Item category 1: Family Saga

As Maddy journeys around the north of England with Morgan's Melody Makers, she makes new friends everywhere she goes. Now 17, she is eager to take her first steps along the road to love. But, as she is to discover, the course of true love never did run smoothly.

Living in a small Wiltshire village, Abbie's world is cast into crisis when she reaches the age of 12. Six years later, when the family have rebuilt their lives, she and her sister set off for the fair. There, an encounter with a stranger leads to tragedy.

Freda Lightfoot turns her focus to the goings-on behind the scenes at Bertalone's Ice Cream Parlour in this novel set in the heart of Manchester's Champion Street Market.

The third gritty Yorkshire novel from the author of 'Women of Iron' and 'Silk and Steel', 'Without a Mother's Love' follows the misfortunes of two women, as they endeavour to escape the lives forced upon them in a harsh 19th-century Yorkshire.

When Kate Cleary's father is killed in the pit, her first emotion is one of relief: a nasty bully, he has made her life hell since her mother died. But after finding a mysterious collection of letters hidden by her father, Kate discovers an unknown aunt in the Midlands who soon offers her a home.

'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.

Two years have passed for Livia and her sisters and finally all seems well for them. Livia is set to marry Jack and her sisters are, for the moment, settled on Todd Farm. Livia also wants to bring back to life the neglected family business but is she prepared to jeopardize her future life with Ja...

Ellie decamps home after bumping into her boyfriend and his wife. Tea and sympathy from grandad Trevor help, as does the distracting and hunky Gabriel. Then a visitor turns Trevor's world upside down and takes them all back to the Welsh valleys in wartime.

Set in Lancashire and Western Australia in the 1860s, Anna Jacobs' entrancing new saga follows the fortunes of the family that first appeared in 'Farewell To Lancashire'.

The Arnold family have worked the farmland for as far back as they can remember. Well-respected and comfortable in their small, close community, it seems nothing could upset their quiet everyday routine. Then Alice enters their lives.