Family life fiction

Can two sisters forget the past and hope to be reunited?

When a bomb takes away all memory of her former life, can Nellie hope for happiness again?

From the bestselling author of THE RISE AND FALL OF A YUMMY MUMMY.

LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN NOT THE BOOKER PRIZEOne family, one town, devastated by one tragic event.

A tightly spun, atmospheric and powerful psychological suspense.

Magnus is haunted.

There's no place like this home.

When your family fails its MOT, it's time to look Under the Bonnet.

In the cold nights of the Blitz, her music warmed their hearts.

The war is over but for Lizzie Angel the heartbreak is just beginning.

War changes everything and everyone, but can love survive?

For Peggy, the war opens more than one door.

When tragedy strikes, will she ever find happiness again?

A family united by war.

Voyeurism, taxidermy and a hero for our times.

When James McElroy saw the ad for a lodger with 'Bibi Sanders' in a smart Edinburgh street, he pictured a glamorous young landlady with whom he would form a meaningful and deep relationship.

As a child Nora waged war on her mother, Maisie.

With the scars of World War I still fresh, the Dransfield family face further challenges.

Gillian Traherne and her mother Phoebe lead a remote existence in their grey, stone house on the Welsh borders.

Opening at the Hay Festival, and ending with the prospect of a spring wedding, Sue Gee's novel is a lively story of tangled relationships and the sustaining powers of good books, loyal friends and conversation.

In the aftermath of the First World War, the painter Walter Cox cherishes the place of his childhood to keep the pulse of his art alive.

A sassy and entertaining illustrated debut from Cathy Brett Pyromania: A mental derangement, excitement or excessive enthusiasm for fire.

Escape to the picturesque Devon countryside and rural Hungary with Emylia Hall, the author of The Shell House Detectives, in this enchanting coming-of-age story.

Selected for the Waterstones Eleven list for 2013.

It had all seemed so exciting and romantic.

An 'old friend' changes everything.

Who do you turn to in your time of need?

It's never too late to start over.

When Annie finds out she's pregnant, aged 44, it comes as a bit of a shock - after all, she's been celibate for five years.

War makes heroes of men, but at what price?

Can seeking your fortune lead to happiness?

Emily Barr presents the gripping sequel to the critically acclaimed Backpack.

Glasgow 1961.

This is an utterly charming story about twelve families and their tightly knit street in 1950s Maryhill.

Two sisters torn apart by tragedy.

One woman's struggle to escape a life of abuse, rejection and ultimate betrayal.

Her child has vanished.

To save her child, where can she go?

Can Lucy escape her marriage before it is too late?

Just as life gets back on track, the past turns everything upside down.

This sweeping family saga now moves to the lives and loves of the Cherrells in the early 30s, cousins by marriage to the Forsytes.

Jon Forsyte is back.

Living in their elegant, fashionable house in Westminster, Fleur and Michael Mont mix with and entertain the glittering society characters of the day.

It's 1922 and Fleur Forsyte is now married to Michael Mont.

Soames Forsyte has built a good life for himself with his second wife Annette.

Separated from his wife Irene for some years now, Soames Forsyte has resigned himself to the fact she's never coming back.

Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado.

The Mastermind is back - and he's hot on detective Alex Cross's trail.

Katie Wilkinson has found the perfect man at last - but one day he disappears from her life, leaving behind only a diary for her to read.

In POP GOES THE WEASEL, James Patterson has created a formidable villain every reader will see in the shadows when the lights are out, a tender love story, a plot powered by relentless suspense and psychological thrills kicked up to an all-time high.