Family life fiction

Rose Pendlebury has little in common with her Islington neighbours.

To Penelope Butler the family was all, the sole ambition of her adult life.

Rowena wants a baby.

What do men run away from?

London 1844, and a shy young woman has arrived to take up a new position in the grandeur of No.

Georgy is young, gregarious and fun - she is also large, self-confessedly ugly and desperate for love.

Catherine's mother died when Catherine was just a baby girl, leaving nothing but her perfect reputation to live up to.

Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over.

Don and Louise's eighteen-year-old daughter Miranda has died in a sailing accident.

Hebe sits in the darkness and listens to her hypocritical grandparents and her older siblings discuss how her unexpected pregnancy must be terminated to avoid the shame it will bring.

Escape to the Cornish cliffs in the dizzying heat of August 1939, where five cousins are making the most of the last summer of their youth.

Henry Tillotson, a generous, genial man who inherited his father's philanthropic attitude along with his beautiful house, rescues Margaret from a disastrous marriage in Egypt and brings her home to the West Country as his new wife.

Matilda Poliport, recently widowed and largely estranged from her four adult children, has decided to End It All.

Flora Trevelyan is a ten-year-old misfit, despised by her selfish and indolent parents, and left to wander the streets of a small French town whilst her parents prepare to depart for life in colonial India.

Poppy Carew has just been dumped by her unscrupulous boyfriend, Edmund, when her beloved and eccentric father dies, leaving Poppy one last request - that she ensure he is buried in style by a 'fun' undertaker - and one large fortune.

Laura Thornby is independent, individual and perfectly in control of her life.

When, on the night of their wedding, Ned asks his new wife Rose to promise that she will never leave him, Rose is quick to give her aristocratic husband her word: keeping it, however, proves harder.

Madeleine - the spoilt daughter of wealthy parents who abandons her babies to search for the only man she will ever have.

Dot Tegydd is the third daughter of propertied parents who longed for a son.

The wonderful fourth outing for Delhi detective Vish Puri ('the Indian Hercule Poirot' Financial Times).

From the highly-acclaimed author of SMALL PLEASURES - winner of the 2022 British Book Awards.

To their neighbours in suburban Holt, New York, the Winters family has it all: a grand home, a trio of radiant daughters and a sense of security in their affluent corner of America.

Fans of Dilly Court, Kitty Neale, Emma Hornby and Rosie Goodwin will love this vivid and compelling saga, set around Tiger Bay and Cardiff.

Claudia and her younger sister, Jenny, live with their parents, Louisa and Cormack Muldoon, in their grandmother's house in Blodwen Street.

Liverpool, Christmas 1938.

Liverpool, 1923Lizzie is an orphan living with her Aunt Annie, Uncle Perce and two boy cousins in Cranberry Court, within a stone's throw of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

The year is 1925, and in Liverpool, Rose Ryder worships her father, a tram-driver.

Liverpool, 1936Polly's guardian angel has to work overtime when her large family is forced to move to central Liverpool.

Even as little girls, Sarah and Emily are very different from each other.

Meet Maggie Moran.

Ben Joe is the only boy in a family of six sisters, Mama and Gram.

* One of the Daily Telegraph's 100 GREATEST NOVELS OF ALL TIME *A beautiful book on family to guide you through this festive season.

Read Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler's classic exploration of the impact of grief on a family.

William Dublin is middle-aged, a distinguished biographer seeking increased accomplishment and the key to his inner feelings.

'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain.

A big, glorious novel in every sense, this sprawling family saga is a funny and big-hearted epic from a seriously gifted wordsmith Marie ClaireRead the sweeping and enchanting new novel from the author of The Giant s HouseBertha is an enigma to everyone in Salford, Massachusetts ever since she was discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery with nothing but a bowling ball, a candlepin and fifteen pounds of gold on her person.

A Caribbean country on the verge of collapse.

Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I ve ever read MARK HADDON'Original.

Liz and Jonathan are in trouble.

In a small town in South India, beneath the brutal summer sun, a young girl watches anxiously as tensions simmer, then boil over.

Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport is trying to make a living as a writer.

One of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century, Richard Yate's universally acclaimed debut novel is a masterful portrait of East Coast life in 1950s suburbia.

John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son.

Set in 1968 in the Parisian suburbs, No Telling is narrated by twelve-year-old Gilles as he approaches his Solemn Communion, puberty, and some sense of the chaos around him.

Read Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler's funny and uplifting exploration of what it is to be an outsider.

Discover Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler's deeply personal American historical epic.

'Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her a claim to be the Jane Austen of our age' Daily MailHaving sacked her handyman, newly-widowed Mrs Emerson finds a replacement in Elizabeth, a lanky, awkward girl.

A novel which chronicles the lines of three generations of the Brangwen family and the emergence of modern England.

If you like Philippa Gregory, you will love this vibrant and captivating historical page-turner from multi-million copy and international bestselling author Jean Plaidy - the perfect blend of history with romance and drama.

A deliciously atmospheric, moving and evocative historical novel from multi-million copy and international bestselling author Jean Plaidy - perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory.