Collection: Large Print - Fiction

Arsene Lupin is a gentleman thief, and this first book from the pen of Maurice Leblanc introduces us to this wonderful character's first adventure. Written many years ago, this exciting crime romp is still fantastic fun today.

LeBlanc's creation, gentleman thief Arsene Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat -- witty, charming, brilliant, sly . . . and possibly the greatest thief in the world. In this classic tale, Lupin comes up against the only man who may be able to stop him . . . no less than...

1990: thirteen works of art worth over 500 million dollars were stolen from the Gardner Museum in Boston. It's the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a young artist, searches for the truth which leads her into a labyrinth of deceit.

In 1966, cookery writer Kathleen Eaden published The Art of Baking. Now, five amateur bakers are competing to become the New Mrs Eaden. As unlikely alliances are forged and secrets rise to the surface, cooking seems the least of the contestants problems.

Hazel Crick is furious when her entry for the Town Art Show is rejected. Convinced her colleague Jon Hunter is responsible, she accuses him of vetoing her painting out of spite. Later that day, she waits beside Jon's car to apologise. But this puts her in the wrong place at the wrong time - she i...

Ballarat, 1905. The gossips call 19-year-old Edie Cottingham the 'Too Girl' - too stubborn, too outspoken, and too modern to get a husband. But Edie does not care. She is determined to defy them all and find love with Theo Hooley, the gentle church organist and veteran of the African Boer war. Bu...

Professor Lila Maclean is set to interview celebrated author and notorious cad Damon Von Tussel, but he disappears. Strange warnings, missing items and dangerous incidents threaten Stonedale's guests. The chancellor makes it clear that he expects Lila to locate the missing writer and set events b...

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a po...

When English teacher Gemma Lamb's school flat is wrecked by storms, maverick headmistress Hairnet insists the girls must fund its repair by setting up their own businesses - the start of a series of hilarious unintended consequences. Meanwhile Gemma's worries are compounded by the arrival of boss...

At twenty-one, Tallulah Park lives alone in a grimy bedsit, where a strange damp smell causes her to wake up wheezing. When she finds out her estranged father has had a heart attack and arranges to visit him, she isn't looking forward to seeing her relatives again. Years before, she was being tos...