Following the Caldwell saga, set in 1940's Bristol.
Domestic fiction
- Author:SUMMERS, RowenaSummary:
- Author:Tasmina PerrySummary:
Serena, Cate, Camilla and Venetia have grown up in a world where money can buy you anything. But as the old saying goes, it can't buy you love, and it certainly didn't buy them their father's. Oswald Balcon revelled in...
- Author:DELDERFIELD, R. FSummary:
A young Welsh clerk arrives at the seaside town of Penmadoc to work in the local bank. Shortly afterwards he finds himself in love with two very different women and involved in an unlikely bank robbery.
- Author:Maron, MargaretSummary:
Judge Deborah Knott is faced with a horrifying holiday murder case. After a beautiful young cheerleader is found dead in a car wreck, Judge Knott's husband Deputy Dwight Bryant discovers evidence that the death was anything but an...
- Author:ROBERTS, NoraSummary:
The early years of Seth's life had been a prison of fear, abuse and neglect. Now a successful artist, Seth returns to Chesapeake Bay to the only real family he has ever known.
- Author:TROLLOPE, JoannaSummary:
Where do we come from? Where do we belong? For David and Nathalie, this need to know is more urgent than for most people, because they are adopted. Born to different mothers, brought up by the same parents, they have grown up as...
- Author:Barclay, TessaSummary:
Jenny Corvill is determined to relinquish the reins the prosperous waterside mill in Galashiels to her new husband Ronald Armstrong and enjoy life as a young bride. But soon her plans begin to be disrupted by her frivolous sister-in-law...
- Author:SHAW, IrwinSummary:
A wealthy man is rescued from muggers by a group of teenagers. As time goes by, the group struggles for survival against the overwhelming efforts of their benefactor to, as he sees it, assist them.
- Author:Rice, LuanneSummary:
Restauranteur Cass and her fisherman husband Billy have a passionate marriage, filled with steamy sex in semipublic places. But the strain of raising a hearing-impaired daughter is wearing their love thin. When disaster at sea strikes,...
- Author:LYNCH, Sarah-KateSummary:
Blessed are Corrie and Fee, for theirs is the kingdom of the world's tastiest cheese. Tucked away in rural Ireland, the lifelong friends have their peace disturbed by the emotional traumas of Corrie's graddaughter Abbey and...
- Author:NUNN, JudySummary:
In 1788, Thomas Kendall, a naive 19-year-old sentenced to transportation for burglary, finds himself bound for Sydney Town in the penal colony of New South Wales. An honest man at heart, seizes a second chance at life beneath the...
- Author:GRAHAM, WinstonSummary:
Continues the story of Valentine Warleggan, the wayward, perverse son of George, and of Bella, the Poldark's youngest daughter and Clowance, the Poldarks' widowed daughter and of a murderer who lurks in the villages of west...
- Author:Trollope, AnthonySummary:
This sequel to The Warden satirizes the struggle for ascendancy among the clergy of a cathedral city. The contest is between the outgoing church authorities led by Archdeacon Grantly and the newcomers led by Mrs. Proudie and her protégé...
- Author:GRACE, PatriciaSummary:
Tawera and his sister are inseparable, in a relationship that is impossible for others to share. In fact his whole whanau is bonded by secrets, a genealogy stitched together by shame, joy, love and sometimes grief. Patricia Grace's...
- Author:BRADFORD, Barbara TaylorSummary:
In 1905, Emma Hart is sixteen, single and pregnant. By 1968, she is one of the richest women in the world, ruler of a business empire stretching from Yorkshire to America and Australia. Emma is a woman of substance-but what is the...
- Author:ANDREWS, LynSummary:
For Mary Callaghan, marriage has brought heartaches and disappointment. What Mary wants most for her daughters is what she never had - a husband who will offer the security her own hard-drinking, free-spending, brash-talking Jack denied...
- Author:MITCHARD, JacquelynSummary:
Portrays the tenuous threads that connect modern families. Gordon McKenna's beloved sister and her husband are tragically killed in a car accident, leaving behind their one-year-old child.
- Author:Josephine CoxSummary:
Young Cathy Blackthorn has never experienced any loving response from her mother. When Cathy's father brings home a London street urchin and announces this will be the son he and Rita have never had, Cathy despairs of ever winning...
- Author:Streeter Aldrich, BessSummary:
Abbie Deal was born in Iowa during the 1800's. This novel tells how she moved to Nebraska as a bride and struggled with hardship and poverty to help her husband raise a family and provide for them.
- Author:Dohaney, Myrtis T.Summary:
A Fit Month for Dying is the third book in M.T. Dohaney's highly praised trilogy about the women of Newfoundland's outports. Fans of The Corrigan Women and To Scatter Stones will embrace this new book, while those reading the...