Collection: Large Print - Fiction

When dashing Irish sea captain and part-time gunrunner Rian Farrell spontaneously buys the deed to a claim at Ballarat, where reef gold has recently been discovered underground, his wife Kitty is dismayed. Not only is mining dangerous work for the crew, who are seamen rather than labourers, but t...

In 1938, eighteen-year-old Phyllis Elsworth packs her bags, says goodbye to her anxious parents and sets off from her quiet seaside home for the Hackney Hospital in London's bustling East End, where she is to fulfil her dreams to train as a nurse. At first, it is a whirlwind of long days, hard wo...

Sam Bass was just a farm boy from Indiana, but he wound up in Texas and became one of the most notorious outlaws in the history of the Old West. Texas history has often referred to Bass as 'Texas' Beloved Bandit' or 'Robin Hood on a Fast Horse'. Jerry Guin's historical novel The Bandit takes an u...

Jack Lovell has the bad luck to arrive in Live Oaks, Arizona, just a few minutes after wealthy and powerful Zach Young has been shot in the back. The stranger's chill grey eyes and cool, cocky manner make him suspect at once...

When Joe Flint meets Matt Harper and Pete Brogan, he is enticed by their tales of gold and mystery. They tell of a legendary Mexican leader who funded his reign during the Civil War through a criminal network. Drawn in by the promise of fortune, he follows his new friends. But along the way, they...

Isabella Beverley is blessed with unparalleled beauty but has, unfortunately, been raised in the most snobbish and haughty of families. And when her father gambles away their fortune - including Mannerling, the exquisite family mansion - Isabella discovers that there is very little sympathy for h...

On an early morning in November, a couple boards a private plane bound for Geneva, flying into a storm. Soon after, it simply drops off the radar, and its wreckage is later uncovered in the Alps. Among the disappeared is Matthew Werner, a banking insider at Swiss United, a powerful offshore bank....

When Maggie Banks arrives in Bell River to run her best friend's struggling bookstore, she expects to sell bestsellers to her small-town clientele. But running a bookstore in a town with a famously bookish history isn't easy. Bell River's literary society insists on keeping the bookstore stuck in...

The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind. But what was the cause of his tragedy and how far might the consequences reach? Is there a link between the young man's leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific poisoning in Cambridge?

As war rages over Europe, Barbara r is desperate to escape from her unhappy home. She agrees to marry one man, but becomes involved with two others. With the constant threat of death all around, Barbara must unravel the complexities of her home life.