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Known as the Bible of footy. First published in 1992, it has sold over 120,000 copies in total. When Ben McKay ran onto the ground for North Melbourne in the Round 23, 2017 game against Brisbane he would have felt the same sense of enthusiasm and uncertainty as the long list of footballers who have gone before him. Young Ben became the 12,580th man to appear in League football since the competition began way back in May 1897. As the last debutante for 2017 he faced a vastly different scenario in so many ways to those pioneers of 1897.

Roots is the history of live music in Melbourne, from jazz to blues, country, folk, rhythm and blues to rock, and the socio-political stories of those musicians who played what they wanted, when they wanted, without a damn.

These books have been a labour of love dating back to the early 90s when Steve Woods hosted K-Rock’s #1 morning program in Geelong. Part of the show was a feature called the “Classic 9 At 9” which looked at nine songs from a particular year. Steve started adding news and information to compliment the music and audience loved it. Steve Woods has a strong media background that includes over 30 years experience in the Australian radio industry

This was the year when Melbourne hosted the Summer Olympics, the first edition of the Games to be held outside Europe and North America. It also heralded the arrival of television in Australia. Nick Richardson peels back the layers to reveal Australia at a critical moment in time. He brilliantly recreates the broader events surrounding the Melbourne Olympics at the end of 1956, as well as the dramas of the Games themselves. Throughout, he also follows a range of men and women who were touched by this transformation, to illuminate the personal consequences of being part of Australia’s pivotal year.

Following on from the best-selling Yellow & Black: A season with Richmond, Konrad Marshall’s acclaimed account of Richmond’s 2017 Premiership, comes Stronger and Bolder: The Story of Richmond's 2019 Premiership. It tells the intimate story of the Richmond Football Club through the highs and lows of its 2019 finals campaign, explaining how the club recovered from its disappointment of 2018. With unprecedented access to club officials, players and coaches, author Konrad Marshall takes the reader inside the rooms at the key moments of the campaign, chronicling the Tigers’ journey to AFL football’s Holy Grail

Tennis star Ashleigh Barty captured the public's imagination and admiration by not only winning a major tournament for the first time, the French Open, and ascending to the world No 1 ranking, the fi rst Australian woman to do so for 46 years, but by the humble, modest, gracious and yet iron-willed and fiercely focussed way she went about it. The wins, the quotes, the processes, the reactions of others, the team behind her, the background and the many reasons why she is such a true-blue Australian that she could never be mistaken for any other nationality.

‘Dr Karl’s Random Road Trip Through Science’ was this week’s feature as we entered The Late Show Library once again with Kevin Hillier

Titus O'Reilly's 'Please Gamble Irresponsibly' was this week's feature as Kevin Hillier headed back in to the Late Show Library on RSN 927

Dominic Knight's 'The Strayan Dictionary' - Avo, Arvo, Mabo, ScoMo and the essential Strayan word' was this week's feature as Kevin Hillier headed back in to the Late Show Library

Description: How the 1969-70 Victorians won the Sheffield Shield… it is the story of one fabulous domestic summer and the electrifying presence of an unheralded fast bowler with an action all of his own… ‘Bob’ was the legendary Bob Cowper, Victoria’s captain. Ken is part of the fabric of Victoria with his writings about sport across in particular cricket and football.

Footy legend Kevin Sheedy crosses team alliances to profile the 21 most iconic Aussie Rules players and coaches of his lifetime. He also sits down for interviews with nine icons he has long admired and who don't normally (for various reasons) have their stories told. Packed full of wisdom and wit, insight and memories, ICONS OF FOOTY is a treasure-trove for football fans of all tribes and ages, from one of the most unique and colourful characters in Australian sport. This beautifully-packaged hardback includes: Gary Ablett Senior, Allen Aylett, Ron Barassi, Kevin Bartlett, Malcolm Blight, Barry Cable, Wayne Carey, Alastair Clarkson, Jason Dunstall, Graham Farmer, Lance Franklin, Adam Goodes, Royce Hart, Francis Hughes, James Hird, Alex Jesaulenko, Leigh Matthews, Kevin Murray, John Nicholls, Barrie Robran, Michael Tuck.

In 1995, journalist and author Roland Perry wrote to Sir Donald Bradman requesting an interview for a biography he was planning of the great cricketer. Surprisingly, the Don agreed. It was the start of a conversation that continued for years, during which the real Bradman shone, not only as a great sportsman but musician, brilliant thinker and humourist with a fondness for tea and a Scotch or two.In Tea and Scotch with Bradman, Perry paints an intimate and revealing portrait of the man many regard as the greatest Australian cricketer of all time.

The incredible story of the world's greatest road race. In 1968, ninety-eight competitors stormed out of London on the world's greatest automotive adventure, the London to Sydney Marathon, the most ambitious and epic car race ever staged. John Smailes was a young journalist at the time, covering the race for the Sydney Daily Telegraph. Fifty years after this extraordinary race was run, John's dramatic, compelling and utterly fascinating story-drawing on his own first-hand, eyewitness account and enhanced by in-depth interviews over the intervening years with all the race's key participants-brings the marathon vividly to life.

No other football club in Australia features a series of totem poles, painted by schoolchildren, at its ground to represent the clubs that have merged into one. But then no other club is like Ouyen United - or Ouyen Very United, as the case may be. The Kangas are based in the Mallee, in the dry and distant northwest of Victoria. Over the course of a century, more than thirty clubs have merged into the eventual, totemic end point, which is Ouyen United. Paul Daffey, a long-time footy writer and traveller, heads to the Mallee to investigate the club's challenges - and becomes enchanted by the club's charms. Daffey travels to other parts of Victoria during the course of the season, to Horsham, Frankston and the sunny Strzelecki Ranges in Gippsland. Through his journey, he takes the pulse of the game in its country heartland.

Australians know Libby Trickett as one of our golden girls of swimming. Winner of multiple Olympic gold medals and setter of world records, Libby wasn't just a champion, she was Australia's girl next door, the humble superstar from suburban Brisbane with the infectious grin and sunny nature. Libby's memoir is an extraordinarily candid, revealing and inspiring account of both her public life as one of our greatest swimming champions, and her struggle to overcome her mental health challenges. She joined Kevin Hillier in the Late Night Library to talk more in-depth about her story.