Collection: Large Print Adult Fiction Paperback

The grand opening of Charleston's Neptune Aquarium is a major event, and Theodosia Browning has been hired to cater a tea. But Theodosia discovers a man drowned in one of the tanks. It is her former boyfriend, Parker Scully.

London, 1938. Bookseller Gertie Bingham is facing difficult times, having just lost her beloved husband, Harry, and with a lingering sadness at never having been able to have a child of her own. Struggling to face running the bookshop she and Harry opened together, Gertie is preparing to sell up ...

May, 1941. Meet the Air Raid Girls: three young women keen to do their bit during the Yorkshire blitz. Connie's life has taken an unexpected turn since her husband died - she's living at home and working in the family bakery - but night shifts as an ARP Warden give her a firm sense of purpose. He...

September 1944: the allies launch the largest airborne offensive in history, delivering 36,000 troops by parachute and glider to the Dutch/German Border. In 9 days time, half of them will be casualties of war. Among their number is Theo Trickey, a young paratrooper so dreadfully injured he is not...

Conor Broekhart was born to fly. Or more accurately, he was born flying. Little wonder he became what he became. In an age of discovery and invention, many dreamed of flying, but for Conor flight was more than just a dream, it was his destiny.

As a child, Alberto lost his birthday in the Spanish Civil War. Now an old man living a simple life, he rarely thinks about his disappeared past. But when his grandson discovers his Apu has never had a birthday party, never blown out candles on a birthday cake, and never received a single card or...

For Marcus Didius Falco, Alexandria holds fascination & a hint of fear. The great city wears Roman rule lightly. While his wife, Helena Justina, wants to see the Lighthouse & the Pyramids, Falco has a mission at the Great Library.

Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, both of them irrevocably damaged by the Great War. Her father wanted the life of an English farmer, but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches, & thereafter had to wear a wooden leg. Her mother's great love was a doctor, who drowned in the Chan...

Some dark and sinister mystery surrounds wealthy financier Milton Vaizey, who has taken extensive security precautions to guard the grounds of his house. Despite these, however, his secretary is shot dead through the window by a rifleman hidden outside - is this the nameless adversary whom Vaizey...

Identical and brutal assaults on three women. One woman survives to give a detailed description of her attacker. The police arrest a suspect, Damon Morton, confident he is their man. But three of his employees admit to the crimes, and Morton's wife and girlfriend each provide him with an alibi. T...