Collection: Adult non-fiction

Graham Lord tells the story of Alf Wight, better known as James Herriot the world's best loved vet - from his unknown early days in Glasgow to the 50 years he spent working in the Yorkshire Dales.

This second omnibus volume by James Herriot contains his third and fourth books, Let Sleeping Vets Lie and Vet in Harness.

This step-by-step instruction manual on the repair of mechanical clocks and watches begins with simple mechanisms and proceeds to more complicated types, dealing mainly with more modern mechanical clocks, but attending also to movements of older longcase and fusee types.

'Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis' is Wendy Cope's first full length collection of poems.

This book contains stirring stories of war at sea, with the emphasis on the ship to ship gun duels, where destruction and victory were assured. A wide range of theatres, vessels and outcomes are covered by the stories.

This work covers the major submarine campaigns in World War II, describing in detail the operation of the British, American, German, Japanese and Italian submarine forces. It shows the margin by which Britain escaped defeat in the Battle of the Atlantic and other aspects of the conflict.

Assembled by a team of scientists and artists, this book looks at the marvels of adaptation through natural selection. It covers the unity of form and function in the vertebrae skeleton - everything from fish to primates including Homo Sapiens.