Collection: Adult large print

On the beautiful Mediterranean island of Xena, Zara's peace is shattered by a phone call from her ex-husband Owen. It turns out that, thanks to him ticking the wrong box on the divorce form, they are still very much married! Now engaged to someone else, Owen wants to finalise the divorce properly...

Abandoned as a newborn at the doors of the local YMCA and then bounced between foster homes, Shannon eventually finds stability in the home of Miranda, a single mother with a daughter of her own. But as Shannon grows, so do her questions. Will she ever belong? Who is her true family? And why did ...

This novel is set in the heady summer days of post-World War Two Gloucestershire. Yanto, invalided out of the Army towards the end of the war, has recovered and is working on the docks. Although he enjoys civilian life, he misses the thrill and risk of war, and has to readjust to a sedate life of...

When ex-librarian Emma announces she's accepted a year-long position to teach English in Japan, the news shocks her grown children. Enjoying single life after half a year of estrangement from her husband Neil, Emma can't wait to embark upon her adventure in three weeks. Then Neil is hospitalised ...

Three women celebrate their birthdays - 30. 40. 50. But this milestone birthday marks the start of a year that will change everything. Ginger isn't spending her 30th the way she would've planned. Tonight might be the first night of the rest of her life - or a total disaster. Sam is finally pregna...

It is war-time Britain and seduced by her brother-in-law, Frances, 16, becomes pregnant. She gives birth to twins, a boy and a girl, whom her mother heartlessly wrenches from her. And when told her baby daughter has died, Frances is overcome with grief. After years of loneliness, Frances decides ...

2017. Pregnant Rachel Taylor is enjoying a holiday in Morocco when she gets the phone call to say her mother hasn't got much time left to live. With a head of mixed emotions she returns to the village where she grew up to say her last goodbyes. It's true to say their relationship had often been s...

Poet and veteran Kevin Powers has composed an account of friendship and loss. It vividly captures the desperation and brutality of war, and its terrible after-effects. But it is also a story of love, great courage and extraordinary survival.