Collection: Large Print Adult Non Fiction Paperback

Drawing on individual stories to illustrate its broader arguments, this book examines the reasons for the fall of one of the most progressive governments in 20th-century Europe, and the rise of the most terrifying. It focuses on the global dimension of the Nazi phenomenon, as a part of a widespre...

A dramatic account of the 33 miners of the San Jose mine in Chile, in official collaboration with 'The 33' and with the full cooperation of the Chilean authorities behind the daring rescue operation.

Andrew Marr turns his attention to the monarch - and to the monarchy, chronicling the Queen's pivotal role at the centre of the state, which is largely hidden from the public gaze, and making a strong case for the institution itself.

Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost! In these ...

One girl's personal account of the Holocaust, written in Amsterdam between 1942 and 1944. At first containing the typical activities of a teenage girl - school, friends, boys - Anne's diary reflects both the horrors of Nazi persecution and her growing maturity, as she relates thoughts on humanity...

What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the 'Oxford English Dictionary'. The 'Oxford English Dictionary' has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men; its longest-serving editor, James Murray, devoted 36 yea...

In the last months of the war, Hitler ordered the poisoning, blocking, and wrecking of all ports across Europe; the destruction of all industries, railroads, bridges, utilities supplies, archives and museums in Europe; and the destruction of the most beautiful city in the world: Paris. Thanks to ...

Alighting on such random topics as Mike Read's musical of Oscar Wilde, fat comedians, the banking crisis and the evil phenomenon that is Jedward, this is a collection from The Times columns of Frank Skinner.

What is it really like to be a brain surgeon, to hold someone's life in your hands, to drill down into the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially life-saving operation when it all goes wrong? In this powerful, gripping and...

Doctors Hugh and Alice Alport are an English couple who went to Northern Ireland on a short-term contract - several decades ago. In 'Doctor! Doctor!' they recall how they have forged a lifelong relationship with the rural community they served.