Collection: Large Print - Fiction

Arsene Lupin is a gentleman thief, and this first book from the pen of Maurice Leblanc introduces us to this wonderful character's first adventure. Written many years ago, this exciting crime romp is still fantastic fun today.

LeBlanc's creation, gentleman thief Arsene Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat -- witty, charming, brilliant, sly . . . and possibly the greatest thief in the world. In this classic tale, Lupin comes up against the only man who may be able to stop him . . . no less than...

London, 1918. Fiona Figg finds herself back in Old Blighty saddled with shuffling papers for the war office. Then a mysterious card arrives, inviting her to a fancy house party at Mentmore Castle. This year's Ascot-themed do will play host to a stable of animal defense advocates, and Fiona is tas...

1990: thirteen works of art worth over 500 million dollars were stolen from the Gardner Museum in Boston. It's the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a young artist, searches for the truth which leads her into a labyrinth of deceit.

Joan has checked into the grand old Duchess Hotel to find herself again after thirty-five years of being who her husband and family have wanted her to be. Frances is distracting herself from getting old by escaping to the Duchess where the staff treat her like the person she still is. Meanwhile,...

In 1966, cookery writer Kathleen Eaden published The Art of Baking. Now, five amateur bakers are competing to become the New Mrs Eaden. As unlikely alliances are forged and secrets rise to the surface, cooking seems the least of the contestants problems.

Antiques dealer Kate Hamilton is spending the month of May in the Suffolk village of Long Barston with Detective Inspector Tom Mallory. While attending the May Fair, the annual pageant based on a well-known Anglo-Saxon folktale, a body turns up in the middle of the festivities. Kate is even more ...

Hazel Crick is furious when her entry for the Town Art Show is rejected. Convinced her colleague Jon Hunter is responsible, she accuses him of vetoing her painting out of spite. Later that day, she waits beside Jon's car to apologise. But this puts her in the wrong place at the wrong time - she i...

Ballarat, 1905. The gossips call 19-year-old Edie Cottingham the 'Too Girl' - too stubborn, too outspoken, and too modern to get a husband. But Edie does not care. She is determined to defy them all and find love with Theo Hooley, the gentle church organist and veteran of the African Boer war. Bu...

Professor Lila Maclean is set to interview celebrated author and notorious cad Damon Von Tussel, but he disappears. Strange warnings, missing items and dangerous incidents threaten Stonedale's guests. The chancellor makes it clear that he expects Lila to locate the missing writer and set events b...