Collection: Large Print - Fiction

When ex-librarian Emma announces she's accepted a year-long position to teach English in Japan, the news shocks her grown children. Enjoying single life after half a year of estrangement from her husband Neil, Emma can't wait to embark upon her adventure in three weeks. Then Neil is hospitalised ...

Val didn't expect to be starting again in her seventies, but when life gives her lemons, Val is determined to make lemonade. Settled into her new home - a picture-perfect fisherman's cottage in the small Cornish seaside town of Lowenstowe - Val is ready to start a new chapter. And with her son du...

"It began on New Year's Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed--and more than half of the world's population was decimated. Wher...

Three women celebrate their birthdays... 30. 40. 50. But their milestone birthdays mark the start of a year that will change everything... Ginger isn't spending her 30th the way she would have planned. Tonight might be the first night of the rest of her life - or a total disaster. Sam is finally ...

Ten-year-old Cub lives with her parents, older brother Cassie, and twin brother Wally on a lonely property bordering an abandoned cattle farm and knackery. Their lives are shadowed by the infamous actions of her Granddad Les in his yellow weatherboard house, just over the fence. Although Les died...

The story of a woman?s decent into madness. Confined to a room, with only the intricate wallpaper for stimulation, the narrator slowly loses her grip on reality. Also, there are eighteen stories of women removed from their traditional roles.

Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the estate’s medicine woman and cherished by the Master’s sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world. She’d ...

Rosie had a deep and terrible secret haunting her. She tried her best to put the past behind her but then she met Jake Lucas. Devastatingly handsome Jake knew everything about her and seemed to despise her for it.

When Holly and her husband, Tom, begin a new life in an English village, Holly discovers an ancient moondial in the garden which will change her life forever. For the moondial offers a glimpse into the future which is both tantalising and heartbreaking

In 1942, Evie Farrow is used to life on Ocracoke Island, where every day is the same – until the German U-boats haunting their waters begin to wreak havoc. And when special agent Sterling Bertrand is washed ashore at Evie's inn, her life is turned upside down. While Sterling's injuries keep him i...