Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Leisure

An epic journey through sea shanties, high tides and seven seas. From the international bestselling singer comes The Book of Sea Shanties! The world sang in harmony with Nathan Evans, the Glaswegian postie turned singer of sea shanties. Join him as he takes you through time and seafaring history ...

It's the 1986 tour of India, and Australian cricket is reeling from the loss of key players to retirement and rebel tours. Few give Australia a chance against a surging India, and even Allan Border doubts his ability to lead this team. What follows is one of the most titanic struggles in cricket ...

Bestselling author Christopher McDougall and veteran coach Eric Orton show you how to run the Born to Run way. The torchbearer of the barefoot running movement, sparked by his global bestseller Born to Run, Chris McDougall offers practical training advice for embracing the ultrarunning lifestyle....

This book looks at boxing in Australia from early European settlement to the present day. It describes all the famous fights and all the best-known Aussie boxers, including Lionel Rose, Les Darcy, Jeff Fenech, Kostya Tszyu, Tony and Anthony Mundine, and many more.

The Boys' Club is the must-read inside story behind the power and politics of AFL, Australia's biggest sport. Revealing how the fledgling state administrative body evolved into the Australian Football League and its meteoric rise to become one of the richest and most powerful organisations in the...

Out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant...

This new edition of the much-loved Bradford's Crossword Solver's Dictionary offers even more. Users will never again be short of answers to their crossword clues! Every word in this dictionary has appeared as a solution to a real crossword clue. Previous readers have found this book an invaluable...

The definitive story of the most controversial chapter in the history of Australian and English cricket - the notorious Bodyline series, by Roland Perry, author of Sir Donald Bradman's authorised biography, The Don. Using new material and his previous unparalleled access to Sir Donald Bradman, Ro...