Collins Booksellers Christmas Reading Guide 2015 December 2015 | Page 16

16 Visit us today! collinsbooks.com.au sport Gotta Love This Country! Boxing in Australia Peter FitzSimons RRP $29.99 Grantlee Kieza RRP $39.99 Grantlee Kieza’s 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 and Kostya Tszyu. Boxing in Australia is packed with personalities, stories and stats from boxing history, presented in an accessible style. Peter FitzSimons celebrates the good, the generous, the kind and the downright strange in this hilarious and heart-warming collection of stories from daily life and grassroots sporting fields around the country. It’s enough for you to puff out your chest and say, Gotta Love This Country! Due 18th November It Happened on a Fishing Trip Legacy Paddy O’Reilly RRP $29.99 Tim Cahill RRP $39.99 We do it in ponds, creeks, great rivers, the deep sea. Some fall under the spell of the chase, some spend a lifetime trying to tie the perfect fly, some just like sitting on the pier for a few hours. These are the stories of the fishing adventures and misadventures of amateurs and pros, one-time anglers, families and friends, in the stunning Australian landscape. With his trademark honesty and directness, Tim reflects on what it takes to make it to the top: the sacrifices, the physical cost, the mental stamina, the uncompromising self-belief and selfdetermination, the ruthlessness, Our Price but also the decency, the integrity, $ and the generosity. 99 34 Inside Unemployable Chris Judd RRP $39.99 Jason Boulter RRP $80.00 Unemployable is the story of a bunch of misfits, led by Australia’s Hill brothers who went on to become industry pioneers, forming the skate, street and surf company, Globe International. Chris Judd’s autobiography is a unique journey into the game, describing with extraordinary candour what it’s like to climb to the highest pinnacle and to experience the full measure of heartache and failure that inevitably accompanies Our Price more than a decade of playing at $ this elite level. 99 34 Due 1st december Chappy Bruce Postle: sport Bruce Postle RRP $29.99 Paul Chapman Jon Anderson RRP $39.95 For more than five decades, multiaward winning press photographer Bruce Postle captured significant moments in Australian life. His collection of images is a national treasure chronicling Australian life through the golden age of press photography. Sport presents Bruce Postle’s greatest sporting images. Chappy is a celebration of the career of much admired AFL footballer Paul Chapman and the highs and lows of two of the AFL’s most revered clubs, Geelo