Collection: Large Print - Fiction

George Surridge, director of the Birmington Zoo, is a man with many worries. An outbreak of disease threatens the animals in his care. Stuck in a dry and loveless marriage to a high-maintenance woman, and addicted to gambling, he is in a perpetual financial crisis. He's scraped by for years waiti...

After battling a brain tumour, twenty-nine year old Emma thinks she is in the clear, but when her world comes crashing down when she is told there is nothing more the doctors can do, Emma decides to write her perfect life in a story....

Peter Diamond, the Bath detective brilliant at rooting out murder, is peeved at being diverted to Professional Standards to enquire into a police car accident. Arriving late at the scene, he discovers an extra victim thrown onto an embankment - unconscious and unnoticed. Diamond administers CPR, ...

A moving exploration of what happens when three very different people hit crisis point. Karen, Abby and Michael are brought together at Moreland's clinic where they open their hearts, draw comfort from one another and learn to laugh again.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...