Collection: Large Print - Fiction

Sarah Courtney has lived with her aunt and uncle, a prosperous merchant, since her father died a year ago. When the handsome and wealthy Ross Balfour catches her eye, she has no expectation of marrying him - until they accidentally fall into a compromising situation, and he offers for her hand to...

As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935, Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content working for her father. When her husband falls gravely ill, Frankie's mother takes over, causing serious trouble for her daughter. Jericho Harte has never met a woman he wanted to marry until he ...

Coming to terms with the shocking events, survivors from the Titanic form new attachments, make decisions with tragic consequences. How can life ever be the same again when you have heard 1,500 people dying in the water around you?

1889: Mrs Hudson, long-suffering landlady of 221b Baker Street, falls ill and collapses in her home, and is whisked off by Dr Watson to St Bartholomew's Hospital. Perhaps she has developed an overactive imagination thanks to her eccentric lodgers, but it seems she is surrounded by patients who al...

1774. Gently bred noblewoman Adrienne Lafayette must renounce the complicated man she loves, or risk her life for a legacy that will inspire generations to come. 1914. Glittering New York socialite Beatrice Chanler witnesses the devastation of the war in France firsthand, and must convince Americ...

When Tartelin Brown accepts a job as a PA to a reclusive lepidopterist, she finds herself on a wild island with a mysterious history. Tartelin has been employed by Marianne Stourbridge to hunt for butterflies, but she quickly uncovers something far more intriguing. The island and Marianne share a...

Cairo, Egypt, 1913. When schoolgirl Marie Kewfik is kidnapped, snatched away as she strolled through the bustling bazaars of the Souk, the Khedive insists that the Mamur Zapt, Head of the Secret Police, takes charge of the negotiations for her safe return. The Kewfiks are one of the wealthiest an...

Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home as victors, loaded with their spoils: their stolen gold, stolen weapons, stolen women. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind does not come. The gods have been offended, and so the victors remain i...

London, 1940. After her fiance breaks off their engagement, Evelyn decides to do her part for the war effort by signing up for construction work on Waterloo Bridge. Grieving after her little boy dies in an air raid, Gwen is completely lost when her husband sends their younger children to the coun...

Lib Wright, a young English nurse, arrives in an impoverished Irish village on a strange mission. Eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell is said to have eaten nothing for months, but appears to be thriving miraculously. With tourists thronging to see this child, and the press sowing doubt, the baffled co...