Generational sagas
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A Long Petal of the Sea
£8.99A Long Petal of the Sea
That September 3, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles’ splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe. Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life – and the fate of his country – forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, the pianist Roser Bruguera, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile. When opportunity to seek refuge in Chile arises, they take it, boarding a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda to the promised ‘long petal of sea and wine and snow’ over the seas. There, they find themselves enmeshed in a rich web of characters who come together in love and tragedy over the course of four generations, destined to witness the battle between freedom and repression as it plays out across the world.
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Beyond summerland
£9.99Beyond summerland
The latest book from New York Times bestselling novelist Jenny Lecoat is set in the aftermath of the liberation of Jersey in June 1945 – a page-turning story of what happens to ordinary people in extraordinary times, when faced with the worst of circumstances and the cruellest of choices.
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Blackwater. I The flood
£9.99Blackwater. I The flood
As the dark and menacing waters of the local river submerge Perdido, a small town in the south of Alabama, the Caskeys – a family of rich landowners – must confront the tide of damage caused by the flood. Led by Mary-Love, the powerful matriarch, and by Oscar, her devoted son, the family must pick itself back up. But what they haven’t anticipated is the sudden appearance of Elinor Dammert – a mysterious but seductive young woman with a troubling past. Her sole ambition appears to be to infiltrate the very heart of the Caskey clan.
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Blackwater. II The levee
£9.99Blackwater. II The levee
Perdido, Alabama, has scarcely recovered from the floods that devasted the community. Now a scheme to build a levee is dogged by a series of mysterious events: unpredictable currents in the river, worrying disappearances. Meanwhile in the Caskey family, Marie-Love, the matriarch, continues her machinations against Elinor, her strange daughter in law. Plots, unholy alliances, sacrifices – in the struggle between them, nothing is off limits. In Perdido, the changes will be profound; the consequences irreversible.
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Heart, be at peace
£16.99Heart, be at peace
Small-town Ireland is a different place, the economy having recovered from the economic crash. Now the work is back, the dramas have all seemingly died down, the dark days of recession and struggle are over. But a new menace is creeping around the lakeshore and the lanes of the town, old grudges are festering and new ones are rising, and the peace of the community is about to be shattered in an unimaginable way. Young people are being drawn towards the promise of fast money whilst the generation above them tries to push back the tide of an enemy none of them can touch.
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Pachinko
£9.99Pachinko
A victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations.
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Rosarita
£12.99Rosarita
From three times Booker-shortlisted writer Anita Desai, Rosarita is an exquisite story of art, memory and what happens when the past threatens to re-write the present.
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Song of the Sun God
£8.99Song of the Sun God
Nala and Rajan, a young couple, begin their married life in 1946, on the eve of Ceylon’s independence from Britain. Arranged in marriage, they learn to love each other and protect their growing family, against the backdrop of increasing ethnic tension. Funny, warm and tender, we see Nala and Rajan’s family navigate war, migration, old loyalties and new beginnings, relying on the philosophy of their religion, their ancestors and each other. As the country descends into a bloody civil war, Nala and Rajan must decide which path is best for their family; and live with the consequences of their mistakes. Over time, Nala and Rajan teach their family why some parts of their history and heritage are worth holding onto; and why some parts and people have to be left behind. ‘Song of the Sun God’ is about the wisdom, mistakes and sacrifices of our past that enable us to live more freely in the future.
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The armour of light
£9.99The armour of light
Taking the reader straight into the heart of late 18th century Europe and the Industrial and French Revolutions, the fifth novel in the ground-breaking Kingsbridge series, The Armour of Light, is No. 1 international bestseller Ken Follett’s most ambitious novel to date. Epic, addictive and page-turning fiction at its very best.
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The map of bones
£22.00The map of bones
Epic and heart-breaking, telling of courageous women battling to survive in a hostile land, The Map of Bones is the final novel in Kate Mosse’s number one bestselling series, The Joubert Family Chronicles.
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The new rector
£9.99The new rector
When Peter Harris arrives in Turnham Malpas as the new rector, he finds the villagers welcoming but set in their ways. Then a gruesome murder points to a killer in their midst. Peter’s role is crucial but he is wrestling with his own private hell.
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The story collector
£9.99The story collector
An evocative and charming novel full of secrets and mystery, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop
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Violeta
£9.99Violeta
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first daughter in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Through her father’s prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the Great Depression transforms the genteel city life she has known. Her family loses all and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. There, she will come of age, and her first suitor will come calling. In a letter to someone she loves above all others, Violeta recounts devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, times of both poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy.
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Wandering stars
£18.99Wandering stars
Following its unforgettable characters through almost two centuries of history, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1865 to the aftermath of a mass shooting in the early 21st century, ‘Wandering Stars’ is an indelible novel of America’s war on its own people. It is also the tender, shattering story of many generations of a Native American family, struggling to find ways through displacement, addiction and pain, towards home and hope.
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