Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Leisure

Veteran climber Mark Synnott never planned on climbing Mount Everest, but a hundred-year mystery lured him into an expedition -- and an awesome history of passionate adventure, chilling tragedy, and human aspiration unfolded. On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and "Sandy" Irvine set out to stand on ...

Antonino Tati (founding editor of Cream Magazine) celebrates 20 years of publishing by pulling together an anthology of unorthodox interviews with artists from the international music scene – delving into juicier subjects like sex and sexuality, drink and drugs, money and politics, race and relig...

A collection of the world's most mind-boggling, thought-provoking and downright hilarious theories -- by the co-host of the UK's most downloaded podcast No Such Thing As A Fish, Dan Schreiber. Why are we here? Do ghosts exist? Will we ever travel back in time? Are we being visited by extraterrest...

The Song Remains the Same traces these connections through a hundred songs from different cultures and times: love songs, anthems, protest songs, lullabies, folk songs, jazz standards, lieder and pop hits; ‘Waltzing Matilda’ to ‘We Will Rock You’, ‘Jerusalem’ to ‘Jolene’. Unpicking their inner wo...

The Official History of the FIFA Women's World Cup is an authoritative and comprehensive review of the seven FIFA World Cup tournaments played since the inaugural tournament in 1991. Packed with more than 800 photographs, unique official documents and statistics, it celebrates women's football li...

The Rugby League grand final is known as the pinnacle of rugby league endeavour in this country. At the end of what is acknowledged as the toughest football competition in the world, two teams vie for the National Rugby League championship in a match that has produced its fair share of thrills, c...