Collection: Large Print - Fiction

'It's not every day a handsome young man appears on your doorstep to ask if you're a respectable womana' Miss Ada Delroy and her famous vaudeville troupe stormed five continents, enchanting royalty, miners and larrikins alike with her wit, illusions, and breathtaking dances. 'I had a diamond pend...

Ester Sharp once dreamed of becoming a doctor or dressmaker. But then her husband spent her small fortune and died young, leaving her penniless and pregnant. Now she lives in the slums, providing for her beloved daughter Polly by taking in mending and running errands. One such task is visiting Ad...

For the Matchmaking Mamas, 1 + 2 = Happily-Ever-After. When widowed rocket scientist Steve Holder needs a housekeeper who can also help with his precocious ten-year-old, The Matchmaking Mamas assign Becky Reynolds. The math whiz turned domestic engineer gently solves the equation of Steve's daugh...

After a failed apprenticeship, working her way up to head housekeeper of a posh London hotel is more than Sara Smythe ever thought she'd make of herself. But when a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the architects of the grand New York apartment house The Dakota, leads to a job offer,...

Greta Jellings blushes and bumbles her way through her carefully ordered existence, forever constrained by what her mother would have said and done. NO EXPECTATION, NO DISAPPOINTMENT was one of her mother's mantras, and it has served Greta well too. But it is the death of her dear friend Walter, ...

Brazos and Benedict are still searching for Bo Rangle, the outlaw who'd killed most of their comrades in the war and stolen a fortune in gold. But the West is a big place, and Rangle could be anywhere.Then they chance upon the best lead they've had in months. The only trouble is that Race Sackett...

People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They've been reading a mysterious book and memorising its directives. They are ready for the reckoning. Adjustment Day, the author's first novel in four years, is an ingeniously comic work in which Chuck Palahniuk does ...

Claire and Matt are no longer together, but decide what's best for their daughter Scarlett is to have a 'normal' family Christmas. They can't agree on who said they should bring their new partners, but it's too late to pull the plug. Claire brings her new boyfriend Patrick, a seemingly sensible e...

An expedition is digging at Lukka Oasis in search of a lost civilisation. But when valuable gold coins are uncovered, the men are massacred by their Arab bearers, and only a woman escapes. When a party of three legionnaires decides to desert from Post D, each has his own good reason for doing so....

A country house at Christmas time should be the perfect place to get away from it all - but nothing is ever simple for Hercule Poirot, who finds a sinister warning on his pillow to avoid the plum pudding. He investigates this and other baffling cases...