Collection: Large Print - Fiction

Chicago, sometime. Two people meet in the armoury of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. Aft...

Dick Lazarus and his gang are feared on both sides of the Rio Grande. Lazarus's increasingly daring crimes see him raid the ranchero of the Robles family in Mexico, stealing a herd of horses and taking a hostage - Luis Robles - who should fetch a hefty ransom. Dan Calloway, owner of the stolen he...

When their plane is shot down, and to avoid capture while on a secret mission over Germany, two British pilots jump on a train and end up in a mental hospital where German doctors subject their patients to daily rounds of shock treatments and drugs.

Emma and her staff are treading very lightly for the paper's House & Home editor, is refusing to speak to her colleagues, or even her boss. Then a young woman walks in claiming her parents have been murdered, and that she's in mortal danger, too...

A summer of endless rain in the Peak District leaves the officers of Derbyshire's CID with a problem. They have discovered a man's body lying in shallow water, but torrential rain has made travel difficult and forensic examination impossible.

When Cherry Hawthorn is told her image isn't right to promote the television show she invented, she decides to have a makeover. Thrilled when her dishy boss Alan Jenkins not only approves, but also promises to take the new her on a date, she sets off to Sea View Spa. There, she meets the friendly...

It started with a letter. It ended with a love story. Every December, Josie posts a letter from her home in London to the parents she lost on Christmas many years ago. But this year, her annual trip to the post-box is knocked off course by a bicycle collision with a stranger who will change the c...

After being held in a camp during the war, Brenda Stuart returns to her late husband's stately home in the Pennines, to be reunited with her young son. A factory-worker's daughter from Manchester, Brenda doesn't belong in such wealthy surroundings - which her father-in-law never lets her forget. ...

1939. When war is declared, thirteen-year-old twins, Shirley and Tom are evacuated to the coastal town of Worthing. Shirley is the bright one of the pair, whereas Tom is sometimes slow to understand the world around him. But Shirley helps him get by and is his best friend and ally. The twins are ...

"Left unable to walk by a childhood illness, Lady Jennifer, sister of the Duke of Wilby, has grown up to make a happy place for herself in society. Outgoing and cheerful, she has many friends and enjoys the pleasures of high society--even if she cannot dance at balls or stroll in Hyde Park...But ...