Generational sagas

Best mates Mark and Pete board a train to London for their lads' night out. As Pete finds a seat he notices a girl sitting on a bench. She looks sad and lonely. When the train leaves, he can't get her out of his mind because in her, he has seen a glimpse of himself.

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...

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...

Noel and Lisa are among the most supportive parents at the nursery school. Never late to pick up their little girl, always patient and delighted to see her at the end of the day. But in fact neither of them is Frankie's parent. They have no blood relationship at all to this little girl.

At Stone House, Henry and Nicola are burdened with a terrible secret. Winnie finds herself on the holiday from hell. Then there's John, who arrived on impulse after he missed a flight at Shannon; eccentric Freda, who claims to be a psychic - and the silent, watchful Nell, who seems so ready to di...

Edith Trewin, the general maid in the Killivert household, and Miss Alicia, the young lady of the house are social worlds apart. However, the two young women form an unconventional bond of understanding, mutual respect and friendship which remains with them as they experience love and loss as the...

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...

Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II, which begins with 'The Winds of War' and continues in 'War and Remembrance', stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of glob...

Set between 1939 and 1959 this is a story of love, war and chocolate. It traces the lives of three very different women who work at Cadbury's factory. During the Blitz an infant, mysteriously abandoned during the bombing, is handed into one of the women's care and steals her heart.

Continuing the saga begun in 'Chocolate Girls', and set in 1960s Birmingham, this is a story of families whose lives are entwined, of belonging and loss - and of a young woman's search for transforming love.