Collection: Large Print Adult Fiction Paperback

The year is 1809, and the recruiting sergeants are hard at work, as the British army gathers strength for the next phase of the campaign against Bonaparte on the Spanish Peninsula. Captain Billy Pringle of the 106th Foot, however, has a somewhat more urgent reason to leave the country: having bec...

Set against the backdrop of tabloid frenzies and an escalating national crisis, 'All is Song' is a novel about filial and moral duty, and about the choice of questioning above conforming. It is a work of remarkable perception, intensity and resonance from one of Britain's most promising young wri...

This story is told by a young soldier in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. Through his eyes we see the realities of war. Incidents are vividly described, but there is no sense of adventure, only the feeling of youth betrayed.

It wasn't exactely what Maddy had had in mind. Hugo Griffin ('Griff') had agreed to fly Maddy to her holiday destination but, halfway over Paradise Island, they'd been forced to crash land! Maddy had wanted peace and quiet but a deserted island was extreme. At least she had company for Christmas ...

In a run-down apartment block in Moscow, a nine-year-old piano prodigy practices silently for fear of disturbing the neighbours. In a factory on the outskirts of the city, his aunt makes car parts, trying to hide her dissident past. In the hospital, a surgeon immerses himself in his work to avoid...

A savage murder rocks a quiet Boston suburb, revealing the dark secrets at the centre of a group of friends.

When terrible tragedy strikes at the local colliery, the residents of Fairly Terrace's ten houses suffer more than one loss and for Maggie Donovan the world turns upside down. Turning for comfort to the one man she can trust, she finds a sudden and undeniable passion instead. But any future with ...

In weekly phone calls to his daughter in Australia, widower Hubert Bird paints a picture of the perfect retirement, packed with fun, friendship and fulfilment. But Hubert Bird is lying. The truth is day after day drags by without him seeing a single soul. Until, that is, he receives some good new...

When high-flyer Natasha Bernstein loses her prestigious job at the New York Times, the bottom seems to have fallen out of her world, and when her relationship with her fiance Josh implodes, she cannot believe that she could sink any lower. She moves back in with her parents, and makes the first p...

The small town of Bridgeford is in crisis. The high street is half empty, businesses are closing and the idea of civic pride seems old-fashioned to the commuters rushing home from work. Somehow, it seems to have lost its heart. But there is one thing that might just bring the town together - musi...