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No Greater Love is a powerful, heartwarming family drama set in Derbyshire around WW1, from bestselling author and Queen of the Saga, Margaret Dickinson. A troubled family. A young woman seeking refuge . . . Derbyshire, 1904. After a family tragedy and a broken engagement dramatically alter her...

A Mother's Sorrow is a heart-rending family drama set around WW1 from bestselling author and Queen of the Saga, Margaret Dickinson. Three young women. Two families united. A bond that can’t be broken . . . Sheffield, 1892. Patrick Halliday rules his family with a rod of iron. He’s hard on...

THE BRAND-NEW WARTIME SAGA SERIES BY MAGGIE MASON, MUCH-LOVED AUTHOR OF THE HALFPENNY GIRLS Troubles lie ahead - will friendship see them through? BLACKPOOL, 1918. Martha is seventeen and alone in the world. Of Irish descent, her flashing green eyes see into your soul. Foretelling the future is...

When the distressing shadows of war fall across Europe, Olivia Brodie watches the man she loves, Captain Spencer Middleton, lead his men proudly to the front, his final words a promise to return. Left behind among the working-class neighbours she calls family, Olivia clings to hope as the world around her changes forever. Her spirited younger brother, Lachie, eager to prove himself, enlists underage – his letters home filled with bravado and dreams of glory.

Peggy and Dar Tenant’s dream for security and respectability has been their driving force since they married. Just as they prepare to buy their own home, tragedy strikes, when Dar is involved in a devastated accident at the docks and Peggy’s world crashes around her. With Dar seriously ill in hospital Peggy’s reduced to scrimping and saving to keep a roof over her family’s head having to revisit the hardships of her youth that she dearly wanted to escape from.

The Emperor's Tomb is a magically evocative, haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and to the passing of time and the loss of youth and friends. Prophetic and regretful, intuitive and exact, Roth's acclaimed novel is the tale of one man's struggle to come to terms with the uncongenial society of post-First World War Vienna and the first intimations of Nazi barbarities.

'Bright, pacy... Fans of Downton Abbey will adore this, and it would be surprising if the book weren't made into a luscious mini-series'The Sunday Times 'A captivating and page-turning novel about a fascinating family. Fantastic' Sinéad Moriarty Step inside the extraordinary world of the Bright...

In this moving, coming-of-age novel set in the heart of Eastern Europe during the years between the World Wars, a random act of violence by local anti-Semitic thugs casts Wolchi, a trusting and superstitious teenage boy, and Leja, his bookish but independent older sister, on a life-changing journey through a world gone mad. The story unfolds over 15 years in the small towns of Western Ukraine, the urban sophistication of 1930s Krakow, and a wartime Soviet Union.

The Family Koenig is a historical novel about several generations of physicians in a Jewish family during the core years of the 20th century. It is a gripping book that is rich with historical detail that contains love stories, abandonment, wars, murders and suicides; and yet is a meditation on how its physicians find inner strength, become true healers, and find and nurture love.

Eine Familie. Eine Vision. Ein Weg. Hamburg 1912: Der junge Kaufmann Otto Lagerfeld ist zu Besuch bei seiner Familie, als er zufällig der Schwester seines besten Freundes begegnet. Er ist sofort von Theresias Liebreiz bezaubert. Zum Abschied schenkt sie ihm ein vierblättriges Kleeblatt als Glücksbringer. Trotz seiner aufregenden Reisen kann Otto Theresia nicht vergessen, ihren Glücksbringer trägt er immer bei sich. Doch gerade als Ottos neugegründetes Unternehmen zu florieren beginnt, bricht der Krieg aus, und er gerät in Gefangenschaft.

Im gutbürgerlichen Haushalt der Chindlers spielt man Klavier und geht sonntags in die Kirche. Es ist das Jahr 1914. Theodor Chindler, Abgeordneter der katholischen Zentrumspartei und Familienoberhaupt, macht Politik im Berliner Reichstag, während seine Söhne Ernst und Karl fürs Vaterland an die Front ziehen. Zu Hause diskutieren die anderen Familienmitglieder hitzig über den Kaiser, das Elend in den Lazaretten und den Seekrieg - und so brechen die politischen Überzeugungen auseinander.

The story opens in Newcastle, Northern England, and we meet J.B. Sutherland—brewer and eventually the owner of the Victorian pub by the River Tyne, The Barley Mow. The family saga is told by his middle daughter, Elizabeth, whose childhood is wonderful until her father suddenly dies, and their eldest illegitimate brother, John Thomas, shows up at their father's funeral to inherit the pub.