Collection: Large Print Adult Non Fiction Paperback

'Blue' is a memoir of crime and calamity, of adventure and achievement, of friendship and failure, of laughter and loss, of the best and the worst of humanity, of serious illness and slow recovery. With searing honesty, it offers an immensely moving and personal insight into what it is to be a po...

Robinson presents the inspiring story of the first young women who overcame all the odds to get their education & attend university. Using the words of the women themselves, this book charts the fight for & expansion of higher education for women.

Bob Dixon spent years 'on the beat' as a police constable in the Metropolitan Police Force in the early 1960s, witnessing all manner of incidents, from the serious to the ludicrous. Spending the majority of his time in London's infamous East End dealing with drunks, fatalities on the road, domest...

This is the story of 'the real' Bodyguard, Lee Sansum, ex-Royal Military Policeman, martial arts champion, private military contractor and expert in close protection. In being part of Mohamed and Dodi al-Fayed's protection team, Lee also had to protect the most famous woman in the world, Princess...

Jennifer Saunders' brilliant comic creations have brought joy to millions for three decades. From 'Comic Strip' to 'Comic Relief', from Bolly-swilling Edina in 'Absolutely Fabulous' to Meryl Streep in 'Mamma Mia', her characters are household names. This is her funny, touching and disarmingly hon...

Two tales of a city: The historical race to reach one of the world's most mythologised places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend.

This title follows the ebbs and flows of Sarah Henshaw's journey as she sought to make her vision of a floating bookshop, The Book Barge, a reality. Business wasn't always easy, so one May morning she set off for six months chugging the length and breadth of the country. Books were bartered for f...

Why do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In this inventive and highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge Carrion takes his reader on a journey around the world, via its bookshops. His travels take him to Shakespeare & Co in Paris, Wells in Winchester, Green Apple Book...

Trevor Noah is the host of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah , where he gleefully provides America with its nightly dose of serrated satire. He is a light-footed but cutting observer of the relentless absurdities of politics, nationalism and race - and in particular the craziness of his own young l...

This is the story of a 19 year old who joined the FANY then trained as a radar mechanic during the Second World War. Marjorie Inkster offers lively descriptions of the gun sites, the people working on them and in the Officers' Mess, of daily work practices, air raids and the history of the fast d...