Collection: Large Print Fiction

In the summer of 1968, Ruby Wilde is the toast of Las Vegas. Showgirl of the Year, in her feathers and rhinestones, five-inch heels and sky-high headdresses, she mesmerises audiences from the Tropicana to the Stardust. Ratpackers and movie stars, gamblers and astronauts vie for her attention and ...

Gretel Fernsby lives a quiet life despite her deeply disturbing past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age 12. She doesn't talk about the grim post-war years. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, who was the commandant of one of the Reich's most notorious extermin...

Heather Willette has a good life in Concord, Massachusetts - complete with a husband who runs his own business and a son to take up his mantle one day. But now that her marriage has fizzled out and Ross, her only child, is graduating from college and getting serious with his girlfriend, Heather w...

Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. But when the Nazis invade, father and daughter flee with a dangerous secret. Werner is a German orphan, destined to labour...

In this charming, evocative, soul-touching novel, she once again takes us deep into the heart of the magical Lowcountry where three amazing middle-aged women are bonded by another amazing woman’s death. Through their shared loss they forge a deep friendship, asking critical questions. Who was the...

France, 1914: As war breaks out, Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front. When the Germans move into their family's ancestral estate, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major's aide de camp, Maximilian Von Sternburg. She and the young officer first met during Aurelie's debutant...

Philadelphia, 1837. After Charlotte escaped from the crumbling White Oaks plantation down South, she'd expected freedom to feel different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. After all, Philadelphia is supposed to be the birthplace of American liberty. Instead, she's locked away playing...

Julie Charlton is overwhelmed and burned out, and her kids are, too. Then her sister-in-law Susan, a Martha Stewart-in-training, lands the chance to participate in a reality TV series promoting simple living. She needs another family to join her, and it seems like the perfect opportunity. The loc...

Ethel Weir's killer is never found, though the young man who came across her body was at one point due to hang. Testifying on his behalf was Parley Burns, schoolteacher and 'gentleman sadist', whose attentions unsettle and alarm the girls in his charge. When reporter Connie Flood arrives to cover...

Every season in Rockton seems to bring a new challenge. At least that's what Detective Casey Duncan has felt since she decided to call this place home. Between all the secretive residents, the sometimes-hostile settlers outside, and the surrounding wilderness, there's always something to worry ab...

Glen Walsh and Steven Alward were childhood friends in their tight-knit working-class community in Newcastle, NSW. Both proud altar boys at the local Catholic church, they went on to attend the city's Catholic boys' high schools: Glen to Marist Brothers, Hamilton, and Steven to St Pius X. Both di...

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. ...

Left unable to walk by a childhood illness, Lady Jennifer, sister of the Duke of Wilby, has made a happy place for herself in society - even if she cannot dance at balls or stroll in Hyde Park. She is blessed with a loving, protective family, but secretly dreams of marriage, children, walking - a...

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...

At university it all seemed so simple; Sarah and Cahal would conquer the world. But Cahal was from the wrong side of the tracks, and when family pressures mounted, the couple weren't as brave as they hoped they'd be. Fast-forward twenty years... Sarah, divorced mum of two children and a successfu...

Five stories set in the American Old West.

Only Detective Michael Bennett stands in the way of two lethal cartels fighting for New York City's multi-million-dollar opioid trade. And they know where Bennett, and his family, live. An anonymous tip about a crime in Upper Manhattan proves to be a setup. An officer is taken down--and, despite ...

She'll do anything to uncover the truth of her parents' murder -- even work alongside the man who once broke her heart. Paradise Alden's childhood in Nova Cambridge, Alabama, was idyllic until the night her parents were murdered. Since then life has left her scarred. The abuse she suffered in the...

At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in northern California and robbed Angie Bing, the teller, who scraped together 81,000 dollars. Boyd stuffed the cash into a paper grocery bag and then took Angie hostage. So begins the adventure of Boyd ...

Pival Sengupta has done something she never expected: she has booked a trip with the First Class India USA Destination Vacation Tour Company. But unlike other upper-class Indians on a foreign holiday, the recently widowed Pival is not interested in sightseeing. She is traveling thousands of miles...

Christopher Newman is an American expatriate in Paris; his fortune made, he has moved to the Old World to enjoy his wealth and find a wife. Newman soon falls for a young widow, the aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde, but his brash New World sensibility horrifies her haughty family. Though the fami...

After a botched undercover operation, ex-NYPD officer Marshall Grade is living in witness protection in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He's a marked man: the mob wants him dead, and a contract killer known as Dallas Man has been hired to track him down. Seeking atonement for past wrongs, Marshall resurfac...

In Kent, England, the arrival of Beranger Northcott, Duke of Brightshire, causes a stir. Because with the duke comes his new American bride, who isn't quite what anyone expects. By accepting the hand of her beloved, Emma Brinkman went from hardworking Colorado rancher to duchess. Now she's expect...

"Be careful what you wish for." Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts', suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham, married to Ivo, the most eligible bac...

Plastic surgeon Mitchell Cooper used to have it all.But when his life collapsed, he and his little daughter Molly moved to London to rebuild their lives - and Mitchell sealed off his damaged heart. Yet after one star-studded night with fellow surgeon Grace, Mitchell finds himself daring to live a...

1842, Hunter Valley: Lucy Stewart's life turns chaotic when she finds herself caught up in a murder investigation in order to save her brother-in-law, Joe, from the hangman's noose. Constable Sam Donovan believes the accusations levelled at Joe Stewart are suspicious at best and feels compelled t...

Ana María Luna Valdés has strived to be the perfect daughter, the perfect niece, and the perfect representative of the powerful Luna family. So when Ana María is secretly sent to London with her sisters to seek refuge from the French occupation of Mexico, she experiences her first taste of freedo...

Lilian Estrada is part of a family of exceptional women bound together by an extraordinary secret. The Estrada women each possess a unique power, and Lily shines with the rare gift to manipulate memories. Yet not even her mystical abilities can shield her from a harrowing event that sends her pow...

In New York, if you have a problem no one else can solve, you call Leonid McGill. Ex-boxer, hard drinker, in a business that trades in cash and favours, McGill's an old-school PI working a city that's got fancy all around him. When McGill is approached by a small-time office manager, he declines ...