Family life fiction

In school playgrounds across the country parents huddle in worried packs, desperately putting together their final plans to survive the summer weeks of mayhem - school is officially out!

Born into poverty, saddled with a born loser and parrot-strangler for a dad, short sighted and ungainly, young Henry Pratt doesn't exactly have a head start in life.

THE TWELFTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEAN We ll just have to carry on in the belief that the end of the war is finally in sight'It is 1944 and Anne Black is making the best of a new life in Somerset, but bringing up her daughters so far from their father, her mother Peggy and their real home of Cliffehaven isn t easy.

THE TENTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEAN I m not working on a factory floor or digging for victory, but in my own small way I do what I can for those I love.

Noel's sister, Ethel, is dying, and for the first time since childhood, he spends a week in her company.

One of the definitive novels of the twentieth century, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

The comforts and terrors of middle-class provincial life have seldom been more sharply dissected than by Stanley Middleton, and his new novel adds to this social insight a new poignancy.

John Riley is in his early-thirties and has been separated from his wife, Helen, for two years.

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A chance encounter with an old schoolfriend confronting a devastating disease leads Colin Turnbull to reassess his life.

John Taylor, an accountant, has been deserted by his wife, Stella, after three years of marriage.

Stanley Middleton has been described as the Chekhov of suburbia .

Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Observer Emma is young, rich and independent.

**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World** Discover Jane Austen's most beloved classic.

Margaret Kennedy caught just the taste of the time, mixing a stolid domestic Englishness with 'Continental' bohemians Irish TimesWilliam and Emily Crowne seem to have it all they live a life of privilege and glamour in London, the children of a successful poet, attractive, happy, largely blind to the world around them.

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE**'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon.

Elissa Koebel's memoir is as scandalous and self-absorbed as its writer, but for Hope, it is more than just the latest salacious read.

Kate is bored of being overlooked by her grown-up children and decides to escape on an Aegean cruise.

Margriet grew up as a lonely child in the old town of Hull.

'Absorbing and insightful .

From the author of the 2 million+ copy, worldwide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, - soon to be a major movie starring Jim Broadbent - an exquisite, funny and heartrending parallel story.

From bestselling author Katie Flynn.

The Three of Us is an exclusive short story introducing Zara, the village midwife whose story you can read in Follow Me Home, and bringing us up to date with what's happened to Tessa and Jack from The Village VetTessa and Jack live at the animal sanctuary in Talyton St George.

In the 1920s, nobody is safe from scandal.

Originally published in 1929, "e;Undine"e; is a semi-autobiographical novel about life in colonial South Africa.

I never think of Laura as my step-sister, but that s what she is.

Everyone has secrets.

I often think my mother would prefer colonic irrigation to hanging out with me.

Seventeen year old Katie is about to discover a devastating family secret.

This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1896 and is now being here republished with a brand new introductory biography.

Virginius Littlepage is a lawyer working in Queensborough, Canada.

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet during the turn of the 20th century.

This antiquarian volume contains the narrative of a year in the life of a content, normal but extremely imaginative boy growing up with his two siblings and his dog, Hamlet, in Colchester-by-the-sea, Cornwall.

This antiquarian volume contains 'Mrs.

In Chancery is the second novel of the Forsyte Saga trilogy by John Galsworthy and was originally published in 1920, some fourteen years after The Man of Property.

This early work by Sheridan Le Fanu was originally published in 1838.

This early work by E.

Judith Paris returns to the Lake District to settle a family feud in this third volume of Hugh Walpole's, The Herries Chronicle.

This volume contains Hugh Walpole's 1915 collection of short stories, entitled "e;The Golden Scarecrow"e;.

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This volume contains Jerome Klapka Jerome's 1919 novel, "e;All Roads Lead to Calvary"e;.

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This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1924 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

"e;Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys"e; is an 1871 novel by American author Louisa May Alcott.

"e;Jo's Boys"e; is a 1886 novel written by an author Louisa May Alcott.

This early work by Robert Barr was originally published in 1892 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

This early work by Robert Barr was originally published in 1896 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

This scarce novel is one of several books set in the fictional Scottish village of Thrums and written by Sir James Matthew Barrie.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

A Tangled Web is a captivating novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery, following the lives of two interconnected families over the course of a tumultuous year, filled with both heartbreak and hilarity.