelthorpe are only getting worse. Connie wants to be there for her sister, but she has troubles of her own - a secret that is driving a wedge be...

Spring, 1942. Lizzie is making plans for her wedding with fiance Bill. But preparations during wartime aren't easy, and attacks on the Yorkshire port of Kelthorpe are only getting worse. Connie wants to be there for her sister, but she has troubles of her own - a secret that is driving a wedge be...

After a bomb destroys Esme's London home, killing her son instantly, she moves to her old country house in Devon to begin the impossible task of recuperating. Soon she is drawn back into the world of espionage, and as her marriage starts to crumble, a local airman pulls her closer. Meanwhile her ...

Manchester industrialist William Rose needs a wife, and Octavia Marshall - one of the notorious ladies of Carson Street - has a plan. They strike a marriage deal but have no idea that the lives they once led will follow them wherever they go.

March 1911: Betty Dean needs a job and somewhere to live, and eventually, a husband - according to her mother. Sent into service at Stowford House in Cheshire, where the days are long and the work is gruelling, Betty's dreams of making something of herself seem even further away. But soon she is ...

Still grieving the death of her watchman husband in a terrorist attack during the Outrages, factory worker Rose is struggling to make ends meet when she encounters middle-class Annie, a newspaperman's wife who devotes her time to lobbying for better working conditions. Rose is desperate to avoid ...

The long, dark days of struggle provide the background to this book in the Cazalet Chronicle. As the war enters its fourth year, chaos has become a way of life, as the family find the battle for survival echoes the confusion in their lives.

Helen Bygrove manages the hotel after her husband is conscripted. But after poison pen letters are sent about various prominent business people in the town, suspicion falls upon the staff of the Beach Hotel and Helen finds herself drawn into a police investigation.

After Pearl's home is destroyed in the Exeter Blitz, so too are her dreams of performing onstage. Finding work as a bus conductress instead, a chance encounter revives her hopes once more, and soon she is singing for the troops alongside new friend Ivy. When agent Gordon Gold approaches them, Ivy...

Bolton, Lancashire: 1943. Livvy knows that her family's survival rests on her shoulders - with her parents gone, it falls to her to support her grandfather and her younger sister, Joan. Times are tough, largely due to the hardships of war, and Livvy knows that she will struggle to keep her family...