Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Leisure

There have been histories of Australian football before. There has not been one like Carn. Carn tells the story of the Victorian Football League and its successor, the Australian Football League, from 1897 to the present day, by focusing on 50 of the thousands of games which have been played down...

The Carter Sisters Handbook & Price Guide to Antiques, Collectables, Vintage & Retro is the only trusted guide to the Australian antique market. The 5500 images in the book have been specially selected from more than 7000 items taken from antiques and collectables dealers across Australia, to ens...

Australia has a long cinema history -- starting with the world's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, made in Melbourne and released in 1906. Today, much of Australia's film talent goes to the United States, looking for bigger and more lucrative opportunities. But what does this mean ...

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...