Time period: 1945-

The Second World War is over, peace has been declared - but the ravages remain and the Lytton family must confront the future and themselves.

The Second World War is over, peace has been declared - but the ravages remain and the Lytton family must confront the future and themselves.

1945. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor's deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved E...

1945. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor's deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved E...

1945. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor's deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved E...

Lydia Weekes is a beautiful young woman, although she hardly knows it. Her volatile ex-soldier husband ignores her & then he is gone completely, leaving her to support her son Charlie on her own. A secretive & perceptive schoolboy, Charlie is increasingly left to his own devices - until he befrie...

Alighting on such random topics as Mike Read's musical of Oscar Wilde, fat comedians, the banking crisis and the evil phenomenon that is Jedward, this is a collection from The Times columns of Frank Skinner.

Jason Taylor is 13, doomed to be growing up in the most boring family in the deadest village in the dullest county in the most tedious nation on earth. This book follows 13 months in his life as he negotiates the pitfalls of school and home and contends with bullies, girls and politics.

Focusing on his own small children in the small village near Verona where he lives, Tim Parks builds up a fascinating picture of the contemporary Italian family. This is the sequel to Italian Neighbours.

Andrew Marr tells the story of how the great political visions came to be defeated by consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification - and, every time, the British people turned out to be stroppier and harder to herd than before.

A moving and revealing insight into the real experiences of women welcoming home their menfolk from the Second World War - often after years of separation, during which their men, and the women themselves, had changed irrevocably.

Picking up where 'Nella Last's War' left off, this diary tells the story of her post-war struggles and describes what ordinary people felt during those years of privation, hope and rebuilding - and whether 'peace' really meant 'peace' for everyone.

Richard Cobb, the incomparable historian of the French Revolution, had an affinity with France that went far beyond academic interest. Divided into three parts, this book provides the best of Cobb's evocation of France.

Set against a background of wartime deprivation, glittering showgirls and seedy provincial boarding houses, this is a story of two talented young dancers, of powerful friendship, sacrifice and ambition.

In Notes From a Small Island, Bryson, who moved to England from the USA and settled in North Yorkshire with his family, turns an affectionate but ironic eye on his adopted country. The book is now a major TV series on Carlton.

'Family Britain' continues David Kynaston's groundbreaking series 'Tales of a New Jerusalem', telling as never before the story of Britain from VE Day in 1945 to the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979.

Palestine, 1948. Half a million Palestinians are forced from their homes. A mother clutches her six-month-old son as Israeli soldiers march through the village of Ein Hod. In a split second, her son is snatched from her arms and the fate of the Abulheja family is changed forever. Forced into a re...

Continuing the story of Bess Bennett, she now is married to her childhood sweetheart Ian Sinclair. Her chief concern is her two sons. One is from a former marriage, and the jealousy between them has hardened into something that threatens everything Bess has worked for.

It is 1946. The war is over, but England is still a dark and gloomy place. As the various members of the Granville family struggle to come to terms with their changed circumstances, family loyalties are strained and sibling relationships tested.

One of the most talked about debut novels of all time, 'White Teeth' is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tri...