Collection: Large Print - Fiction

Paris 1919. The fate of half the world's nations is being discussed. Sir Henry Maxted, a member of the British diplomatic delegation falls from the roof of his mistress's apartment building in unexplained circumstances. His son James wants the truth

It's 1984, and summer is scorching the ordinary village of Heathcote. What's more, a mysterious figure is slipping into homes through back doors and open windows. Dubbed 'the Fox', he knows everything about everyone - leaving curious objects in their homes, or taking things from them. When belove...

Who knows you better than your best friend? Who knows your secrets, your fears, your desires, your strange imperfect self? Edi and Ash have been best friends for over 40 years. Since childhood they have seen each other through life's milestones – stealing vodka from their parents, the Madonna pha...

The story of an American family, ordinary in every way but one. Rosemary spent the first six years of her life with Fern. She was her twin, her funhouse mirror, her other half and she loved her as a sister. But Fern was a chimpanzee .....

Married to a soldier returned from Afghanistan injured in body and mind, Stella writes letters for her patients to their loved ones on her nursing shifts at night. She promises to post them after their deaths until one extraordinary letter is written...

You can't save someone that doesn't want to be saved... For some people, trouble just finds them. Thirty years ago, Vincent King became a killer. Now, he's been released from prison and is back in his hometown of Cape Haven, California. Not everyone is pleased to see him. Like Star Radley, his ex...

Needing to escape her London life quickly, Eleanor throws her things into the back of her car, and heads to her erstwhile best friend Charlie's family farm. But Charlie isn't there. Instead she finds Charlie's grieving brother Daniel, her eight-month old daughter Hope (a daughter Eleanor had know...

Travelling north by car, David Stanmore makes a fateful stopover at a pub, where a thief steals a woman's handbag and then disappears. The distraught woman tells Stanmore that she had been on a covert mission for her employer to meet his friend in York, who was to give her information on the loca...

Simon is an eleven-year old boy who lives in a world of silence, lists and numbers. He hasn't spoken for years and he doesn't know why. Everyone at school thinks he's weird and his only friends in the world are his brother Davey and Superman, who's always there when he needs him. One day Simon sh...

1939: Irena is a young medical student living in Warsaw when the German army invade Poland. Those closest to her are dying and when Irena realises that no one is coming to Poland's aid, it's clear that she is alone. Forced to flee to Britain, Irena meets Richard, a RAF pilot who she's instantly d...