Collection: Large Print Non Fiction

'Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. My friends call me Matty. And I should be dead.' So begins the riveting story of acclaimed actor Matthew Perry, taking us along on his journey from childhood ambition to fame to addiction and recovery in the aftermath of a life-th...

Journalist Bianca Bosker's existence was upended when she wandered into the art world - couldn't look away. Intrigued by artists who hyperventilate around their favourite colours and art fiends who max out credit cards to show hunks of metal they think can change the world, Bosker grew fixated on...

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...

Based on interviews with friends, family and lovers, J. Randy Taraborrelli paints an portrait of a woman whose flaws and contradictions only serve to make her even more iconic. 'I have three lives,' Jackie told a former lover, 'public, private and secret'. New insights include: Jackie's cold feet...

In 1966, New Plymouth, New Zealand, was a changing place with changing times. Twelve-year-old Helen, the daughter of an eccentric engineer and a musical theatre fanatic, lived in a crumbling castle overrun by nature and overshadowed by Mount Taranaki. On the eve of puberty, Helen feels lonely and...

This collection of real-life accounts from Australia's outback police is a testament to the resilience and courage of the Australian outback community. The story begins with a robbery in a Wiluna retirement unit where two police officers arrives to investigate. The first unit in the block is visi...

When she was four years old, Shanelle Dawson's mother, Lynette, disappeared. On 8 January 1982, the woman who had been a loving, constant presence vanished without a trace. Shanelle's father, Chris Dawson, claimed that his wife just needed to get away. But Lyn never returned home. Her side of the...

Sydney's legendary Radio Birdman were a stake through the satin and scarfed hearts of the mid 70s' music scene, revolutionising the conservative Australian industry in the process. Regarded as one of the earliest punk bands, before the world had heard of the Sex Pistols, Birdman were feared and l...

The extraordinary story of American special operator and trailblazer Shannon Kent, who was killed at the age of 35 by a suicide bomber while hunting high value targets on a classified mission in Syria in 2019. Of the 1.3 million active-duty service members in the U.S. military, only a tiny fracti...

When she breaks an unspoken family code not to dig too deeply into the past, Andra is plunged into the bleak world of the Soviet and Nazi occupations of Latvia in World War II, and the secret lives of her grandmothers. Teenage Aline is separated from her parents and sent to serve in Germany's war...