Collection: Large Print - Fiction

Cairo, Egypt, 1913. When schoolgirl Marie Kewfik is kidnapped, snatched away as she strolled through the bustling bazaars of the Souk, the Khedive insists that the Mamur Zapt, Head of the Secret Police, takes charge of the negotiations for her safe return. The Kewfiks are one of the wealthiest an...

When Tartelin Brown accepts a job as a PA to a reclusive lepidopterist, she finds herself on a wild island with a mysterious history. Tartelin has been employed by Marianne Stourbridge to hunt for butterflies, but she quickly uncovers something far more intriguing. The island and Marianne share a...

1774. Gently bred noblewoman Adrienne Lafayette must renounce the complicated man she loves, or risk her life for a legacy that will inspire generations to come. 1914. Glittering New York socialite Beatrice Chanler witnesses the devastation of the war in France firsthand, and must convince Americ...

1889: Mrs Hudson, long-suffering landlady of 221b Baker Street, falls ill and collapses in her home, and is whisked off by Dr Watson to St Bartholomew's Hospital. Perhaps she has developed an overactive imagination thanks to her eccentric lodgers, but it seems she is surrounded by patients who al...

Coming to terms with the shocking events, survivors from the Titanic form new attachments, make decisions with tragic consequences. How can life ever be the same again when you have heard 1,500 people dying in the water around you?

It would be the journey of a lifetime. ‘Women can be heroes, too’. When 20-year-old nursing student, Frances 'Frankie' McGrath, hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California’s idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself...

As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935, Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content working for her father. When her husband falls gravely ill, Frankie's mother takes over, causing serious trouble for her daughter. Jericho Harte has never met a woman he wanted to marry until he ...

Sarah Courtney has lived with her aunt and uncle, a prosperous merchant, since her father died a year ago. When the handsome and wealthy Ross Balfour catches her eye, she has no expectation of marrying him - until they accidentally fall into a compromising situation, and he offers for her hand to...

Mma Ramotswe is persuaded to take a holiday from the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency. But she finds it impossible to resist the temptation to follow the cases taken on by her business partner, Mma Makutsi, and to interfere in them...

Stella is involved in a car crash that changes her life. She ends up thousands of miles from her old life, turning in to a superstar, wrenching her whole family apart. But for the first time, happiness is just within her reach. Is she ready to grasp it?