Collection: Large Print - Fiction

When their plane is shot down, and to avoid capture while on a secret mission over Germany, two British pilots jump on a train and end up in a mental hospital where German doctors subject their patients to daily rounds of shock treatments and drugs.

Emma and her staff are treading very lightly for the paper's House & Home editor, is refusing to speak to her colleagues, or even her boss. Then a young woman walks in claiming her parents have been murdered, and that she's in mortal danger, too...

A summer of endless rain in the Peak District leaves the officers of Derbyshire's CID with a problem. They have discovered a man's body lying in shallow water, but torrential rain has made travel difficult and forensic examination impossible.

When Cherry Hawthorn is told her image isn't right to promote the television show she invented, she decides to have a makeover. Thrilled when her dishy boss Alan Jenkins not only approves, but also promises to take the new her on a date, she sets off to Sea View Spa. There, she meets the friendly...

After being held in a camp during the war, Brenda Stuart returns to her late husband's stately home in the Pennines, to be reunited with her young son. A factory-worker's daughter from Manchester, Brenda doesn't belong in such wealthy surroundings - which her father-in-law never lets her forget. ...

1939. When war is declared, thirteen-year-old twins, Shirley and Tom are evacuated to the coastal town of Worthing. Shirley is the bright one of the pair, whereas Tom is sometimes slow to understand the world around him. But Shirley helps him get by and is his best friend and ally. The twins are ...

The Frosts are a typical American family. Barb and John, married almost 50 years, are testy and bored with each other ... who could blame them after all this time? At least they have their daughters – Barb's favourite, the perfect, brilliant Juliet; and John's darling, the free-spirited Sadie. Th...

As a psychiatrist, Nadine Lavoie has a desire to help people put their demons at rest, but she has troubles of her own - some she can barely think about, and some she can't even remember - there are black holes in her memory and she has no idea why.

Street-savvy, almost-thirteen-year-old Aaron Broom is guarding his father's car when he witnesses a robbery gone wrong in a jewellery store across the street. To Aaron's shock, his father, a travelling watch salesman in the wrong place at the wrong time, is fingered as the prime suspect in the mu...

Grace Adams gave birth, blinked and now suddenly she is 45, perimenopausal and stalled – the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she’s really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply ...