| FORSYTESAGA | The --- ---, series of novels by John Galsworthy chronicling the lives of a British family (7,4) |
| MUM | Member of a British family |
| SAGA | What word links an old Bill Tidy comic strip with a series of novels by John Galsworthy? (4) |
| POWELL | Author of Dance To The Music Of Time, a 12-novel sequence chronicling the lives of around 300 characters (6) |
| WILBUR | ____ Smith, Zambian-born author noted for his novels chronicling the lives of the Courtney family (6) |
| TRIPODS | The -; series of novels for young adults by John Christopher that was adapted into a television series in the 1980s (7) |
| COMETHTHEHOUR | 2016 bestseller by 15-Across about a time of reckoning for a British family: 3 wds. |
| IDENTITY | The Bourne ___: first of the series of novels/films featuring Jason Bourne. (8) |
| MONTGOMERY | L. M. ___, Canadian author best known for the series of novels beginning with 1908's Anne of Green Gables (10) |
| THECRUELSEA | 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat following the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II |
| PENCILSDOWN | Wittily named 2014 documentary chronicling the most recent Writers Guild strike, in 2007-08 |
| ROMANFLEUVE | Work(s) of fiction chronicling a family across successive generations; French, 'stream novel' (5-6) |
| IRENE | The Forsyte Saga detailed the lives of a family from 1879 until the 1920s and starred Kenneth More a |
| SUSAN | The Forsyte Saga detailed the lives of a family from 1879 until the 1920s and starred Kenneth More a |
| JOLYON | The Forsyte Saga detailed the lives of a family from 1879 until the 1920s and starred Kenneth More a |
| ONDAATJE | Author of a novel centred around the lives of a nurse, a sapper, a thief and eponymous "English" patient (8) |
| SOAPOPERA | Popular drama series on radio or TV about the lives of a group of people living in a particular place (4,5) |
| REGISTERING | Chronicling |
| CALENDARING | Chronicling |
| LUCY | Name of the youngest of the four Pevensie siblings in C S Lewis's books chronicling the land of Narnia (4) |
