Collection: Large Print Adult Fiction Paperback

Spring 1941. It is the third year of war, and when the siren sounds the people of Cambridge trudge to the city's public bomb shelters. Crowded, smoky, often raucous, the shelters have become a way of life for the poor. At dawn the body of a young man is found in a shadowy corner of the Trinity Sh...

Lyra Clarkson has built a career capturing other people's perfect moments. She loves her work as a wedding photographer - despite her family's disapproval - but she's never quite found her own path. Guy Walker, former rock star turned wedding singer, has hit a new low. Desperately needing cash, h...

After losing all his money to a swindler, William Carbury agrees to the long-term rental of his home, Noxborough Hall, to Rufus Lovell. Rufus allows William and his daughter Lisette to live in the small gate lodge at the property. Rufus turns the hall into a school to educate young gentlemen. As ...

March, 1605. Since discovering that the injury he sustained years ago has lost its power to induce chronic seasickness, country doctor and former ship's surgeon Gabriel Taverner has joined the service of Walter Haverleigh, a wealthy and successful merchant, who has engaged him to tend the crew of...

Justice in sixteenth-century Bologna is like the fine silk which the city produces: something only the rich and powerful can afford. Elena Morandi is a supremely talented seamstress, at home among the bolts of fabric and cutting shears of her trade. However, she is determined that her ambition to...

London, 1945. The capital is the backdrop for many struggling with demons unleashed by the recent World War. Maisie Dobbs is drawn into the story of a group of squatters, including a demobbed soldier, who have set up camp in the Belgravia mansion of her former in-laws Lord and Lady Julian Compton...

For Jo Jenkins, life has always been about putting others first. But with her children grown and her ex-husband as rotten as ever, she knows it's time to put herself at the heart of the story. So, when she inherits a beautiful beachside cottage in Cornwall, she grabs the chance to start over. The...

Cordelia Jago has lost everything. Her mother, her father, her career, her husband and her best friend, her trust. All she has left is a legacy she never expected - and would never have wanted. Wilder Hoo - The Wild House - is a crumbling Cornish manor house which she hates, full of unhappy memor...

Now: When Megan's father gets a letter containing a secret from the past, he asks her to go to the Cornish village of St Mawgen Cove to get to the bottom of the mystery. Megan is happy to take a holiday after a challenging year but as soon as she checks into The Ship Inn something feels amiss. Th...

August, 1939. Britain is in the throes of war, but Katharina Valentine feels sidelined. Employed as a typist at the top-secret cabinet war rooms, she still has no idea what is really occurring in the basement beneath the war office. As unexpected staff shortages present an opportunity to work dir...