Collection: Large Print Non Fiction

On a warm summer's evening in February 2014, eleven-year-old Luke Batty was killed by his father at cricket practice. It was a horrific act of family violence that shocked Australia. The next morning, his mother Rosie bravely stood before the media. Her powerful and gut-wrenching words about fami...

How far would you go to pay the bills? 'Secrets of a Webcam Girl' is the true story of a girl's transition from business suit to birthday suit as a means to fix mounting financial problems. Told with candor and wit, this behind-the-scenes memoir reveals her patrons' fetishes, infidelities, and pe...

Want to know what really goes on on an aeroplane? Let's go behind the scenes and fly high with these tall tales and gossip from the galley! Everyone wants to be a flight attendant, or at least they want to know about the cushy lifestyle they lead - flying to exotic destinations, swanning about in...

In 1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Beeston, accompanied by his faithful dog Paddy, was dispatched overseas with the 4th Field Ambulance of the Australian Imperial Force. Chronicling his experiences of the Gallipoli Campaign, he recounts the irrepressible humour of the Australian soldiery, the privations ...

A highly entertaining, scurrilous and fascinating book on Australian con men (and women) and all their dirty, devious tricks. There are con men you fear and con men you hate, and con men with amazing stories who take your breath away with their dirty tricks and sheer brazen effontery. How do they...

Elizabeth Berg's father was an Army veteran who was a tough man in every way but one: he showed a great deal of love and tenderness to his wife. Berg describes her parents' marriage as a romance that lasted for nearly seventy years; she grew up watching her father kiss her mother upon leaving hom...

Each June, Tory Bilski meets up with fellow women travelers in Reykjavik where they head to northern Iceland, near the Greenland Sea. They escape their ordinary lives to live an extraordinary one at a horse farm perched at the edge of the world. If only for a short while.When they first came to T...

Collects the best of the author's essays from five decades of the "Irish Times" to reflect a changing culture as well as her observations on such topics as the royal wedding, waitressing, and boring airline companions.

Lady Marguerite Milton has been abducted by the enigmatic and insatiable Golden Knight. But Marguerite is pining for David, who pledged his love ten years before... and disappeared. But David is the Golden Knight́ђت reaffirming his oath to protect Marguerite and́ђت maddeningly, to love her, but c...

"Actor, director, producer, biographer, critic and journalist, Blundell established theatre companies and was there when they closed, watched the film industry through its many renaissances, and television as it became an addictive digital environment. In The Naked truth Blundell writes about Aus...