Collection: Large Print Adult Fiction Paperback

Victorian plant-hunters Caroline and Luke Hathern, accompanied by Mrs Ada Peace, journey to China in search of the fabled Dove Tree. Caroline's father William deals with their rival in London, while among the mountains at Fu Li, her beloved husband becomes her unexpected problem. The help of an e...

Famed for its natural beauty and rich history, Sardinia in 1968 is notorious, too, for the bandits who kidnap wealthy landowners for ransom. Eleven-year-old Alba Fresu's brother, and her father, Bruno, are abducted by criminals who mistake Bruno for a rich man. After a grueling journey through th...

For Emily, accepting the proposal of Philip, Viscount Ashton, was an easy way to escape her stifling home life so when her new husband dies on safari, she feels little grief for she barely knew the man. Now, two years on, when she finds his journals she discovers a very different man to the one s...

Even a woman as resourceful and intelligent as Niki Rittenhaus needs alliances in order to survive. Her marriage to Rickard Langer seems convenient for them both. When Rickard succumbs to increasing pressure from the Nazis to make propaganda movies, a horrified Niki turns away from her own film a...

May 1917. Emma Lewis Swan's husband, Tom, has gone from Boston to France, eager to do his duty as a surgeon. Emma, a sculptress, has stayed behind, pursuing her art despite being dismissed by male critics. On the bustling sidewalk she spies a returned soldier. His brutally scarred face inspires f...

In the summer of 1942, as war rages across Europe, a series of anonymous leaflets appears around the University of Munich, speaking out against escalating Nazi atrocities. The leaflets are hidden in public places or mailed to addresses selected at random from the phone book. Natalya Petrovich, a ...

'Celestial Bodies' is set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, where we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries Abdallah after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla who rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved, who has emigrated to Canada. These three women a...

Joe McKee - pillar of the Derry community - is dead. As arrangements are made for the traditional Irish wake, friends and family are left reeling at how cancer could have taken this much-loved man so soon. But grief is the last thing that Joe's daughter Ciara and step-daughter Heidi feel. For the...

When a mysterious woman visited Gregory Payne, warning him of danger, he dismissed her. Shortly afterwards, he was dead. His grieving daughter Linda arrives home with her new husband Walter Gordon, to be greeted by private detective John Storm, who believes Gregory to have been murdered. The dead...

When Captain Robert Monceaux, of the Fifteenth Light Dragoons, rescues Miss Lucinda Handscome from a highway robbery, she piques his interest. Robert cannot stay away from her, and Lucinda becomes attracted to him. But, after a misunderstanding, Lucinda runs away.