Collection: Large Print Adult Non Fiction Paperback

20 leading historians recreate key moments in European history and imagine what it would have been like to witness them first-hand. Tom Holland, John Elliott, John Julius Norwich, Margaret MacMillan and John Keegan, among others, share their thoughts.

In his first book written as Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger shares a personal re-evaluation of the figure at the very centre of Christian faith.

Johnnie Walker's career as a top radio DJ has spanned four controversial decades, from the pirate Radio Caroline in the mid-sixties to his current drive time slot on Radio 2. This is his story.

'The Lodger' is an original literary detective story, and an entirely new biographical take on Shakespeare's life, focusing on the years of his resident on Silver Street, 1602-1604.

John Alexander MacKenzie recollects his childhood in a West Coast fishing village between the wars. He writes of schooldays, children's entertainments, Sunday School picnics, Mallaig and the railway, early motoring, the Big Pier, herring fishing and the Wee Pier.

The story of the plane crash at Munich airport in 1958 which killed eight Manchester United players as well as journalists, supporters and aircrew. David Hall also tells of the immediate aftermath of the crash and its effect on the city of Manchester.

When Joe & his girlfriend decide to trade in their life in a Lancashire fish market to run a bar in the Tenerife sunshine, they anticipate a paradise of sea, sand & siestas. This story talks about the morning-afters as well as the night-befores.

Helen-Alice Dear was only 15 when she left London to visit Bulgaria. Soon, she found herself unable to leave & struggling to survive. Her marriage to a Bulgarian man bore her four children. Despite the hardships, Helen refused to give up hope & managed to protect & raise her family. This is the t...

Having survived their voyage to Carcassonne, you would expect pensioners Terry and Monica Darlington and their whippet, Jim, to retire to a comfortable corner of their favourite public house. But no, they looked to the New World for their extraordinary new adventure.

Hank Adlam began his naval flying career in 1941, his first operational posting was to the newly-formed No. 890 Squadron. The squadron's first operational role was to protect a convoy sailing from New York and bound for Greenock. This text contains Hank's reflections on his time as a naval fighte...