Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Leisure

The Hottest 100 is a national institution. This book is a fun retrospective: an insightful, light-hearted and deeply respectful celebration of the colourful history of 'the world's greatest musical democracy'.

The Sick Bag Song is an exploration of love, inspiration and memory shaped around the events of Cave's 2014 tour of North America. It began life scribbled on airline sick bags during the 22-city tour. It soon grew into a restless full-length contemporary epic. Spurred by encounters with modern da...

This collection is encyclopedic in its scope -- a reader gets a master's in comedy -- while being constantly funny, extraordinarily candid, and offering so many unprecedented delights that it really can't be replicated elsewhere. There is perhaps no one in world whose influence on contemporary co...

"No one knows comedy like Judd Apatow. From interviewing the biggest comics of the day for his high school radio show to performing stand-up in L.A. dive bars with his roommate Adam Sandler, to writing and directing Knocked Up and producing Freaks and Geeks, Apatow has always lived, breathed, and...

A conductor is one of classical music's most recognizable figures. Many people who have never actually been to an orchestral concert have an image of what one looks like. But rarely does such a well-known profession attract so many questions: 'Surely orchestras can play perfectly well without you...

This book explores the incredible contribution of women at the dawn of cinema when, surprisingly, more women were employed across the board in the film industry than they are now.

In this interactive, multi-angle DVD, Robyn Payne guides you through a comprehensive piano class. With over an hour of lessons and practice exercises, Simply Piano covers everything from the essential basics through to advanced exercises and features musical notation onscreen for you to follow a...

"Some people are born with naturally beautiful voices, but even the best can get better by applying training that can make a performance truly soar. Singing Exercises For Dummies shows you how to do just that. Following the drills and exercises found both in the book and online examples, you'll b...