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Dominic Smith
A captivating and moving new novel from the international bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos.
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Bram Presser
An extraordinary and absorbing novelisation of one family’s tale of Holocaust survival and a grandson’s unrelenting dedication to ensuring his ancestor’s stories will never be forgotten, is now available in…
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Lucy Neave
An unforgettable and profound novel about three generations of one family and the healing power of understanding where you’ve come from.
Que Mai Nguyen Phan
An intimate, stirring portrait of a country at war and a family’s battle to survive
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George Eliot
Features Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; and the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose…
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Leila Slimani
The first volume of a new trilogy telling the saga of one French family between 1946 and 2016.
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Brit Bennett
A powerful new novel about the parallel lives of estranged twin sisters who choose to live in two very different worlds - one black and one white.
Rachel Beanland
Based on a true story and told in the vein of J. Courtney Sullivan’s Saints for All Occasions and Anita Diamant’s The Boston Girl, Beanland’s family saga is a breathtaking…
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Nardi Simpson
A captivating Australian saga from the winner of the 2018 black&write! fellowship.
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Ann Patchett
Told with Ann Patchett’s inimitable blend of wit and heartbreak, The Dutch House is a story of family, betrayal, love, responsibility and sacrifice; of the powerful bonds of place and…
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Nino Haratischvili
At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian Empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed down the generations…
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Colson Whitehead
From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.
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Andrew Pippos
An exuberant, magical Australian saga of family, love and second chances.
Zadie Smith
Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of…
Min Jin Lee
A victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations.
Jhumpa Lahiri
“The Namesake’ is the story of a boy brought up Indian in America.
Mr John Steinbeck
Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this title follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact…
Jonathan Franzen
From the author of ‘Freedom’, a richly realistic and darkly hilarious masterpiece about a family breakdown in an age of easy fixes.
For use in schools and libraries only. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how a chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved.
Rajith Savanadasa
In the bustling streets, overcrowded hospitals and glittering nightclubs of Colombo, five family members find their bonds stretched to breaking point in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war.
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John Boyne
‘By turns savvy, witty and achingly sad, this is a novelist at the top of his game.’ Mail on SundayForced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin…
Barbara Kingsolver
A testament to the power and goodness of the human spirit, Unsheltered explores the foundations we build, crossing time and place to give us all a little more hope in…
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Jeffrey Eugenides
‘I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near…
Anne Tyler
The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. From that porch we spool back through the generations…
Colleen McCullough
The bestselling Australian novel of all time, Thorn Birds is the sweeping saga of three generations of the Cleary family.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This magical realist novel tells the history of the Buendias family, the founders of Macondo, a remote South American settlement. In the world of the novel there is a Spanish…
Isabel Allende
As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her…
Yaa Gyasi
Two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader’s wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow.
