Collection: Large Print Adult Non Fiction Paperback

Glamorous, ambitious and headstrong, Doreen Lawrence entertained audiences in Britain throughout the Blitz and from 1942 the troops abroad in Africa, India and Burma. This text tells her story.

In 1940, at the French port of Dunkirk, more than 300,000 trapped Allied troops were dramatically rescued from destruction at the hands of Nazi Germany by an extraordinary seaborne evacuation. The true history of the soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians involved in the nine-day skirmish has pa...

While leading a double life would seem to be the exclusive domain of psychopaths and undercover agents, thousands of 'regular people' keep extraordinary secrets from those closest to them. 'Duped' is an investigation of compulsive liars - and how they fool their loved ones - drawing on Abby Ellin...

Dusty Springfield was one of our greatest pop singers. From 60s hits like 'I Only Want To Be With You', 'Son of a Preacher Man' and 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me' to her 80s collaboration with the Pet Shop Boys and beyond, she was a musical pioneer and the very essence of authentic white sou...

A tongue-in-cheek tale based on the author's 15-year stint as a postman. By turns humorous and disrespectful, the author takes us on a journey into the world of the Royal Mail, introducing us to the eccentricities of its arcane working practices, its employees, its customers and their dogs.

When Edward Enfield was a lad, he was put on a ship and sent to Canada to avoid the Blitz. After three years in Ottawa, he returned to England and was sent off to boarding school. From there he entered Oxford and began his National Service. While vowing he did not want to work a job that took him...

On 1st July 1916, after a five-day bombardment, 11 British and 5 French divisions launched their long-awaited 'Big Push' on German positions on high ground above the Rivers Ancre and Somme on the Western Front. Some ground was gained, but at a terrible cost. In killing-grounds whose names are ind...

With a glittering career spanning more than five decades and starring roles which have earned him two Oscars, a knighthood, and an iconic place in the Hollywood pantheon, Michael Caine looks back over it all.

Many years after the death of her grandmother, Lulah Ellender inherited a curious object - a book of handwritten lists. Elisabeth's lists seemed rather ordinary - shopping lists, items to be packed for a foreign trip, a tally of the eggs laid by her hens. But from these everyday fragments, Lulah ...

Sir Ranulph Fiennes is rightly celebrated across the globe for his many extraordinary achievements in polar exploration. What many do not know is prior to undertaking a career surviving whatever the elements can throw at him, his life and the drive within him to succeed, was influenced and shaped...