Collection: Large Print - Fiction

1911: Inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors, where men and women are kept apart by high walls and barred windows, there is a ballroom vast and beautiful. For one bright evening every week they come together and dance. When John and Ella meet it is a dance that will change two lives ...

Lieutenant Willy Fraser has chosen the most dangerous job on the Western Front - a balloon observer, anchored by a slender cable. After being swept across enemy lines after his balloon is damaged, Willy mangers to return home...

Alan West is returning to his dying grandfather's home. Cecil West wants Alan to track down his own father, so he can make his peace with him. A story about family ties and the wounds that can linger for generations when those relationships are betrayed.

On the Alps, two schoolteachers discover a gruesome sight - the corpse of a murdered man. How the corpse came to be there is the story of Rex Buchanan and his wife Paula. Rex, a pulp fiction author, comes home one day eager to tell Paula about a fantastic plot for his next novel, THE BALLAD OF TH...

A tender, heartwarming and utterly appealing novel about the power of community, love, loss and second chances. Jack McPhail is a man on the run from his past, a drifter who lands by accident in a sleepy outback Australian town called Banjo Crossing. Jack - almost despite himself - becomes slowly...

Susie Moran has founded and run her own highly profitable company, and now her three daughters are involved too. And then, into the mix arrives Susie's father, an ageing hippy who abandoned her as a baby. Now he's alone, and wants to build bridges...

In 1938, eighteen-year-old Phyllis Elsworth packs her bags, says goodbye to her anxious parents and sets off from her quiet seaside home for the Hackney Hospital in London's bustling East End, where she is to fulfil her dreams to train as a nurse. At first, it is a whirlwind of long days, hard wo...

When dashing Irish sea captain and part-time gunrunner Rian Farrell spontaneously buys the deed to a claim at Ballarat, where reef gold has recently been discovered underground, his wife Kitty is dismayed. Not only is mining dangerous work for the crew, who are seamen rather than labourers, but t...

When Josephine becomes pregnant with Rashid's son she is sent home. With a Filipino face, a Kuwaiti passport, an Arab surname and a Christian first name, when he is 18,will his father's country welcome him?

On Christmas morning, in the unforgiving harshness of a convent in Galway, Kitty Doherty gives birth to a baby, who is immediately taken away for adoption in America. But Kitty's life is hanging by a thread, her only hope a dangerous journey through the ice and snow to Ballymara and her Irish fam...