Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Leisure

"All You Need is Love is a ground-breaking oral history of the Beatles and how it all came to an end. Based on never-before-published or heard interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their families, friends, and business associates, this is a landmark book, con...

A history of the hot rod movement by those who lived it, the numerous voices and images of people who know and love the hot rod like nothing else. The All-American Hot Rod is your personally guided tour through the saga of one of the most popular icons in American history, brought to life in the ...

Always Striving is not a blow-by-blow account of the history of the Essendon Football Club. Instead, this book highlights the key moments, people and events that have helped to define it through more than 140 years of existence. From the establishment of the club in the 1870s, to four successive ...

"In this gorgeously illustrated, full-color graphic memoir, Stan Lee--comic book legend and cocreator of Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, the Incredible Hulk, and a legion of other Marvel superheroes--shares his iconic legacy and the story of how modern comics came to be. Stan Lee is a man wh...

Global icon Six-time Grammy winner Headline-maker The most talented recording artist of her generation Much has been said about Amy Winehouse since her tragic death aged just 27. But who was the real Amy? Amy Winehouse: In Her Words shines a spotlight on her incredible writing talent, her wit, he...

"Another year of wonder is a carefully curated collection of classical music offering one piece to listen to every day of the year. Award-winning violinist, journalist and broadcaster Clemency Burton-Hill demystifies the music by humanising its creators. Of her chosen composers some are very famo...

Unique among the arts, ballet has no written texts or standardized notation. It is a storytelling art passed on from teacher to student. A ballerina dancing today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world...

This is the new third, 2016 edition of the iconic Simon Mentz / Glenn Tempest climbing guide to Mt Arapiles. Full colour, completely revised and updated, this selected climbs guide now covers 1300 classic climbs with 158 topos. Mt Arapiles is the best-trad climbing area in Australia and is arguab...