Collection: Adult Non-Fiction Large Print

Ralph and Ethel Edwards carved a pioneer life out of the wilderness and raised three children in the isolation of British Columbia's Coast Chilcotin country. This book tells their story, describing in detail the birds and animals around them.

This is the successful account of Colditz, famous PoW camp, as seen from the German side. Eggers was on the staff there for the greater part of the war, in charge of security, & relates how he discharged, with varying success, his duty of preventing escapes.

This is the startling true story of two young English women who survived the decade's most tragic hostage situation and plane crash. An introduction is given by Terry Waite.

Women, often the unsung heroes of the countryside, are celebrated here - from the independent spirit of the shepherdess through the supportive loyalty of the wife of the gamekeeper or farmer to the more comfortable life-style of high-born ladies.

From the bestselling author of Hidden Lives, this is an exploration of what it means to be a wife. Margaret Forster focuses on the lives of four women, starting in the mid-19th century and moving up to the present day and her own marriage.

In Mrs Kennedy, Barbara Leaming concentrates on the three White House years of Jackie Kennedy, wife of President John F. Kennedy.

The first woman to be appointed Speaker of the House of Commons, Betty Boothroyd was once a celebrated Tiller Girl. In her autobiography, she tells of her life and her time in politics, and gives her strongly held views on the role of Parliament.

This volume opens with Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' and the flowering of the modern English language in the 14th century, and culminates with the Glorious Revolution of 1688-9, when Parliament secured tighter control of the Crown.

Mothers Against Drugs may have been a mad idea for a small church in Chadsmoor. But Carol Hathorne recognised the need in her community to set people free from the grip of heroin, and started on a course that would capture the imaginations of many.