Collection: Large Print - Fiction

A summer of endless rain in the Peak District leaves the officers of Derbyshire's CID with a problem. They have discovered a man's body lying in shallow water, but torrential rain has made travel difficult and forensic examination impossible.

When Cherry Hawthorn is told her image isn't right to promote the television show she invented, she decides to have a makeover. Thrilled when her dishy boss Alan Jenkins not only approves, but also promises to take the new her on a date, she sets off to Sea View Spa. There, she meets the friendly...

It started with a letter. It ended with a love story. Every December, Josie posts a letter from her home in London to the parents she lost on Christmas many years ago. But this year, her annual trip to the post-box is knocked off course by a bicycle collision with a stranger who will change the c...

After being held in a camp during the war, Brenda Stuart returns to her late husband's stately home in the Pennines, to be reunited with her young son. A factory-worker's daughter from Manchester, Brenda doesn't belong in such wealthy surroundings - which her father-in-law never lets her forget. ...

1939. When war is declared, thirteen-year-old twins, Shirley and Tom are evacuated to the coastal town of Worthing. Shirley is the bright one of the pair, whereas Tom is sometimes slow to understand the world around him. But Shirley helps him get by and is his best friend and ally. The twins are ...

The Frosts are a typical American family. Barb and John, married almost 50 years, are testy and bored with each other ... who could blame them after all this time? At least they have their daughters – Barb's favourite, the perfect, brilliant Juliet; and John's darling, the free-spirited Sadie. Th...

As a psychiatrist, Nadine Lavoie has a desire to help people put their demons at rest, but she has troubles of her own - some she can barely think about, and some she can't even remember - there are black holes in her memory and she has no idea why.

Street-savvy, almost-thirteen-year-old Aaron Broom is guarding his father's car when he witnesses a robbery gone wrong in a jewellery store across the street. To Aaron's shock, his father, a travelling watch salesman in the wrong place at the wrong time, is fingered as the prime suspect in the mu...

Grace Adams gave birth, blinked and now suddenly she is 45, perimenopausal and stalled – the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she’s really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply ...

When Kitty Farrell is offered a trinket by a street urchin, her impulsive response will change both of their lives forever, and place an unexpected strain on Kitty's marriage. For the past four years, she has sailed the high seas on the trading vessel KATIPO with Rian, her wild Irish husband; but...