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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Sagas
Spellbinding and suspenseful, Jeffrey Archer delivers thrills like
no other author in The Prodigal Daughter. A magnificent story of
love and politics, a No. 1 worldwide bestseller and the enthralling
sequel to the multimillion-selling global phenomenon Kane and Abel.
With a will of steel, Florentyna Rosnovski is indeed Abel's
daughter. Inheriting all of her father's drive but none of his
wealth, she is in pursuit of an ambition that far exceeds either
her father or his great rival William Kane - to be the first female
president. Born into a life of luxury, Richard Kane is determined
to carve his own path in the world whilst building a future with
Florentyna, the woman he loves. With Florentyna's ultimate goal
only a heartbeat away, both are about to discover the shattering
price of power as a titanic battle of betrayal and deception
reaches out from the past - a blood feud between two generations
that threatens to destroy everything they have fought to achieve.
'If there were a Nobel Prize for storytelling, Archer would win' -
The Daily Telegraph
It's the most wonderful time of the year... to fall in love Coming
home for Christmas Returning to her home town of Wishing Tree is
definitely temporary for Camryn. She can't wait to leave and get
back to her 'real life'. Until she meets Jake. Suddenly Camryn
starts to see the town, and it's Christmas traditions, differently.
She thought she'd put her future on hold...but maybe her real life
was here all along, waiting for her to come home. New in town,
River is charmed by Wishing Tree's Christmas traditions and
warm-hearted people, especially Dylan Tucker whose snow melting
kisses bring her to the brink of love. But Dylan has a secret and
River can't risk falling for him until she uncovers it, even if
that means losing him forever. Both women find themselves faced
with difficult decisions. But if they are prepared to risk their
hearts, they might find they are about to have a Christmas to
remember... The new festive romance from the international
bestselling author of The Christmas Wedding Guest Readers LOVE
Susan Mallery's Wishing Tree 'The setting of Wishing Tree was
great, so festive and Christmassy. I loved all the traditions, and
the B&B.' 'Two love stories in one set in the town of Wishing
Tree. Two sisters find love during the holidays while enjoying the
quirkiness of a great small town. Belle and Burt( fur babies) steal
many a scene!' 'Grab a blanket and a hot chocolate and snuggle down
for the most delightful Christmas romantic comedy. So uplifting and
loads of feel good moments it's like having a hug in a book. I
loved this book.' 'Such a beautiful, heart warming romance...A
truly lovely festive read.' 'A lovely heart warming story perfect
for a cosy autumn/ winter night in. Susan Mallery is quickly
becoming a go to author for me.' 'This truly heart-warming tale has
everything you want from a Christmas story! Love, friendship and
more!' 'Just the perfect read at Christmas.'
She's the best wife... ...he never wanted!
Don't miss the sixth and final book in the heartwarming six-part
series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court!
Dolly's dreams could lead her astray . . . Dolly Blanchard dreams
of a bigger life. She wants to make a mark on the world, not simply
wait for a husband to come along. So when an impoverished actress
offers her a lifeline, Dolly flees to London, determined to make it
on the stage and prove to her family - and herself - that she can
strike out alone. But the dark city streets are full of danger.
With her dreams fading to dust, Dolly soon finds herself in peril.
And with the family's future under threat at Rockwood Castle, and
secrets tumbling out of the shadows, she faces a difficult choice.
Will her heart call her home? Dilly's novel Sunday's Child hit #1
in the Sunday Times bestselling charts the w/e 25th June 2022.
The next heartwarming instalment of the Timber Girls Series.
Perfect for fans of Elaine Everest and Pam Howes. Trixie and her
fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland, newly stationed at the
MacKay estate. When they arrive, they are shocked to find the place
dilapidated and neglected and the taciturn and secretive Noah
MacKay not at all happy to be meeting them. It quickly becomes
apparent that MacKay was expecting men from the forestry commission
to take charge, rather than four young women. Trixie, Jo, Hen and
Vi decide he needs to be proven wrong - after all, don't they have
stamina, skill and strength? But as the girls work to prove their
worth, secrets from their own pasts threaten to follow them to
Sutherland.
1950s Liverpool. In the tight-knit Irish Catholic community of the
Four Streets, two girls are growing up. One is motherless - and
hated by the cold woman who is determined to take her dead mother's
place. The other is hiding a dreadful secret which she dare not let
slip to anyone, lest it rips the heart out of the community. What
can the people of the Four Streets do when a betrayal at the very
heart of their world comes to light?
Escape to the French chateau in this gripping, sweeping tale of
love, lies and divided loyalties. Perfect for fans of Santa
Montefiore and Lucinda Riley.
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ONE FAMILY GENERATIONS OF SECRETS IT'S TIME TO ESCAPE TO THE
CHATEAU . . . Elise is a true daughter of the chateau. She'd die
before anything happened to Sainte Madeleine - even if it means
betraying her own family. Alexandre, Elise's brother, is destined
to inherit - yet a dangerous rift with their father puts his
future, and the chateau, in jeopardy. And for distant cousin
Laurent, his life-long love for Elise will always call him back to
Sainte Madeleine. But the peace of Europe rests on a knife-edge,
and history has bigger plans than them all. Through love and war,
danger and deceit, can the chateau - and the Salignac family -
weather the storm? Readers are getting swept away by Sainte
Madeleine: 'It is perfect escapism' Netgalley reviewer 'A beautiful
love story that captures your attention and your heart from
beginning to end' Netgalley reviewer 'Everything from sensitivity
to heartache as well as a great story' Netgalley reviewer 'A
definite feel of Gone with the Wind' Netgalley reviewer 'Lovers of
romance and wine will be enraptured by the story' Netgalley
reviewer 'Tilly Bagshawe has weaved a larger than life family saga
set in the most gorgeous setting possible' Netgalley reviewer
For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Kate Furnivall comes a gritty tale of courage, betrayal and love in the most unlikely of places. (Also published as The German Midwife).
Germany, 1944. Taken from the camps to serve the Führer himself, Anke Hoff is assigned as midwife to one of Hitler’s inner circle. If she refuses, her family will die.
Torn between her duty as a caregiver and her hatred for the Nazi regime, Anke is swept into a life unlike anything she’s ever known – and she discovers that many of those at the Berghof are just as trapped as she is. And soon, she’s falling for a man who will make her world more complicated still…
Before long, the couple is faced with an impossible choice – and the consequences could be deadly. Can their forbidden love survive the horrors of war? And, more importantly, will they?
Meg just wants her family to be together at Christmas. But her
mother's illness gets worse every day and her sister is off doing
god knows what. So when Meg loses her job in the bakery she doesn't
know how they'll cope. Luckily, she knows Frank, the owner of a
local patisserie, who offers her a job. But Meg isn't suited for
fancy cake and frills. All she wants is to feed her family and make
them proud but, as winter takes hold, it feels like everything is
stacked against her. Can she make a success of herself before
Christmas?
'A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising
hope' Ocean Vuong 'Heartbreaking ... a deeply affecting reckoning
with history' i-D An extraordinary, original and heartbreaking
debut novel about the bonds that connect people even when separated
by seas or death itself, from a thrilling new voice. There are the
goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies - everything in
between is speculation. One night, not long after the last American
troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh and Minh flee their
village and embark on a perilous boat journey to Hong Kong. Their
parents and four younger siblings make the crossing in another
vessel but as weeks go by it becomes clear that only one party has
survived the voyage. Anh, Thanh and Minh suddenly find themselves
alone in the world, without family or home. They travel on,
navigating refugee camps and resettlement centres until, by a twist
of fate, they arrive in Thatcher's Britain. Here they must somehow
build new lives with only each other to turn to, but will that be
enough in a place that doesn't seem to want them? In this piercing
debut, the siblings' faltering journey is deftly interwoven with
the voice of their lost younger brother, Dao, following them from a
place between the living and the dead, and the records of an
unknown researcher intent on gathering together the strands of
their story. Revelatory and inventive, Wandering Souls paints a
heart-wrenching portrait of a family in unimaginable adversity
while exploring the power of stories to heal generational wounds.
It heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in fiction.
'Meticulously researched and beautifully imagined' Tash Aw, author
of We, the Survivors 'Tells one of the most important stories of
our times' Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days 'Deeply moving and
deeply generous... I cried reading it' Yara Rodrigues Fowler,
author of there are more things 'A searing, sweeping and intimate
story of such heart and scope' Rachel Long, author of My Darling
from the Lions
Don't miss the fourth book in the heartwarming six-part series from
the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court! Left on the
steps of an orphanage when she was just days old, Nancy Sunday was
brought up in hardship - until the kindly Rosalind Carey took her
in. Now eighteen years old, Nancy is an adopted member of the Carey
family. But she can't help wondering who her parents really were...
When Nancy is sent away to finishing school, she finds herself in
the midst of London society. There she meets Freddie Ashton - kind
and warm-hearted, he might just be the man of Nancy's dreams. But
she knows his wealthy parents would never let him marry a penniless
foundling. And she has also caught the eye of another man - the
charming and dangerous Gervase North, who has reasons of his own
for discovering Nancy's parentage. Will Nancy ever find where she
truly belongs?
From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015)
comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old
Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven
generations of a single legendary heroic family and comprise our
best source of traditional lore about its members-including, among
others, the dragon-slayer Sigurd, Brynhild the Valkyrie, and the
Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok.
The Patchwork Girls by Elaine Everest is a moving story about the
ties of friends and family, set during the turbulence of the Second
World War. 1939. After the sudden and tragic loss of her husband,
Helen is returning home to her mother's house in Biggin Hill, Kent
- the one place she vowed she'd never go back to again. Alone and
not knowing where to turn, Helen finds herself joining the local
women's sewing circle despite being hopeless with a needle and
thread. These resourceful women can not only make do and mend
clothes, quilts and woolly hats, but their friendship mends
something deeper in Helen too. Lizzie is a natural leader, always
ready to lend a helping hand or a listening ear. Effie has uprooted
her life from London to keep her two little girls away from the
bombing raids, and the sewing circle is a welcome distraction from
worries about how to keep a roof over their heads and about her
husband too, now serving in active duty overseas. When the reason
for Helen's husband's death comes to light, her world is turned
upside down yet again. The investigating officer on the case,
Richard, will leave no stone unturned, but it's not long before his
interest in Helen goes beyond the professional. As she pieces
together old fabrics into a beautiful quilt, will Helen patch up
the rifts in her own life?
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The fourth heartwarming instalment in the Cornish Girls series,
coming soon - pre-order now! Can the bonds of motherhood give them
the strength they'll need to get through the war? St Ives, Spring
1943. After having given up her baby at seventeen, Sonya is
inspired by her work at an orphanage to discover what happened to
her daughter twenty-five years ago. Reunited, they struggle to bond
whilst braving the war together. Nurse Lily has returned to St Ives
to finish training as a midwife. But when old flame Tristan is
brought in wounded, she must put the past firmly to bed in order to
care for him. And working at Tristan's convalescent home, Mary
longs for the romance she reads of in her novels. But her
overprotective mother is making that more difficult at every
turn... In times of war, the Cornish Girls can rely on one another
to make it through. But can they lean on the bonds of motherhood
for support too? A heart-warming tale of motherhood in wartime, for
fans of Nancy Revell and Donna Douglas. Readers have been swept
away by the Cornish Girls:
'Romance...friendship...orphans...family...women helping in any way
they can...Don't miss this book' Reader Review 'A lovely historical
war story. Can't wait to read what happens next in this saga...'
Reader Review 'How nice it was to catch up with [the Cornish
Girls]. I so hope [they] continue with their antics...' Reader
Review 'Plenty of twists and turns, well written, likeable
characters and easy to follow. I'm already looking forward to the
next in the series...' Reader Review 'A great read - highly
recommended' Reader Review 'A lovely five star read! I look forward
to the next one!' Reader Review 'Much loved characters that will
stay with you, due to their courage, determination and patriotic
spirit - five stars from me' Reader Review
A convenient marriage Could save them both... Battle-weary Viking
Lord Hafual plans to tend his lands, raise his son and recover from
the traumatic death of his wife. So nobody is more surprised than
him when his neighbour, Lady Elene, publicly announces their
intention to wed! Learning the danger Elene faces if he refuses
stirs feelings of protectiveness, and a longing in Hafual he'd
long-since buried. So, for better or worse, he'll make Elene his
bride...
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