New Large Print Non Fiction

Bestselling author and presenter Simon Reeve reveals the inside story of his most astonishing adventures and experiences, both around the planet and close to home. JOURNEYS TO IMPOSSIBLE PLACES continues the story Simon started in STEP BY STEP, which traced the first decades of his life from depressed and unemployed teenager through to his early TV programmes. Now he takes us on the adventures that followed in beautiful, tricky, and downright dangerous...

'No one ever fully recovers from their past. There is no cure for it. You just learn to manage and prioritise it. I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something, anything - an abuse, an injury to the body or the mind, an addiction, a character flaw, a habit, a person - you have merely decided to stop being vigilant and embraced denial as your modus operandi. And that is what this book is about, and for: to remind you not to...

What do the Greek myths mean to us today? It's now a golden age for these tales - they crop up in novels, films and popular culture. But what's the modern relevance of Theseus, Hera and Pandora? Were these stories ever meant for children? And what's to be seen now at the places where heroes fought and gods once quarrelled? Peter Fiennes travels to the sites of some of the most famous Greek myths, on the trail of hope, beauty and a new way of seeing...

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor, THIS IS GOING TO HURT, was read by millions, translated into numerous languages, and adapted into a major BBC television series. But that was only part of the story. What happened when a physician leaves medicine - but medicine refuses to let go of HIM...? By turns hilarious, heartbreaking and humbling, UNDOCTORED reflects on a life inextricably bound up with medicine: from medical school education...

Following the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011, Suzannah Worth discovered amongst her manuscripts a folder simply labelled 'Fifth Book'. Imagine her excitement when she sat down to read and her mother's distinctive voice came flooding back. She found herself once again immersed in the world of the 1950s East End of London. The voices of much loved, familiar characters spoke loud and clear, particularly that of Fred the boiler man,...

With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realise what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was - truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.

From her early days in Liverpool to her unexpected acceptance into RADA; from beginning her scriptwriting career with WIDOWS and PRIME SUSPECT to becoming a BAFTA award-winning writer and producer, Lynda La Plante has an important story to tell, one of breaking down stereotypes and blazing a trail for others along the way. Starting her writing career in the eighties, an era of entrenched gender inequality both in front of and behind the camera, Lynda...

Picking up from where 'Living the Chateau Dream' ended, Dick and Angel recount the newest and biggest challenges they faced on the journey to transforming their once derelict and abandoned chateau in France's Pays de la Loire into a thriving family home and sustainable business. When the COVID-19 pandemic engulfs the world, the chateau faces a new challenge and must find ways to adapt in order to keep the Strawbridge's dream life in France alive....

For years, Nigel Slater has kept notebooks of curiosities and wonderings, penned while at his kitchen table, soaked in a fisherman's hut in Reykjavik, sitting calmly in a moss garden in Japan or sheltering from a blizzard in a Vienna Konditorei. These are the small moments, events and happenings that gave pleasure before they disappear. Miso soup for breakfast, packing a suitcase for a trip, watching a butterfly settle on a carpet. Nigel tells us...