Collection: Large Print - Fiction

At the age of eighteen, Alice Ware is pretty, charming and impetuous. Back home in Yorkshire at the start of a new century, she is determined to seize any fresh opportunities and experiences that come her way. The arrival of a new neighbour, the elegant and scandalous Mrs Emma Cheevey, leads to v...

In the desolate outback town of Finnigans Gap, police struggle to maintain law and order. Thieves pillage opal mines, religious fanatics recruit vulnerable young people and billionaires do as they please. Then an opal miner is found crucified and left to rot down his mine. Nothing about the miner...

Gilda Baxter decides to call unannounced at her fiance's cottage on a surprise visit... only to learn on her arrival that his boat, badly damaged, had been found floating overturned in the bay, and that he is missing - presumed drowned... Diana Russell is on a mission to help her twin sister stop...

With her engagement in tatters, Jonquil Jones, a Portable Antiquities specialist, moves to Cornwall for a fresh start. When a golden torc that has lain hidden underground for centuries is unearthed, she can feel her soul stirring with excitement. Is it a single find, or part of an extraordinary t...

Tremarnock is a classic Cornish seaside village. Houses cluster around the fishing harbour. It has a pub and a sought-after little restaurant. It is here that Liz has found sanctuary for herself and her young daughter, Rosie - far away from Rosie's cheating father. Liz works all the hours God sen...

Stumbling on a case that suggests that a man convicted of murder seven years earlier may have been framed, game warden Mike Bowditch ignores warnings by local authorities and risks his relationship with his girlfriend to conduct a secret investigation

The granddaughter of movie star Janet Hardy, Cilla McGowan comes home after her grandmother dies in mysterious circumstances. Cilla slowly begins to unravel her family's secrets, but someone else in the community wants Cilla to leave the past alone...

Investigating a murder at a solo artists Quebec village home, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team encounter deceptive nuances in the art world that distort every clue they find with tales of duality and broken hearts.

Halloween, 1881. Edinburgh. And the dead are restless. Inspector James McLevy is called to action when Muriel Grierson, an outwardly genteel widow, is robbed at home. Her knight in shining armour - one Arthur Conan Doyle, recently graduated from medical school - is keen to learn from such a maste...

Struggling with long-buried family secrets and her own heartbreak, artist and pet portraitist Susie Mahl hopes her brief sojourn as art tutor at a Scottish mansion will prove a distraction. Can she get her mix of students to behave long enough to draw a Highland cow? Can her hosts the Earl and Co...