Collection: Large Print - Fiction

Featuring an amazingly perceptive Edwardian child blessed with a talent for solving village puzzles, Betty Blake provides us with a glimpse of a future amateur detective in the making. Betty begins her sleuthing at age nine continuing through to age twelve. Her cases include pillar box puzzles to...

Cassie has spent her married life doing everything right - being a devoted wife and a dutiful daughter-in-law. Her sister Coco runs a vintage dress shop and has shied away from commitment over the years. Watching over them is grandmother Pearl...

Iron Eyes finds himself staring at a forest. A forest that reminds him of a time long before he had become the scarred infamous bounty hunter he now was. As he waits for his beloved Squirrel Sally to show up on her stagecoach, his mind drifts back to how it had all started - in the forest where h...

Reverend Mother Aquinas must discover who murdered a much-loved priest in the third of this compelling new Irish historical mystery series. Ireland. 1925. Pierced through to the brain, the dead body of the priest was found wedged into the small, dark confessional cubicle. Loved by all, Father Dom...

England, 1848. Housemaid Alice is taken from the big house she works in to be the only servant to Mrs Younger. The first person she meets is Daniel, whose friendly face she remembers in the dark, lonely days that follow. She dreams of romance but Daniel has a sweetheart - hasn't he? Then Mrs Youn...

A young couple are mown down in a hit and run incident. The girl is badly injured, the boy dies on the way to hospital. Operation Melody is launched with DI Faraday at the helm which reveals a mother driven to desperation by the attacks on her son...

After Janet Scott's grandfather dies, a friend of her grandfather, Josiah Saunders, offers her the security of an amiable but passionless marriage. But her heart belongs to another: her childhood friend, penniless lawyer's clerk, Fingal McLaughlan.

As a child Jeff Dale witnesses the killing of three members of a family and when a surviving child Cynthia went missing, Jeff vows to find her. Ten years later, after finding a clue about Cynthia's fate, Jeff rides to the frontier town of Redemption.

As German bombs fall over London in 1940, working-class parents Millie and Reginald Thompson make an impossible choice – they decide to send their 11-year-old daughter, Beatrix, to America, where they hope she’ll stay safe. Scared and angry, Bea arrives in Boston to meet the Gregorys. Mr and Mrs ...

Australia, 1853. Settled in the colony, Ellen is determined to make a happy new life for her family, and forget the horrors of famine-struck Ireland. Married for security, she works hard developing their estate in order to give her children the privileged life they could have only imagined back h...