Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Leisure

In every coastal town in Australia, there's a bait shop and a boat ramp. Fishing rods are strung up in laundries and garages around the country, waiting for their next outing. Walk over a bridge, look across to a wharf and there will be people casting a line. Many people have a special fishing sp...

Since the Miners versus Market Gardeners 'Celestial football match' on the Victorian goldfields in 1892, Chinese-Australians have embraced Australian Rules football and been among its most enthusiastic followers. In Celestial Footy, Patrick Skene chronicles the participation and passion of Chines...

A book about serial killers and the films inspired by their crimes.

All his life, award-winning journalist and author Andrew Rule has watched the heroes and villains of racing – dreamers and schemers, winners and losers, horses and riders. In Chance, he distils the daring, the desperation and danger of the track into a bravura account of some of Australian racing...

Channeling What is it that propels otherwise ordinary adult Australians to put themselves at risk, take on the madness of the English Channel and swim 35 kilometres through the cold of one of the world's busiest shipping routes? Crossing the Channel is an iconic challenge, right up there with Eve...

Chasing the Rainbow tells the history of both the men's and women's road World Cycling Championships, recounting the untold stories of one of cycling's greatest prizes. Packed with exclusive rider interviews with previous champions, including Stephen Roche, Cadel Evans and Nicole Cooke, to name j...

Mastering the not-so-subtle art of cheating in sport. Where there's sport, there's cheating. No sport is immune; athletics, swimming, rugby, American Football, cricket, baseball, badminton, motorsports, tennis and curling. Yes, even that sport on the ice with brooms. Almost as soon as humans sta...