Collection: Large Print - Fiction

Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert decide to adopt a strapping young boy from an orphanage intending their new son to work on the farm, but they are mistakenly sent a freckled, flame-haired firecracker called Anne with an irrepressible enthusiasm for life.

Anne, now Mrs Doctor Blythe, is sometimes as impetuous as when she was the girl from Green Gables. But with six lively children and hard-worked Gilbert to look after - not to mention Gilbert's disapproving aunt, Anne has to be practical too.

Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles!

What if Anne Frank survived the Holocaust? The year is 1945, and Anne Frank is sixteen years old. Having survived the concentration camps but lost her mother and sister along the way, she reunites with her father, Pim, in newly liberated Amsterdam. But it's not easy to fit the pieces of their lif...

Anne has become the wife of Dr Gilbert Blythe. She must adjust to married life in the white cottage on the harbor shore.

After a lifetime of putting her daughter first, widowed Annie travels to the beautiful Italian island of Vescovina for a summer. Annie's soon swept up in the magic of the place, but when the town is under threat by developers it's up to Annie and her gorgeous new friend, Giovanni, to save it. But...

In a cruel yet comforting parallel, friends Becky and Kathy have recently both lost their jobs, and face the prospect of starting their lives all over again. Taking up the offer to borrow her elderly uncle's narrowboat, Becky sets sail for the Yorkshire Dales with her son Jonathon, wondering if n...

The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver, he finds work on a farm and meets Jo Anne McDuffy, a college...

In the early years, she was happy. Romilly loved her stunning house, her kind husband and gorgeous daughter. Sure, life was sometimes exhausting - but nothing that a large glass of wine at the end of the day couldn't fix. But then a glass of wine became a bottle; one bottle became two. Once, Romi...

Celia Mulligan is in love with farm hand Andy McCadden, but when Andy asks her to marry him and she accepts, her father is furious - no daughter of his will marry a mere hireling. Celia elopes with Andy and they make their way by ship to England. While on board, Celia meets a demure young woman c...