Robertson: 1274 books

When middle class Cathy falls in love with working class Joseph, a soldier, she dare not tell her family, who want her to marry into the wealthy Callingham family. Class and the war loom between them and happiness. When Joseph is killed in France and Cathy discovers she is pregnant, she has little...

As single mum Fran embarks on her new career tragedy strikes. Can love grow out of heartbreak? Two women must find out for themselves.

This mystery novel looks at the city of New Orleans through the eyes of a seasoned tourist and explores music both as a means of salvation and a road to obsession. An impulsive act of theft coincides with an inexplicable death in the suburbs of Chicago. A long drive south to Louisiana follows the...

In a town surrounded by deadly mist, and filled with oddities, two young siblings become orphans. And that's the best thing that's happened to them all day. Howard Howard was a Wrecker (a brute and bully by profession) who was brutal and bullish to his children - Aubrey and Aubrey's...

By the latter half of the third decade of the twenty-first century AD, ten years after the Paris Agreement on climate change, humankind has begun to make meaningful progress in curtailing its greenhouse gas emissions. Will it be enough to hold global warming to the agreed limit of 2.0 degrees Celsius,...

It is 1939 and the threat of war looms ever closer as Hitler unleashes terror across Europe. In the Durham mining village of Belgate, the inhabitants brace themselves for the conflict ahead. As the war deepens, the people of Belgate are swept up in a struggle for survival that will eclipse personal differences and draw rich and poor together.

As London licks its wounds in the immediate aftermath of war, four orphaned sisters must learn not only how to survive but how to succeed. Life will take them from a London tenement to the four corners of the UK and beyond but wherever they are, in Paris nightspots or rural Scotland, in the corridors...

Peace may have come to Britain, but for Frank Maguire, miner and union leader, his wife Anne and their family, poverty and rationing are still making life hard. To add to Anne's sorrow, her daughter has married a GI, and is taking Anne's grandchild to the United States, leaving her with a grieving heart and a guilty secret.

As World War II ends, four young women who met in service and became close friends leave to return to their former lives. The war has changed each of them and brought some of them great personal loss, and none of them can possibly know what the future will hold.

On the face of it Ben Webster has it all, wealth, health, a beautiful wife and a thriving business. In fact, his wife is unfaithful and predators are circling the profitable firm that he heads.  And then his beloved grandmother summons him. She tells him that the family business was built on...

As sunlight breaks into the first-floor flat at No. 13 Grimshaw Street, Julie Baxter. forever bright and irrepressible, gets ready for the mad merry-go-round of the day ahead. A single mum, she has plenty to keep her occupied and there are always the other tenants in the house to sort out.  ...

Returning home for a family wedding after a romantic break in Paris with partner, Leigh, Rachel is looking forward to spending time with her family. But the minute she walks through the door she senses tension in the air – tension she recognises only too well. This is not the first affair her father...

Sara certainly seems to have it all - looks, charm, brains and, to make matters worse, the only man whom Lexy, an awkward teenager, knows she can ever love. Faced with an impossible dilemma, Lexy feels she has no choice but to leave forever and start a new life - until years later, tragedy and danger...

Sophie Baxter appears to have everything she could wish for. She is a young woman of the 90s. But when she becomes compelled to make decisions about her own life, she consults both her mother and grandmother and begins to question the legacy of freedom won for her by previous generations.