Collection: Large Print - Nonfiction

David Stratton's selection of overlooked gems includes movies from such well-known directors as David Lynch, Ang Lee and Sidney Lumet. They star popular actors such as Colin Firth, Meryl Streep, Sean Connery, Cate Blanchett, Clint Eastwood, Reese Witherspoon, Paul Newman, Emma Thompson and Jake G...

Tells the story of Edward VIII, his American wife Wallis Simpson, the bizarre wartime Nazi plot to make him a puppet king after the invasion of Britain, and the attempted cover-up by Churchill, General Eisenhower, and King George VI.

Contribution made by the Australian poets who emerged during and just after World War II, includes contemporary poems likely to become classics. Each is followed by short essay discussing its merits, suggesting why it might be a classic.

Tony Abbott may have been a Rhodes Scholar, but some commentators are convinced that he offered nothing more than three-word slogans. Abbott's Right challenges this perception, and presents Abbott as someone who rejoices in the political battle of ideas. It looks at how the contemporary conservat...

The incredible life of an astonishing athlete. Dylan Alcott has never let his disability get in the way of what he wanted to achieve. His family treated him no differently to any other kid, and it was the best thing they ever did. Growing up, Dylan always had a positive attitude to life. So when ...

Marie Fleming, who has MS, is best known in Ireland for taking a landmark case against the State to lift the ban on assisted suicide.

On the Saturday morning of January 9, 1993, while Jean-Claude Romand was killing his wife and children, I was with mine in a parent-teacher meeting...Jean-Claude and Luc have been friends for twenty years: the former a leading figure in the world of research, hobnobbing with government ministers ...

Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her 15th birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Many Holocaust memoirs stop at the end of the war, but Eva's book is different. She recalls her life before & during the war, as well as her struggle to rebuild her life afterwards.

Diabetes is epidemic in the United States, especially if you're over the age of 50. Even if you're already being diligent about your health, a diagnosis can feel like an overwhelming extra burden. The editors of Bottom Line Inc. present Aging Well with Diabetes, the first book for mature men and ...

Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, Alfred Hitchcock was isolated as a child. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did he become one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth ...