Collection: Large Print - Fiction

It is 1953 and five very different girls are arriving at the nurses' home in Lovely Lane, Liverpool, to start their training at St Angelus Hospital. Dana has escaped from her family farm on the west coast of Ireland. Victoria is running away from a debt-ridden aristocratic background. Beth is an ...

The legend of Billy Bascom is born the day they plant the cross that reads: 'Here lie Ben Ober and Jim Boone, hanged for cattle rustling, May 14, 1880'. There should be a third name on that board: that of Billy Bascom. But the kid is rescued from Jason Ryan's lynch party just in time. The thirst ...

When Jemma's new boss Matt suggests bringing a TV crew into the wildlife park, she reluctantly agrees. As Head of Mammals, she's occupied with the animals - and most urgently, the attempt to get their two giant pandas to breed. But the demanding TV director is more interested in another relations...

Two charming, impoverished spinster sisters place an advertisement in the paper and hire themselves out as professional chaperones. They will prepare even the most difficult misses for marriage, educating them in their School for Manners.

When strange sightings are reported in the village of Kilsudgeon - of people who aren't locals driving four-by-fours, a man bun requesting kefir in the restaurant, and a quad bike at a funeral - Ann Devine wonders what it all has to do with rumours of a brand new television series. A lot, as it h...

It is four years since the virus came, killing every adult in its path. Not long after that the electricity failed. Food and water started running out. Fires raged uncontrolled across the country. Now Anna cares for her brother alone in a house hidden in the woods, keeping him safe from 'the Outs...

Newly widowed and the father of an infant son, Henry VIII realises he must marry again to ensure the royal succession. Forty-six, overweight, and suffering from gout, Henry is soundly rejected by some of Europe's most eligible princesses. Anna of Kleve, from a small German duchy, is 24, and has a...

Anna Silverton and Janek Dabrowski escape war-torn Europe together, forging a friendship that carries them through difficult times. After a family trauma, Anna finds Janek again, but lies force them to part again. Can they ever have a future together?

Now sixteen, Anne is grown up - almost. She's now the new teacher at her old school, set on inspiring youthful hearts and minds. Along with teaching the three Rs, she meddles in someone else's romance, raises two new orphans and re-meets Gilbert Blythe.

Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert decide to adopt a strapping young boy from an orphanage intending their new son to work on the farm, but they are mistakenly sent a freckled, flame-haired firecracker called Anne with an irrepressible enthusiasm for life.