Collection: Large Print - Nonfiction

Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Where is it easier to get "spice" than paracetamol? Where does self-harm barely raise an eyebrow? Welcome to Her Majesty's Prison Service. Like most people, documentary-maker Chris Atkins didn't spend much time thinking about prisons. But after becom...

The murder of a first-year university student shocks the city of Durham. The victim, Emily Brabents, was from the privileged and popular set at Joyce College, a cradle for the country's future elite. As Detective Inspector Erica Martin investigates the college, she finds a close-knit community fu...

Recovered from original sources, this is the fascinating true story of Bartholomew Roberts, also known as Black Barty, one of the most successful and deadly pirates in all of history. He is believed to be the first pirate to fly the skull and crossbones

It's a story that began in a rickety old home on a cold June morning in 1994, where five members of a seemingly ordinary New Zealand family were gunned down. There were two suspects. One lay dead from a single bullet to the head. The other was the only survivor: David Bain. Since then, the countr...

The story of Ned Kelly is also the untold story of Michael Kennedy, the police sergeant slain and robbed by the outlaw 140 years ago. Both Kennedy and Kelly were Irish immigrants struggling to make their way in the new colonies of Australia - Kennedy was committed to defending the law, while Kell...

Through the voices of the women themselves, this is a portrait of life at Bletchley Park beyond the celebrated code-breakers. A true story of the women behind Britain's ability to consistently outsmart the enemy in World War II.

The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in detail. Its decryption capabilities were vital to the war effort, significantly aiding the Allied victory. But where did the messages being deciphered come from in the first place? This is the extrao...

The birth of the railroads changed the face of the whole world and the way people lived. At first the impetus for railroad construction was clearly economic, but construction of the iron roads grew to serve social and political goals.

Over the six decades of his remarkable career, film legend Michael Caine has starred in some of the biggest movies of all time - and made it look easy. In reality, it has been one huge learning curve, from his unlikely beginnings as the son of a Billingsgate fish porter to pursuing his dream of b...

Bob Dixon spent years "on the beat" as a police constable with the Metropolitan Police in the early 1960s, witnessing all manner of incidents, from the serious to the ludicrous. Spending the majority of his time in London's East End dealing with drunks, fatalities on the road, domestic disputes, ...