Collection: Large Print Adult Non Fiction Paperback

In 1954, a young television presenter was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to travel the world finding rare and elusive animals for London Zoo's collection, and to film the expeditions for the BBC. His name was David Attenborough, and the programme, 'Zoo Quest', not only heralded the start...

The story of Anne Frank's step-sister, and her struggle for survival in Auschwitz and beyond.

With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realise what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was - truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.

Morton Storm, a Danish convert to Islam, was a trusted al-Qaeda associate when he was offered $250,000 by the CIA to find a wife for Awlaki in an effort to track him down. Storm turned to Facebook and found 'Aminah'. He then orchestrated an exchange of previously unseen video messages between the...

This text recounts the author's life in Liverpool from 1945 to 1962, when he was growing up with his sister, parents and grandparents in a small terraced house in Aintree. It is accompanied by an atmospheric selection of photographs reflecting the England then.

Rich in anecdote and never short of forthright views, Sir Alex Ferguson's compelling story starts in Govan, a shipbuilding district of Glasgow: always honest and revealing, he reflects on his epic journey, and a managerial career that embraced unprecedented European success for Aberdeen and 27 tr...

Several years ago, Diana Athill accepted that she could no longer live entirely independently, and moved to a retirement home in Highgate. There, she found herself released from the daily anxieties of caring for her own property, and free to settle into her remaining years. From this vantage poin...

Blur bassist Alex James moved to a very big house in the country and set up a farm. Swapping hedonistic nights in the Groucho for early morning starts, this book details James' transformation from rock god to cheesemaker.

Annie is the eldest daughter of a laundress in Acton, London, raised to keep the rich families of Kensington spick and span. As she grows up in poverty in the 1920s and 1930s, her life centres on the family business, working long hours of hard physical labour. When she's not in the laundry she's ...

This title tells how Sgt Bill Bailey arrived in Cairo in 1942 as a new recruit to the RAF. Within hours of his arrival he was sent on his first bombing mission as second pilot in a 104 Squadron Wellington. The aircraft was hit by enemy gunfire and eventually crashed, leaving Bill to fend for hims...