Collection: Large Print - Fiction

It’s the 1960s, and the air is electric. On the cusp of adulthood, two biracial siblings – their father is Moroccan, their mother French – search for their place in a newly independent Morocco brimming with both possibility and peril. Aicha, strong-willed and strait-laced, aspires to become a doc...

Forensic investigator Reilly Steel is in Florida for a holiday. But she's drawn into a local investigation where the body of a woman has been torn in two. When another killing occurs, Reilly feels that she has come across something like this before.

You're back home after four years working abroad with a brand new husband in tow. You're keen to find a place of your own. But for now, you're living with your big brother, camped out in his spare bedroom. And then, quite unexpectedly, you meet the man next door. He's the head teacher of the loca...

London, 1883: Thaniel Steepleton returns to his tiny flat to find a mysterious gold pocket watch on his pillow. When the watch saves his life from a bomb blast that destroys Scotland Yard, Thaniel goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori - a kind, lonely immigrant who sweeps him into a new world o...

A city in turmoil. A deadly conspiracy. A race against time... Looming over the Manhattan skyline, a lone crane comes crashing down onto the city, sending panic radiating across New York. The NYPD believes a political group is behind the sabotage, and turns to Lincoln Rhyme for help. He knows th...

Imagine a world very close to our own: where women are not safe in their bodies, and where desperate measures are required to raise a daughter. Grace, Lia and Sky live in almost complete isolation on a remote beach with their parents, kept apart from the rest of society for their own good, and ta...

It is 1942, and after a tough childhood in Birmingham, Maryann Bartholomew has built a happy life with her husband and children working the canals on a narrowboat. But hard work and constant child bearing take their toll, and the death of a friend and another pregnancy lead her to a desperate and...

Wakefield 1870. On the banks of the River Calder, Meg Taylor struggles to care for her younger siblings and sick mother whilst her father is away working as a boatman on the canals. The slums where they live are rife with disease, and Meg longs for a different life, away from the grinding poverty...

In The Waters of Eternal Youth, the twenty-fifth instalment in the bestselling Brunetti series, our Commissario finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a crime at all. Brunetti is investigating a cold case by request of the grand Contessa Lando-Continui, a friend of Brunetti's mother-in-l...

On an early morning run Ex-Met officer John Cannon becomes ensnarled in a discarded fishing-line. The macabre discovery leads him into a search for a missing au pair, conflict with the police and involvement with international crime.