Collection: Large Print - Fiction

When an old friend is killed, the senior partner isn't satisfied with Bow Street's efforts and asks Benjamin to investigate. Eager to leave London for a while, Benjamin agrees. Evidence takes him to a remote island on the Thames, a world unto itself, shrouded in mist and mystery. Soon he finds hi...

September 1940. England is at war and London has become an ever-fragile place for widowed Livia Ripley and her two young daughters, Polly and Eliza. When Livia meets charismatic publisher Hugo Ballantyne, she is hopeful that her life is about to change for the better. But as clouds gather in the ...

Rosemary takes a job in Spain, as a companion to Mercedes. On the train journey to Malaga, Rosemary meets Paul and falls completely under his spell, but she is shattered when she finds Mercedes is engaged to Paul. Angry, she hatches a plan at the wedding

Explosions are ruining sleep for hundreds of Scottsdale residents in the hot July nights. People thinks it's bored teenagers playing with fireworks but when a bomb at a power station throws the neighbourhood into darkness, terrorism is a real possibility.

Out of the blue, private investigator and ex-soldier Lee Arnold receives a visit from an old army mate. Abbas al'Barri worked as a translator with him during the Second Iraq War. Now living in Ilford with his family, Abbas is convinced that he's had a message from his estranged son Fayyaad, who w...

Cameron Spark is separated from his wife, and awaiting a tribunal following an incident in the underground vaults of Edinburgh, where he works as a ghost tour guide. On the day he moves back home to live with his widowed dad, he receives a letter from Canada. It is from Christie... Twenty-five ye...

Meet the Bright Young Things, the rabble-rousing hedonists of the 1920s whose treasure hunts were a media obsession. One such game takes place at the 18th birthday party of Pamela Mitford, but ends in tragedy as cruel, charismatic Adrian Curtis is pushed to his death from the church neighbouring ...

Sharon Pritchard decides to give up everything to follow her heart but her new life with Hadyn is anything but easy. Although he is handsome and charming, he is feckless and unreliable. And they soon find themselves sinking ever faster into poverty.

When they're not working in a West London munitions factory, Liz Beck and her best friend Marg find time for fun and laughter at the local ice rink. Then a couple of handsome American servicemen sweep them off their feet and Marg's dream of becoming a GI bride looks like it might come true. But t...

Molly lives with her repugnant father, who has betrayed her many times. From a young age, living on the streets of London's East End, she has seen the harsh realities of life. When she's kidnapped by a gang and forced into their underworld, her future seems bleak. Flo spent her early years in an ...