Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Leisure

Parsifal, Wagner's final opera, is considered by many to be one of the greatest religious musical works ever composed; but it is also one of the most difficult to understand and many have questioned whether it can be considered a "Christian" work at all. Added to this is the furious debate that h...

'From the bestselling author of Silence comes an illuminating exploration of the joy of walking. From those perilous first steps to great expeditions, from walking to work to walking to the North Pole, Erling Kagge explains that he who walks lives longer, and better.'After having put my shoes on ...

"A memoir of one young man's coming of age on a cross-country trek, told through the stories of the people of all ages, races, and inclinations he meets along the highways of America"--Amazon.com.

Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in Britain's musical history; musicians and their fans suddenly became instigators of social change, and 'the political persuasion of musicians was as importan...

How on earth could a town like Wangaratta in rural Victoria host a jazz festival? Thirty years on, Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues is firmly established as Australia's leading jazz festival, bringing together musicians and punters from all over the globe. It has won tourism awards and is ra...

Shane Warne, who died in 2022, is universally acknowledged as one of the greatest cricketers of all time and the greatest spin bowler ever. Warne in Wisden records the highlights of an exceptional career handpicked from all Wisden publications over a twenty-plus-year period and curated for a glob...

Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasy Warner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early twentieth century through its ascen...

Watching More Racehorses is the long-awaited sequel to Dr Geoffrey Hutson's original and ground-breaking book, Watching Racehorses. In this book Geoffrey takes his quest for the Holy Grail of punting, picking winners based on looks in the mounting yard to a new and higher level. Observations on o...