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Book of the Month
A New Day -
Beryl Matthews
LargeprintOur Price: £19.99 - Available to order
London, 1938. Hanna and Jack were sent to an orphanage when their parents were killed in a train crash. Jack is worked like a slave and, in desperation, runs away to join the merchant navy. Hanna takes a job looking after two children. She enjoys her work and finds new love. But war is looming and threatens to take away everything she holds dear.
Other large print books we like
1.
The Casual Vacancy - J. K. Rowling
Largeprint (paperback) Our price: £13.49 - Currently in stock
When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early 40s, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. The empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has ever seen.
2.
A Dreadful Murder: The Mysterious Death of Caroline Luard - Minette Walters
Largeprint (paperback) Our price: £9.95 - Currently in stock
A Quick Reads Title
Based on the true story of the shocking murder of Mrs Caroline Luard, which took place in Kent in August 1908: Caroline Luard is shot dead in broad daylight in the grounds of a large country estate. With few clues available, her husband soon becomes the suspect...
3.
Doctor Who: The Silurian Gift - Mike Tucker
Largeprint (paperback) Our price: £9.95 - Currently in stock
A Quick Reads Title.
The world is on the brink of crisis. As fuel runs short, society begins to break down. One man seems to have the answer. But is it too good to be true? The Doctor arrives at an old oil refinery near the South Pole, concerned by claims about this new form of energy. He soon discovers something huge and terrifying is stalking the refinery, bringing death and destruction in its wake.
4.
Oscar and the Lady in Pink - Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Largeprint (paperback) Our price: £9.95 - Currently in stock
A Shortlist Title.
Ten-year-old Oscar is in hospital, dying. Granny Rose, the oldest of the ‘ladies in pink’ who come to visit the patients, makes friends with him. She suggests a game: to pretend that each of the followingtwelve days is a decade of his imaginary life. Every night Oscar writes a letter to God telling him about his life. The ten letters that follow are sensitive, funny, heartbreaking and, ultimately, life-affirming.
5.
Forms of Flight and Other Stories - Wendy Robertson
Largeprint (paperback) Our price: £9.95 - Currently in stock
A Shortlist Title
This collection of short stories is built around the themes of people who are moving or escaping from one way of life into another. A child brought up in the enclosed world of her charismatic grandmother ends up in a prison cell; a young teacher falls in love with a very bad lot; a little girl plays truant and spies on her school; a miner’s wife makes an art out of her twenty-four hour shift.
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A Little Light Flirtation and Other Stories - Elvi Rhodes
Largeprint (paperback) Our price: £9.95 - Currently in stock
A Shortlist Title
When a husband and wife on holiday quarrel, everyone in the hotel hears. But they don’t hear the thoughts running through her head... In A Question of Choice, Kate finds that her miscarriage causes a rift between her and her friends, who are happily settled with families. In Flight of Fancy, for Joe, the mundanity of prison life is lifted by visits from his wife Miriam. But his homecoming won’t be quite what he expects...
7.
Today Everything Changes - Andy McNab
Largeprint (paperback) Our price: £9.95 - Currently in stock
A Quick Reads Title
Abandoned as a baby, Andy McNab grew up in South London with foster parents, and poverty all around him. Andy attended seven schools in as many years, disillusioned and in remedial classes. It wasn’t long before his life was one of petty crime. By the age of sixteen, he was in juvenile detention. But six months in the Army education system was to change the now bestselling author’s life forever.
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Wrong Time, Wrong Place - Simon Kernick
Largeprint (paperback) Our price: £9.95 - Currently in stock
A Quick Reads Title
Have you ever been in the wrong place at the wrong time? You are hiking in Scotland with three friends when you come across a girl. She is half-naked, has been badly beaten, and she can’t speak English. She is clearly running away from someone. Do you stop to help her? Even if it means putting your friends’ lives, and your own, in terrible danger?
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Unspoken Truths - Laura Kalpakian
Largeprint (paperback) Our price: £9.95 - Currently in stock
Shortlist Title
Rachel Decker is old enough to have tattered illusions about her life. The sole, rewarding constant is her older sister, the wealthy, vivacious, world-travelling Ann, who has been Rachel's champion since childhood. Then Ann is killed in a car accident...
