Collection: Large Print Non Fiction

Here, from one of the bestselling, best-loved romantic novelists of our time is her own story.

Sage brings alive her childhood in post-war provincial Britain.

Moving account of the Allied efforts in Dardanelles after the defeat.

Author's experience following these birds on their annual migration across the American continent.

Why would an unfit, fifty-something Englishwoman embark on a solo walk across France from La Rochelle on the west coast to Lake Geneva over the Swiss border? With no experience of hiking or camping, Susie Kelly found out the hard way that it is possible to be overloaded and ill-prepared at the sa...

When Beezle the Dalmatian first entered Trevor Grove's North London household, he was jsut a scrap of spotty fur. Now he runs the place.

From the early 1880's to the end of his life in 1917, Buffalo Bill Cody was a famous "larger than life" figure. Annie Oakley, the "slip of a girl" from Ohio who could (and did) outshoot anybody became the most celebrated star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. In this sweeping dual biography, Larr...

Inspired by Lucy Pinney's popular column for THE TIMES, this is an affectionate romp through the highs and lows of country living. A funny, honest and affectionate memoir of a life spent learning to know and love the countryside and those who live off its land. From the opening account of her rio...

Ever since Annie Hawes got together with Ciccio de Gilio, his Calabrian family have spoken of their homeland as an earthly paradise, of wild nights dancing the tarantella, of almond milk, of honey cakes and amaro. Now, at last, Annie and Ciccio are travelling down to see the ancestral home for th...

Already a member of the Territorial Army, Roy was mobilised in 1939 and joined the British Expeditionary Force in France. After three days and two nights on the Dunkirk beaches he was evacuated back to England.He was then sent to North Africa and a chance meeting resulted in his transferring to t...

This is the story of the Pilgrim fathers who set sail on the Mayflower and the bloody battle they ultimately waged against the Native Americans. Behind the quaint and pious version of the Mayflower story usually taught in American primary schools is a tumultuous tale of violence, subterfuge and e...

Barely out of his teens, W. R. Garrett found himself in North Africa on his way to join the Eighth Army. The former country boy, with idealistic views of why he was fighting, couldn't possibly have known the implications. He was to learn - quickly. He and his comrades didn't understand, until it ...

Since she founded the Farmers' and Country Bureau from her farmhouse in the Peak District more than twenty years ago, Patricia Warren has been helping love to blossom the length and breadth of rural England. A born matchmaker, here she brings us the stories of love and romance that she has helped...

Bermondsey was a thriving place. And it was here that Thomas Hicks, later to be known as Tommy Steele, was born to Darbo and Betty. Tommy brings to life with extraordinary vividness his Bermondsey childhood, and also what it was like to live through the devastation of the Blitz, The Hicks househo...

Lancaster pilot Victor Wood's aircraft arrived too early over Gelsenkirchen when the target was shrouded in darkness and the Main Force miles behind. His bomber was suddenly struck with terrifying force by flak and turned upside down. An engine was on fire, the unconscious mid-upper gunner, slump...

In Over to Candleford, the second part of the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, Laura's family begins to spend part of each summer with cousins in the nearby town of Candleford, which seems to her a very large and grand place. As her schooldays come to an end young Laura becomes a regular bookworm...

Georgette Heyer is one of the most beloved historical novelists of our time, yet her private life was inaccessible to any but her nearest friends and relatives. This biography opens a window into Georgette Heyer's world.

General Adult. Draws on more than one hundred interviews with the iconic country-music artist and his intimates to trace his rise from humble Depression-era roots to one of the genres most famous figures, in a profile that covers such topics as his first performance at age four, his education in...

On 16 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster bomber crews gathered in the dark at a remote RAF station in Lincolnshire for a mission of extraordinary daring - a night raid on three crucial dams deep in the heart of Germany. To have any chance of success, the raiders would have to fly across occupied Europe...

It was a few bars of Heartbreak Hotel, heard briefly through the open window of a car, that captured his imagination. The young Cliff Richard and his friends were desperate to find out whose voice they had found so exciting. Once he discovered Elvis Presley, Cliff knew what he wanted to do with h...

Parachuting, running internet businesses, singing in rock groups at the age of 101 - some older people have never been so active. So why are others being so badly treated? Now Julia Neuberger asks why older people are increasingly marginalised, mistreated and patronised; allowed to die in hospita...

From the moment Judi Dench appeared as a teenager in the York Mystery Plays it was clear that acting would be her career, and it was her performance in Franco Zeffirelli's Old Vic production of Romeo and Juliet that turned her into a star. Judi first became a household name on television in A Fin...

The famous story of mass escape from a WWII German PoW camp that inspired the classic filmOne of the most famous true stories from the last war, The Great Escape tells how more than six hundred men in a German prisoner-of-war camp worked together to achieve an extraordinary break-out. Every night...

Sasha is a traditionalist - now widowed, she knows she was married to the most wonderful man in the world. Liam is an artist, half-in and half-out of a marriage that his own impossibly impulsive behaviour has helped tear apart. While Sasha has been methodically building her father's Parisian art ...

He reached out his hand, and took hold of his wife's head, tried to lift it off, to put it on ... His wife looked as if she was used to such things. In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological dis...

The story of Toby Jug, a very fine cat...When Denis O'Connor rescues a three-week-old kitten from certain death during a snowstorm, little does he know how this tiny creature will change his life for ever. Against all odds the kitten - whom he names Toby Jug - survives and forms an unusually stro...

Linda Greenlaw hadn't been bluewater fishing for ten years - not since the events chronicled in The Perfect Storm and The Hungry Ocean - when she decided to captain a friend's boat for a season of swordfishing. Capturing the moment-by-moment details of her journey Greenlaw tells a story about hum...

Maureen Reynolds was born and brought up in Dundee, a city with no shortage of intriguing characters, extraordinary events and fascinating memories. In this brand new collection of tales, Maureen looks back to a time of youth and innocence and brings it all vividly back to life once again. There ...