Family life fiction

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.

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.

Will she ever uncover the secrets of her past?

One wild night midwife Patty Peel is called to attend a birth on the opposite side of Liverpool.

Addy and Prue Fairweather live with Nell, their widowed mother, in a flat above her shop on the Scotland Road.

Two penn'orth of sky is all you can see from dirty, cramped Nightingale Court where Emmy lives with her widowed mother.

Janie McCleary runs one of the first movie theatres in New Brunswick.

'A rich, revolutionary novel.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Her Frozen Heart.

Marion Bishop's life has fallen apart.

There are some people you'd do anything for.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEPhilip Roth s masterpiece provides a piercing look into the promises of prosperity, civic order and domesticity in twentieth century America Swede Levov is living the American dream.

Mary Margaret Hamilton was educated in Scotland.

A transfixing parable of greed, goodness and an extraordinary miracle from the author of The Woman in Black.

In the bitter cold of Danish Jutland, where the sea freezes over and the Nazis have yet to invade, a young girl dreams of one day going on a great journey to Siberia, while her beloved brother Jesper yearns for the warmer climes of Morocco.

The novel tells the story of Sydney Henderson and his son, Lyle.

Early one morning Arvid finds himself standing outside the bookshop where he used to work, drunk, dirty, with two fractured ribs, and no idea how he came to be there.

If you love Milly Johnson, Trisha Ashley and Catherine Alliott, you'll love Jane Wenham-Jones's deliciously entertaining tale of love, friendship and secrets!

Forgive me, Dorothea, for I cannot forgive you.

'An emotional story about family, love, and freedom' HEAT MAGAZINE'A compelling British-Vietnamese coming-of-age story .

As Arkady Kirsanov returns home after graduation, his father waits patiently for him-excited to see his much-loved son once again.

As Arkady Kirsanov returns home after graduation, his father waits patiently for him-excited to see his much-loved son once again.

In this, her third novel, Kim Izzo renders the last voyage of theLusitaniain such terrifyingly accurate detail that we readers cannot help but feel we too are aboard that doomed shipand in Winston Churchills ultra-secret lair, Room 40as the ineluctable forces of history converge.

'As profound as Katherine Mansfield, restrained as Jane Austen, sharp as Dorothy Parker' IndependentINTRODUCED BY NICOLA BEAUMAN The lark rose in the brilliant air, higher, higher on its spun-glass spiral of song, knowing nothing of peace or war, accepting joyously the bounty of another day.

FIREBRAND IS NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ALICIA VIKANDER AND JUDE LAWFor fans of Wolf Hall and the BBC's The White QueenDive into Elizabeth Fremantle's vivid Tudor England and meet the woman who survived Henry VIII---My name is Katherine Parr.

The perfect pick-me-up from bestseller Jane Lovering.

'I FINISHED THIS WONDERFUL BOOK IN FLOODS OF TEARS' JESSIE BURTON'SUCH A PLEASURE' CLARE CHAMBERS'WITTY AND INSIGHTFUL' BONNIE GARMUSAt fifty-seven, Julia Ames finds herself with an improbably lovely life.