Spydus Search Results - Series: Isis large print

A seaside affair / Fern Britton.

Author: Britton, Fern
Large print edition.
Published: Oxford : Isis, 2016.
480 pages ; 24 cm.
Isis large print
The new warm and witty novel from a much-loved TV personalityWhen it is announced that the much-loved theatre in the Cornish seaside town of Trevay is about to be taken over by a coffee chain, residents are up in arms. Hotshot producer Penny Leighton pulls in some serious favours, and actors descend on the town to take part in a charity season at the theatre. One actress, Jess Tate, is struggling with her stagnant career while her TV heartthrob boyfriend is on the up. Trevay is about to put on the show of its life - but can the villagers, and Jess, hold on to the thing they love the most?

War Memorial Library (Hutt City) - Large Print - BRI - Available

Evie [large print] / Julia Stoneham.

Author: Stoneham, Julia, 1933-
Large print edition.
Published: Oxford : Isis, 2016.
304 pages ; 24 cm.
Isis large print
Eighteen-year-old Evie arrives at Post Stone Farm in December 1944, and choosing to join the Land Army, she longs for quiet days. The other land girls have already formed close friendships, and Evie barely makes a ripple when trying to blend in. But it is here she falls in love with Giorgio, an Italian POW. All this changes one June evening when Corporal Norman Clark arrives at the farm and a startling revelation thrusts Evie into the spotlight. As the full history of her tragic life becomes known to the valley people, many of them become deeply and in some cases, violently, involved in overcoming the obstacles which lie between Evie and the happiness and the enduring love she deserves.

Eastbourne Library (Hutt City) - Large Print - STO - Available

Farthing [large print] / Jo Walton.

Author: Walton, Jo
Large print edition.
Published: Leicester : Thorpe, 2016.
384 pages ; 24 cm.
Small change ; 1.
Isis large print
In a world where England has agreed a peace with Nazi Germany, one small change can carry a huge cost... Eight years after they overthrew Churchill and led Britain into a separate peace with Hitler, the upper-crust families of the "Farthing set" gather for a weekend retreat. But idyll becomes nightmare when Sir James Thirkie is found murdered, a yellow Star of David pinned to his chest. When her Jewish husband is framed for the crime, estranged Farthing scion Lucy soon finds herself plunged into a fraught and perilous world in this all-too-believable and dark alternative history.

Eastbourne Library (Hutt City) - Large Print - WAL - Available

The temporary gentleman [large print] / Sebastian Barry.

Author: Barry, Sebastian, 1955-
Large print edition.
Published: Oxford : Isis, 2016.
272 pages ; 24 cm.
Isis large print
Jack McNulty is a "temporary gentleman", an Irishman whose commission in the British army in WWII was never permanent. In 1957 he sets out to write his story... He is an ordinary man, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has worked and wandered around the world - as a soldier, an engineer, a UN observer - and has had a strange and tumultuous marriage. Mai Kirwan was a great beauty with a vivid mind, but an elusive and mysterious figure too. Jack married her, but in time she slipped from his grasp. This is a heart-breaking portrait of one man's life...

War Memorial Library (Hutt City) - Large Print - BAR - Available

White lies [large print] / Stephen Leather.

Author: Leather, Stephen
Large print edition.
Published: Oxford : Isis, 2016.
432 pages ; 24 cm.
Spider Shepherd ; 11.
Isis large print
Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line - for his friends and for his job with MI5. So when one of his former apprentices is kidnapped in Pakistan, Shepherd doesn't hesitate to join a rescue mission. But when the rescue plan goes horribly wrong, Shepherd ends up in the hands of al-Qaeda terrorists. His SAS training is of little help as his captors torture him. Shepherd's MI5 controller Charlotte Button is determined to get her man out of harm's way, but to do that she's going to have to break all the rules. Her only hope is to bring in America's finest - the elite SEALs who carried out Operation Neptune Spear - in a do-or-die operation to rescue the captives.

Eastbourne Library (Hutt City) - Large Print - LEA - Available

Around the village green [large print] : The heart-warming memoir of a World War II childhood / Dot May Dunn.

Author: Dunn, D. M. (Dot M.)
Large print edition.
Published: Oxford : Isis, 2016.
214 pages ; 24 cm.
Isis large print
It's 1939 and little Dot May Dunn is playing with her brothers in their quiet Derbyshire village. The grown-ups' talk of war means little to Dot, but village life is starting to change. When a prisoner of war camp is built close to Dot's village, and a Yankee base is stationed nearby, Dot makes friends with the most unlikely of soldiers. But her friendships are threatened when telegrams start to arrive in the village and the real impact of war bears heavily on this close-knit mining community. Dot's childhood memoir shares the universals of innocence, love, loss and friendships.

War Memorial Library (Hutt City) - Large Print Non-fiction - 940.53161 DUN - Available

Ha'penny [large print] / Jo Walton.

Author: Walton, Jo
Large print edition.
Published: Leicester : Thorpe, 2016.
384 pages ; 24 cm.
Small change ; 2.
Isis large print
In a world where England has agreed a peace with Nazi Germany, one small change can carry a huge cost... Following the Farthing Peace, England appears to have all but completed an inexorable descent into a fascist dictatorship. However, when a bomb explodes in a London suburb, resistance seems to be underway. The brilliant but tormented Inspector Carmichael of Scotland Yard is assigned to the case and uncovers a conspiracy of peers and communists to murder the prime minister and his ally, Adolf Hitler...

Eastbourne Library (Hutt City) - Large Print - WAL - Available

Pagan spring [large print] / G. M. Malliet.

Author: Malliet, G. M., 1951-
Large print edition.
Published: Oxford : Isis, 2016.
352 pages ; 24 cm.
Max Tudor ; 3.
Isis large print
Vicar Max Tudor, revelling in his new-found personal happiness with Awena Owen, feels that life at the moment holds no greater challenge than writing his Easter sermon, and looks forward to a dinner that welcomes newcomers to the village, including West End dramatist Thaddeus Bottle and his mousey wife Melinda. But when one of the dinner guests is found dead in the wee small hours, Max knows a poisonous atmosphere has once again enveloped the village of Nether Monkslip. Connections to long-ago crimes help Max unravel the clues - but will he be too late to restore lasting peace to the village?

Wainuiomata Library (Hutt City) - Large Print - MAL - Available

A curious career [large print] / Lynn Barber.

Author: Barber, Lynn, 1944-
Large print edition.
Published: Oxford : Isis, 2016.
approximately 224 pages ; 24 cm.
Isis large print
A Curious Career takes us from Lynn's early years as a journalist at Penthouse to her later more eminent role interrogating a huge cross-section of celebrities. It is full of glorious anecdotes - the interview with Salvador Dali that ended up lasting four days, or the drinking session with Shane MacGowan. It also contains eye-opening transcripts, such as her infamous interview with the hilarious and spectacularly rude Marianne Faithfull. A wonderfully frank and funny memoir by Britain's greatest and most ferocious interviewer, A Curious Career is also a fascinating window into the lives of celebrities and the changing world of journalism.

Taita Library (Hutt City) - Large Print Non-fiction - 070.43092 BAR - Available

Tempting fate [large print] / Jane Green.

Author: Green, Jane, 1968-
Large print edition.
Published: Oxford : Isis, 2016.
approximately 352 pages ; 24 cm.
Isis large print
In 20 years of marriage Gabby has never doubted her love for Elliott - even when he refused to give her the one thing she still wants most of all. But now their two daughters are growing up, Gabby feels restless. And then she meets Matt... Intoxicated by this young, handsome and successful man, Gabby is momentarily blind to what she stands to lose. And in one reckless moment she destroys all that she holds dear. Consumed by regret, Gabby does everything she can to repair her mistake. But are some betrayals too great to forgive?

War Memorial Library (Hutt City) - Large Print - GRE - Available

Ritual in death and missing in death [large print] / J. D. Robb.

Author: Robb, J. D., 1950-
Large print edition.
Published: Oxford : Isis, 2016.
224 pages ; 24 cm.
In death
Isis large print
A duo of two superb short stories featuring celebrated lieutenant, Eve DallasRitual in Death: When a naked, knife-wielding man who thinks he has killed someone crashes a glamorous ball she's attending, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is almost relieved. The clues point towards ritual murder, but Eve knows there is nothing supernatural about a deadly lust for power...Missing in Death: Aboard the Staten Island ferry, a tourist sees something she shouldn't have - and soon no one can find her. But if she didn't jump, and she's not on board, where is she? Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her team know that all the answers lie in just what was seen on that ferry...

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The heroes' welcome [large print] / Louisa Young.

Author: Young, Louisa
Large print edition.
Published: Oxford : Isis, 2016.
approximately 368 pages ; 24 cm.
Isis large print
April 1919. The Great War has ended and childhood sweethearts Nadine Waveney and Riley Purefoy are married. Riley is wounded and disfigured and they long for a marriage made of love and passion rather than dependence and pity. Riley's former CO Major Peter Locke, his hysterical wife and the young son they barely know attempt to navigate family life, but are confounded by the ghosts and memories of war. Despite all this, there is the glimmer of promise in the distance: Rose Locke, Peter's cousin and Riley's former nurse, finds that independence might be hers for the taking, after all.

War Memorial Library (Hutt City) - Large Print - YOU - Available

A Cornish stranger [large print] / Liz Fenwick.

Author: Fenwick, Liz
Large print edition.
Published: Leicester : Thorpe, 2016.
384 p. ;
Isis large print
There's an old Cornish saying: "Save a stranger from the sea, he'll turn your enemy..." When her reclusive grandmother Jaunty becomes too frail to live alone, Gabriella Blythe moves into the remote waterside cabin on Frenchman's Creek which has been her grandmother's home for decades. Once a celebrated artist, Jaunty's days are coming to a close but she is still haunted by events in her past, particularly the sinking of a ship during the war. Everything is fine until a handsome stranger arrives in a storm, seeking help. Fin has been left a family legacy: a delicate watercolour of a cabin which leads him to this beautiful stretch of Cornish water. As Fin begins to pick at the clues of the painting, he is drawn into the lives of Gabe and Jaunty, unravelling a remarkable story of identity and betrayal...

War Memorial Library (Hutt City) - Large Print - FEN - Available

The last British Dambuster [large print] / George 'Johnny' Johnson.

Author: Johnson, George
Large print edition.
Published: Leicester : Thorpe, 2016.
352 pages ;
Isis large print
On 16 May 1943, Johnny Johnson, alongside 132 specially selected comrades, took off from Scampton airbase in Lincolnshire. For six weeks they had been trained to fulfil one mission that was near impossible: to destroy three dams deep within Germany's Ruhr Valley. It was a daring task but, against the odds, Johnny and his crew survived. Sadly, 53 comrades did not. For the first time, Johnny relives every moment of that fatal night - and the devastating aftermath. He recalls with unique wit and insight the difficult training conducted in secrecy, the race against time to release the bombs, and the sheer strength and bravery shown by a small unit faced with great adversity and uncertainty. Embodying a whole squadron, and leaving a lasting legacy for generations to come, Johnny's story is like no other.

Taita Library (Hutt City) - Large Print Non-fiction - 920 JOH - Available

The death's head chess club [large print] / John Donoghue.

Author: Donoghue, John, 1956-
Large print edition.
Published: Leicester : Thorpe, 2016.
464 p. ; 24 cm.
Isis large print
SS-Obersturmfuhrer Paul Meissner arrives at Auschwitz fresh from fighting on the Russian Front. After being badly wounded, he is fit only for administrative duty, his first and most pressing task being to improve flagging camp morale among the officers and enlisted men. So he sets up a chess club, which thrives as under-the-table bets are made on the results of the games. Meissner learns that chess is also played by the prisoners and is intrigued by the rumour of a Jewish watchmaker, Emil Clement, who is "unbeatable". When Meissner's superiors demand that he demonstrate German superiority by pitting this undefeated Jew against the best Nazi players, an unusual friendship is formed. And as more and more games are played, the stakes rise, and the two men find their fates deeply entwined.

War Memorial Library (Hutt City) - Large Print - DON - Available

The best medicine : [large print] / the true story of a nurse who became a doctor in the 1950s / Georgie Edwards.

Author: Edwards, Georgie, 1927-
Large print edition.
Published: Leicester : Thorpe, 2016.
240 p. ; 24 cm.
Isis large print
In 1949, Staff Nurse Georgie Edwards is asked to chaperone medical students undertaking their practical exams, when suddenly the penny drops. Georgie wants to learn to diagnose and treat, too. Against the odds, she wins herself a place to study medicine at London's St Bartholomew's Hospital. Once there, she sets about becoming not a consultant who "sweeps by", but a doctor who listens and cares. Yet Georgie wants to fall in love and start a family as well as have a career. Is this one dream too many for a woman in the 1950s?

War Memorial Library (Hutt City) - Large Print Non-fiction - 610.92 EDW - Available

The room [large print] / Jonas Karlsson.

Author: Karlsson, Jonas, 1971-
Large print edition.
Published: Leicester : Thorpe, 2016.
176 p. ; 24 cm.
Isis large print
The Authority looks favourably upon meticulousness, efficiency and ambition. Bjorn has all of this in spades, but it's only in the room that he can really shine. And it's only in the room that he finds harmony, an escape from the triviality of the workplace. Unfortunately, his colleagues see things differently. In fact, they don't appear to see the room at all - eventually leaving Bjorn convinced that they are conducting some sort of psychological warfare against him. But who is right? Is the room a figment of an overactive imagination, the spectre of a mental illness? Or is there something more mysterious going on?

Naenae Library (Hutt City) - Large Print - KAI - Available

The man from perfect [large print] / Andrea Semple.

Author: Semple, Andrea
Large print edition.
Published: Leicester : Thorpe, 2016.
368 p. ; 24 cm.
Isis large print
Having jettisoned her ex-boyfriend Rob the Slob, Ella barely remembers filling out a quiz about her ideal man in GLOSS magazine at her friend Maddie's behest. She definitely DOESN'T remember being told it was a competition - or that Maddie had sent Ella's answers off... So it's rather a shock when she finds out she's won her "ideal man", courtesy of the Perfect Agency. And once the gorgeous James Master, Mr. Perfect Himself, arrives on her doorstep, then spontaneous trips to Rome, declarations of love, and gourmet sex all become part of Ella's daily routine. However, as "romance fatigue" sets in, and Rob starts to change his slobbish ways to win her back, Ella remembers that she asked for a man who will do ANYTHING to keep her...

Taita Library (Hutt City) - Large Print - SEM - Available

Watch me [large print] / James Carol.

Author: Carol, James, 1969-
Large print edition.
Published: Leicester : Thorpe, 2016.
424 pages ;
Jefferson Winter ; 2.
Isis large print
Ex-FBI profiler Jefferson Winter has taken a new case in sunny Louisiana, where the only thing more intense than the heat is a killer on the loose in the small town of Eagle Creek. Sam Galloway, a prominent lawyer from one of Eagle Creek's most respected families, has been murdered. All the sheriff's department has to go on, however, is a film of Galloway that shows him being burned alive. Enter Jefferson Winter, whose expertise is serial criminals. But in a town where secrets are rife and history has a way of repeating itself, can Winter solve the case before someone else dies?

Naenae Library (Hutt City) - Large Print - CAR - Available

Trust no one [large print] / Jayne Ann Krentz.

Author: Krentz, Jayne Ann
Large print edition.
Published: Leicester : Thorpe, 2016.
384 pages ;
Isis large print
It's no coincidence when Grace Elland finds a vodka bottle next to the lifeless body of her boss, motivational speaker Sprague Witherspoon. The bottle is a terrifying - and deliberate - reminder of the horrors of her past. Grace retreats to her hometown to regroup and finds herself on the world's worst blind date with venture capitalist Julius Arkwright, an ex-Marine who lives to make money. However, he's the perfect man to help Grace when it becomes clear she is being stalked. As Witherspoon's financial empire continues to crumble around them, taking a deadly toll, Julius will help her step into her past to uncover a devious plan to destroy not only Grace, but everyone around her...

Moera Library (Hutt City) - Large Print - KRE - Available

Haunted in death [large print] / J. D. Robb.

Author: Robb, J. D., 1950-
Large print edition.
Published: Leicester : Thorpe, 2016.
256 pages ;
Isis large print
Lieutenant Eve Dallas doesn't believe in ghosts. But in HAUNTED IN DEATH, when a very recent corpse shows up in an abandoned nightclub, alongside the bones of famous missing singer Bobbie Bray, everyone is spooked. Did Bobbie's ghost finally get her revenge, or is there a more earthly explanation? While in ETERNITY IN DEATH, when notorious It-girl Tiara Kent is found dead in her plush Manhattan apartment, the murder looks to everyone like a vampire attack - everyone but the practical Lieutenant Eve Dallas. Discovering Tiara's secret lover, Eve and her team are led on a chase into the darkest corners of the city and deep into their own fears.

Naenae Library (Hutt City) - Large Print - ROB - Available

The make-up girl [large print] / Andrea Semple.

Author: Semple, Andrea
Large print edition.
Published: Leicester : Thorpe, 2016.
352 pages ;
Isis large print
Faith works in a fabulous PR company, has loads of gorgeous, glamorous friends and, best of all, a handsome boyfriend. He never wants to watch the football, and thinks Faith is the most beautiful girl in the whole world. The only problem is, he doesn't exist. Faith has made him up, just like she's made up her perfect life. It's what she does. She's a single, lonely, low-paid make-up girl, and it's far too late to tell her family the depressing truth. Except that her sister has just got engaged, which means she's finally run out of reasons why her family can't meet her perfect, imaginary man. It's time to turn fantasy into reality...

Wainuiomata Library (Hutt City) - Large Print - SEM - Available

The bucket [large print] : memories of an inattentive childhood / Allan Ahlberg.

Author: Ahlberg, Allan
Large print edition.
Published: Leicester : Thorpe, 2016.
136 p. ;
Isis large print
In 1938 Allan Ahlberg was picked up in London by his new adoptive mother and taken back to Oldbury in the Black Country. Now one of the most successful children's book writers in the world, here Allan writes of an oddly enchanted childhood lived out in an industrial town; of a tough and fiercely protective mother; of fearsome bacon slicers; of "fugitive memories, the ones that shimmer on the edges of things: trapdoors in the grass, Dad's dancing overalls". Of "two mothers, two fathers and me like a parcel or a baton (or a hot potato!) passed between them". Using a mix of prose and poetry, supported by new drawings by his daughter Jessica and old photographs, THE BUCKET brings to life the childhood that inspired Allan's classic picture books.

Taita Library (Hutt City) - Large Print Non-fiction - 920 AHL - Available

Everything I never told you [large print] / Celeste Ng.

Author: Ng, Celeste
Large print edition.
Published: Leicester : Thorpe, 2016.
304 p. ;
Isis large print
Lydia was the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee. Her parents had been determined that she would fulfil the dreams they were unable to pursue themselves, though she had also been under pressures that had nothing to do with growing up. Her father is an American born of first-generation Chinese immigrants, which makes him and his children conspicuous in any setting, especially in 1970s small-town Ohio. When Lydia's body is found in the local lake, James is consumed by guilt, while Marilyn is determined to make someone accountable, no matter what the cost. Lydia's older brother, Nathan, is convinced that local bad boy Jack is somehow involved. But it's the youngest in the family, Hannah, who observes far more than anyone realises, and who may be the only one who knows what really happened...

War Memorial Library (Hutt City) - Large Print - NG - Available

The ex-factor [large print] / Andrea Semple.

Author: Semple, Andrea
Large print edition.
Published: Leicester : Thorpe, 2016.
320 p. ;
Isis large print
Martha Seymore is the go-to girl who gets paid to sympathise with the cheated and jilted, the under-sexed and over-attached readers of GLOSS magazine. But when she finds out about her boyfriend's one-night stand, she starts to doubt whether she really has any of the answers. Not only does she have to admit to a failed relationship to her colleagues, but also to her old frenemy Desdemona, who is newly engaged to Martha's very first boyfriend. Realising she's just as clueless as her hapless readers, and tired of always doing the right thing, Martha decides it's time to ignore her own advice: she's going for what - and who - she wants, even if it's wrong...

SCL (Hutt City) - Large Print - SEM - Available

Indian summer [large print] / Marcia Willett.

Author: Willett, Marcia
Large print edition.
Published: Leicester : Thorpe, 2016.
304 p. ;
Isis large print
For renowned actor Mungo, his quiet home village in Devon provides the perfect retreat. Close by are his brother and his wife, and the rural location makes his home the ideal getaway for his old friends in London. Among those is Kit, who comes to stay for the summer, bringing with her a letter from her first and only love, Jake, as well as a heart in turmoil. Years have passed since Kit and Jake last saw each other, and now he has written to Kit asking to meet again. As the summer unfolds, secrets are uncovered that will shatter the sleepy community, and even tear a family apart. But those involved soon realize that the only way to move forward might be to confront the past...

Taita Library (Hutt City) - Large Print - WIL - Available

Celebrity in death [large print] / J. D. Robb.

Author: Robb, J. D., 1950-
Large print edition.
Published: Oxford : Isis, 2015.
464 pages ; 24 cm.
In death ; 34.
Isis large print
Lieutenant Eve Dallas is panicking - but she's not at a crime scene. Forced to attend a celeb-packed party for a new movie based on her most famous case, she is surrounded by actors who look like everyone in her life. Then brutal reality crashes through the sparkly fatade. There's been a murder. The obnoxious actress playing Eve's partner, Peabody, has been found face down in the rooftop pool. It's hard to find anyone who didn't have a motive for killing her, but Eve must fight to keep a clear head and stop a calculated killer.

SCL (Hutt City) - Large Print - ROB - Available

Gardens of stone [large print] / Stephen Grady.

Author: Grady, Stephen, 1925-
Large print edition.
Published: Oxford : Isis, 2015.
528 pages ; 24 cm.
Isis large print
Northern France, 1939. Fourteen-year-old Stephen and his friend are collecting souvenirs from strafed convoys and crashed Messerschmitts. But their world turns dark when arrested and imprisoned for sabotage and threatened with deportation or the firing squad. Upon his release, Stephen, only 16, is recruited by the French Resistance. Growing up under the threat of imminent betrayal, he learns the arts of clandestine warfare, and - in a moment that haunts him still - how to kill... An extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy.

Wainuiomata Library (Hutt City) - Large Print Non-fiction - 940.5336 GRA - Available

The river of fire [large print] / Patrick Easter.

Author: Easter, Patrick
Large print edition.
Published: Oxford : Isis, 2015.
360 pages ; 24 cm.
Tom Pascoe ; 2
Isis large print
1799. Captain Tom Pascoe of the Marine Police uncovers a grisly secret: the bodies of two men entombed in the crew cabin of a sunken lugger. Suspicion falls on a third member of the crew seen fleeing the scene. Against the backdrop of a nation at war with Napoleon, Pascoe uncovers the existence of French agents in London who'll stop at nothing to undermine England's position, and finds his own life under threat as he digs deeper into the case...

War Memorial Library (Hutt City) - Large Print - EAS - Available

Some unholy war [large print] / Terence Strong.

Author: Strong, Terence
Large print edition.
Published: Oxford : Isis, 2015.
544 pages ; 24 cm.
Isis large print
Dave Aston had been a soldier, a member of the elite British SAS. Until that final mission into bandit country. That was when his luck ran out... Now, he's returned home to an alien civilian life. Everything is lost: his marriage, his home and his self-respect. Down and out, with a broken body and a damaged soul, on the cold, mean streets of his homeland. There he discovers that the astonishing circle of deceit is complete. With new friends amongst the down-and-outs, he discovers a trail of drug-dealing and murder that winds all the way back to the Taliban. But is he just too far down to fight back against a new evil force at work in his own back yard?

Taita Library (Hutt City) - Large Print - STR - Available