Large Print Books

Bath: Cedric Chivers Ltd, 1976. Blue boards, some shelf-wear. 361pp. Large print edition. The group of men who settle for a spell, to rest and refit in a Sicilian town, quickly make themselves at home with the inhabitants.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. (more information)

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Chivers Press, 1982. Large print book. Usual library stamps and marks. Some bumping to spine ends and corners, slight lean. 189pp. The old elm tree had stood on the far side of the lawn at Timberley, the family mansion where Rosemary had been born. She always felt that the tree guided and guarded her in some strange way of its own. This is the story of Rosemary's seemingly impossible love for Ray, a married man, and of a gentle life in which, ultimately, the dreams came true.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library. (more information)

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Bath: Chivers Press, 1984. Large Print, glazed pictorial boards, usual library marks and stamps, some bumping and wear to corners, pages tanned. 198pp. At their first meeting Elizabeth had thought Jed Carrel insulting and arrogant, though she couldn't ignore the turbulent emotions his kiss had aroused.. Hard Cover. Good. Ex-Library. (more information)

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Thorndike, Maine: Thorndike Press, 1984. Large Print. Usual library stamps and marks. 338pp. This is the story of Sara and Richard Everton, a couple embarked on a journey of renewal. They leave a house and job in San Francisco and travel to the small Mexican village of Ibarra to reopen a copper mine, abandoned in 1910 by Richard's grandfather. They also plan to restore the family home, a crumbling reminder of the past.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library. (more information)

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Bath: Chivers Press, 1981. Large Print, usual library marks and stamps, lean to spine, some shelf-wear. Dustwrapper in protective grubby wrapper. 211pp. . Hard Cover. Fair/Good. Ex-Library. (more information)

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Anstey, Leicestershire: F. A. Thorpe Ltd., 1984. Ulverscroft Large Print Books. Usual library stamps and marks, lean to spine, 2in split to lower spine edge. 404pp. It began in 1964, when one million dollars worth of Bearer Bonds disappeared in Geneva. The money was destined for a top Russian scientist intent on defecting. But the defection went sour, the Department of Subversive Warfare lost two agents in Prague, and the money disappeared. The S. I. S. agent, Edward Mills, was arrested for theft. Now, ten years later, Mills has been released. He has just one purpose in life - to find out the truth, and his methods are brutally unconventional.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Ex-Library. (more information)

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Anstey, Leicestershire: F. A. Thorpe Ltd., 1978. Large Print, usual library marks and stamps, shelf-worn, lean to spine. Dustwrapper in plastic sleeve, worn to edge and corners, nicks to edge. 290pp. Alison's sister, Sally, had disappeared suddenly from her job as cook-housekeeper with the Eckersalls, allegedly having run off with a boy-friend, a story Alison finds hard to believe.. Hard Cover. Fair/Fair. Ex-Library. (more information)

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Bath, United Kingdom: Chivers Press, 2000. Large Print. No Inscriptions. Dustwrapper a little wrinkled to edge, small tear and wear to corners. 309pp. Hannah Sutherland is finding life difficult. Her husband Rob is away on another tour of duty at the Kinvara lighthouse and their son Andy is suffering from cerebral palsy. She has to cope with everything at home - with her own unwanted pregnancy, even with Rob's illegitimate daughter, Vaila, whose mother, Morna Jean, had dies so tragically young. Morna had been Rob's great love and Hannah sometimes feels she will always be second best. But the warm and friendly community of Kinvara is beginning to take the shy young woman to its collective heart; her rage at poor Andy's disability is beginning to soften into love and pity; perhaps Hannah can become a good Kinvara wife after all.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. (more information)

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Anstey, Leicestershire: F. A. Thorpe Ltd., 1987. An Ulverscroft Large Print Book. Usual library marks and stamps. Lean to spine. 323pp. When Jacky comes back to her family's beautiful Tudor home after three years in London, she finds disturbing changes. Her childhood friend David is now in charge of the crumbling estate, her rich cousin Richard has moved in and her beloved aunt is ill. Even falling in love adds to her problems, for David is already engaged. Besides Richard intends to marry Jacky and gain control of the estate.... First Thus. Soft Cover. Fair. Ex-Library. (more information)

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Anstey, Leicestershire: Thorpe, 1982. Ulverscroft Large Print. Usual library marks and stamps, slight lean to spine, some wear to edge and corners. 480pp. In the black hours of a wintry night, Eskimos from a distant settlement thrust their way through a vicious storm to the camp of the Northern Service Officer, the administrator of that vast, barren Arctic area known as Baffin Island. Their dog sled carries the body of a dying man called Shoona. Fearful, almost terrorized, they are loath to touch their stricken passenger or even speak of him. The officer brings Shoona into his quarters, revives him with stimulants, then listens with increasing fascination to his strange story.. Hard Cover. Good. Ex-Library. (more information)

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Bath: Chivers Press, 1984. Large Print. Usual library marks and stamps, fep removed, probably to remove library return sheet. Some spotting to page ends. 201pp. For the sake of her family's fortunes Leonie had agreed to an arranged marriage with her cousin Paul. Paul was handsome, rich and charming, and Leonie had always hero-worshipped him - so on the face of it she wasn't making such a sacrifice, and there seemed a reasonable chance that in time the two of them might make a success of the marriage. But Paul had never been a one-woman man, to put it mildly, and nothing about his behaviour suggested that marriage had changed him. Particularly where the beautiful but malicious Diane Irvine was concerned.... Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library. (more information)

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Leicester: Ulverscroft Large Print Books, 1974. Large Print. Usual library stamps and marks, a little loose. Dustwrapper in protective plastic wrapper. 371pp. A peaceful England is suddenly transformed into a hotbed of conflict, when towns and country houses are besieged, and civil war prevails. Whilst Charles Ist reveals an unexpected talent as a strategist he is fatally handicapped by lack of money and his own aversion to violence.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Ex-Library. (more information)

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Leicester: F. A. Thorpe (Publishing) Ltd., 1996. Usual library marks and stamps, library sale price to ffep, heavy creasing to cover, slight lean, edge-wear. 239pp. Reformed mankiller Glen Lateen returned to Texas to see his ma before she died, but he hadn't even got to the family ranch when August Palau called him out.. Trade Paperback. Fair. Ex-Library. (more information)

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Skipton, North Yorkshire: Magna Print Books, 1987. Large print book. Usual ex-library marks and stamps, fep removed. Liquid paper mark at top of introduction page. Bumping to corners, small split to lower spine edge, lean to spine. 340pp. Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Shard found himself lumbered with the job of seeing Katie Farrell, the Belfast bomber, out of the country. Not that he minded too much until he lost her and word came of a threat to blow up the Chemical Defence Establishment at Porton Down. The trouble was, that the CDE had been having second thoughts about bad eggs in one basket and its lethal germ cargoes were being spread out along the west and south coast of England. One cache was not far behind Worthing, up on the South Downs under Chanctonbury Ring, and that was where something very nasty was found in an abandoned water-tank.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Ex-Library. (more information)

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Bath: Chivers Press, 1989. Glossy pictorial boards, large print book. An attempt has been made to remove many of the library markings by removing the ffep, and the lower half of the plot outline page has been removed, as has the lower half of the title page, worn and bumped to corners, some shelf-wear. 279pp. When innocent, country-bred Ann Clevely fell in love with Bill Gibson, an aspiring artist, she fell hook, line and sinker. But when Bill didn't turn up for their engagement party, she refused to believe that he had let her down.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Ex-Library. (more information)

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Oxford, United Kingdom: Isis Large Print Books, 2001. Glossy pictorial boards. Large print book. No Inscriptions, slight bumping to corners. 334pp. If America had a royal family, the Winthrops would wear the crown. Popular and charismatic, they capture the imagination of the world with their public service, their charity and their glamorous lives. But then, in a single year, all five members of the family are killed in accidents.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. (more information)

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Anstey, Leicestershire: F. A. Thorpe Ltd., 1995. Ulverscroft Large Print Books. Usual library stamps and markings. 409pp + adverts. When Amy's husband, Michael, leaves her, she feels there is little she can do. She carefully contains her anger and sense of betrayal. Four years on, Amy is diagnosed as having a rare form of thyroid cancer. Lying in hospital, in pain, her gaze travels beyond her fellow patients and into her past - her first meeting with Michael, the unplanned pregnancy and hasty marriage, followed by their first daughter's still birth. Amy begins to challenge her past actions, and as she does so she discovers a future worth fighting for.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library. (more information)

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