Collection: Large Print Adult Non Fiction Paperback

Nurses have never been more important. We benefit from their expertise in our hospitals and beyond: in our schools, on our streets, in prisons, hospices and care homes. When we feel most alone, nurses remind us that we are not alone at all. In 'The Courage to Care', Christie Watson reveals the re...

A memoir of brutality, heroism and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of the Second World War.

'Critical' is an intelligent, compelling and profoundly insightful journey into the world of intensive care medicine and the lives of people who have forever been changed by it. Being critically ill means one or more of your vital organs have failed - this could be your lungs, your heart, your ki...

Standing at the crossroads - the Mississippi crossroads of Robert Johnson and the devil's infamous meeting - Mark Radcliffe found himself facing his own personal crunch point. Aged 60, he had just mourned the death of his father, only to be handed a diagnosis of mouth and throat cancer. This mome...

Following Lady Jane Grey's journey from the deadly intrigues of her childhood that led inexorably through to her trial and execution at the age of 17, Nicola Tallis explores new evidence that brings fresh insight to the life of the Nine Days Queen. She reveals the human and emotional story that h...

Over the years, the story of Robinson Crusoe has been abridged, imitated, parodied, dramatized and even turned into opera. But where did Crusoe come from and what is the secret of his endurance? 'Crusoe' explores the intertwined lives of Daniel Defoe and Robert Knox and the book that emerged from...

Lynn Barber, by her own admission, has always suffered from a compelling sense of nosiness. An exceptionally inquisitive child she constantly questioned everyone she knew about intimate details of their lives. This talent for nosiness, coupled with her unusual lack of the very English fear of soc...

Anna Pavord brings together 72 pieces on all aspects of gardening. It includes everything from what to do in each month and how to get the best from flowers and plants, through reflections on the weather and old gardening clothes.

A DNA test suggesting she shared some genetics with the Sami people, the indigenous inhabitants of the Arctic tundra, tapped into Laura Galloway's wanderlust. An affair with a Sami reindeer herder led her to abandon her high-flying New York life for a fresh start in the tiny town of Kautokeino. W...

The Dambusters raid is a well-known event of World War 2. Here, bestselling author Max Arthur has collected together first-hand accounts of the preparation, practise, organisation and the raid itself.