Collection: Large Print Non Fiction

A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey toward peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse. It was Memorial Day, 2019, when Geraldine Brooks received news that her husband, Tony Horwitz, had collapsed and died, far from home, in the middle of his o...

In Roman Year, André Aciman captures the period when his family first set foot in Rome after being expelled from Egypt. All vestiges of their status vanished when they fled, and the author, his brother, and his deaf mother moved into an apartment in Rome's Via Clelia. Aciman's time in Rome did no...

The definitive biography of Ange Postecoglou, Australia's first Premier League manager and instigator of the 'Angeball' phenomenon that has taken the football world by storm. With unparalleled access to Postecoglou himself and a career spent pitch-side, leading Australian football writer Vince Ru...

'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...

A quarter of a century after the plane crash that claimed the lives of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn, and her sister Lauren, the magnitude of this tragedy remains fresh. Yet, Carolyn is still an enigmatic figure, a woman whose short life in the spotlight was besieged with misogyny and cru...

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...

In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice - her truth - was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey - and the str...

Are you ready to live with more joy, less stress, and improve virtually every aspect of your life? What if a healthy, abundant, joyful, faith-filled life is within reach? What if you could increase your energy, vitality, and happiness, and stop dragging through the day, living discouraged and dep...

Raised in Alabama, she sent shockwaves through the South when she launched a public broadside against Jim Crow and donated to the NAACP. She used her fame to oppose American intervention in WWI. She spoke out against Hitler the month he took power in 1933 and embraced the anti-fascist cause durin...

For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred brazen heists over ten years - in museums and churches across Europe - Breitwieser, al...

The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest paid movie star. The leader of the world's sixth-largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke, but this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident. Schwarzenegger's stratos...

Henry Winkler, launched into prominence by his role as 'The Fonz' in Happy Days, has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny and widely-regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood, Henry shares in this achingly vulnerable memoir the disheartening truth of his childhood, the dif...

You can get happier. When times are good, this is easy to believe., But sometimes life's hardships can feel like impossible barriers, making happiness seems out of reach. Other times, we may just feel stuck - not unhappy, but wanting more out of life. In Build the Life You Want, Arthur C. Brooks ...

In the 1960s, fifty countries contributed nearly a billion dollars to save a dozen ancient Egyptian temples from drowning in the floodwaters of the Aswan High Dam. But the press coverage at the time overlooked the French archaeologist who made it all happen. Without the intervention of Christiane...

Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard's villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching run as Professor Severus Snape. His air of dignity, his sonorous voice and the knowing wit he brought to each role continue...

In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a friendship with a young girl named Anne Frank. But in 1942, as the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam progress, Anne and the Frank family seemingly vanished. Hannah was tormented over Anne's fate, w...

When her uncle, King Edward VIII, abdicated, Elizabeth Windsor became heir to the throne. Ascending to the throne at only 25, this self-effacing monarch navigated setbacks, family conflict and occasional triumphs throughout her 70 years as the Queen of England. Now in The Queen, renowned biograph...

In this riveting you-are-there account, the final weeks of World War II in the Pacific come vividly alive as bestselling author Evan Thomas takes us into the hearts and minds of the three men faced with a pivotal moment in history: America's decision to use nuclear weapons and Japan's decision to...

The second woman ever hired for the role of Death Investigator in Manhattan, Barabara Butcher was the first to last more than three months. In What the Dead Know, she describes how just from sheer luck of having her arm in cast she avoided a boobytrapped suicide. Later in her career, she describe...

In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through 87 of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and ...

Known for her childhood role as Laura Ingalls Wilder on the classic NBC show Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert has spent nearly her entire life in Hollywood. From Dancing with the Stars to a turn in politics, she was always on the lookout for her next project. She just had no idea that...

Diana's Boys revealed the powerful bond between the teenaged princes, and how it strengthened even more in the wake of their mother's tragic death. Now, 20 years later, Queen Elizabeth II is in her mid-90s, Prince Charles is in his 70s, and all eyes are turned increasingly toward William and Harr...