Sport & Sport Biography

Terry Crouch / The World Cup: The Complete History (Large Paperback)

The World The Complete History is one of the few truly encyclopedic guides to the world’s premier soccer tournament, from its earliest days to the 2006 World Cup finals. The book is notable for its...

David Wardale / Wasting Your Wildcard: The Method and Madness of Fantasy Football (Large Paperback)

Every Saturday afternoon, 5.8 million people around the world settle down to see how their team will get on.But this isn’t the team they support. It’s THEIR team.They have spent hour after hour...

Brett C. Schwartz , Chris A. Dazet / Competitive Tennis (Large Paperback)

Golfers and bowlers have always looked at their handicaps to see where they ranked with competitors and to track their own improvement. But for you and the millions of other tennis players, there has...

Paul Mason / World: Windsurfing (Large Paperback)

Each World Sport book reveals an ideal location for learning a particular technique essential for mastering the sport, from trimming a surfboard along a wave in Windansea, California, to sailing the...

Mick Cleary , John Griffiths / IRB International Rugby Yearbook 2002-2003 (Large Paperback)

  A comprehensive reference yearbook on rugby union, with all the essential fixtures, results and statistics from the world game. It is a comprehensive review of events in rugby union over the past...

Denis Brien / All the King's Men: A History of the Hindmarsh Cricket Club, 1857 to 1897 (Large Paperback)

All the Kings' Men  teases out the social impacts of cricket in the new colony of South Australia and, in particular, the western suburbs of Adelaide, providing insights into the hardships that the...

Graham Scambler / Sport and Society (Hardback)

This succinct, comprehensive account of the contemporary sociology of sport starts by tracing the key "moments" in the transition from premodern to modern sport. It gives detailed accounts of the...

Eimear Ryan / The Grass Ceiling (Large Paperback)

What is it like to be female in a male-dominated sporting world? If you play with the boys, more people pay attention - but you get treated like an alien. Playing with other girls or women means you...

Alex Honnold , David Roberts / Alone on the Wall - The Ultimate Limits of Adventure

A thirty-year-old climbing phenomenon, Alex Honnold pushes the limits of free soloing beyond anything previously attempted, as he climbs without a rope, without a partner, and without any gear to...

Rory Best / My Autobiography

Extraordinary . . . great fun' Barry Egan, Irish Sunday Independent'A wonderful story . . . vivid and comprehensive.' Stephen Jones, Sunday Times''Throughout it all though there is a feeling of...

Davy Fitzgerald / At All Costs

The story of one of Ireland's most recognizable and polarizing sports figures, in his own words. Davy Fitzgerald is an All-Ireland winning hurler and manager who established a reputation as one of...

Davis Miller / Zen of Muhammad Ali: And Other Obsessions

This collection features Davis Miller’s celebrated trilogy of award-winning Muhammad Ali pieces, including the classic “My Dinner with Ali,” together with a provocative new essay called “The Yin and...

Clare GAA Yearbook 2014 - Bliainiris an Chláir PB Illustrated Gaelic Games

The CLARE GAA Yearbook, 2014 published by Clare County Board, Ennis.  180 pages, large format paperback, very good , apart from bumped crease to lower corners . Full colour photography throughout,...

Max Davidson / Fields of Courage: The Bravest Chapters in Sport

From Jackie Robinson to Billie Jean King, a cavalcade of sports heroism celebrating virtues that transcend winning and losing  Explaining why athletics, at their best, can be so inspirational, this...

Guenther Steiner / Surviving to Drive : A Year Inside Formula 1

People talk about football managers being under pressure. Trust me, that's nothing. Pressure is watching one of your drivers hit a barrier at 190mph and exploding before your eyes...'Guenther Steiner...

Daire Whelan / The Managers: The Tactics and Thinkers that Transformed Gaelic Football

  What is it that makes a successful Gaelic soccer manager?  Is it success as a past player, man management skills, or, in more recent times, a knowledge and understanding of tactics, systems, and...

Jonathan Wilson / Two Brothers - The Life and Times of Bobby and Jack Charlton

The story of Jack and Bobby Charlton, and a family that characterised English football for decades'Gripping' Daily Mail'Wilson is a fine, nuanced writer' TLS'A powerful chronicle' Irish...

Joe Geraghty - Out of Sight : Stories of Ireland's Blind and Vision Impaired Sportspeople - PB -2024

Josh Hamilton & Tim Keown / Beyond Belief : Finding the Strength to Come Back (Hardback)

Josh Hamilton was the first player chosen in the first round of the 1999 baseball draft. He was destined to be one of those rare "high-character " superstars. But in 2001, working his way from the...

Ian Wright / My Life in Football (Hardback)

Ian Wright, Arsenal legend, England striker and TV pundit extraordinaire, is one of the most interesting and relevant figures in modern football.His journey from a South London council estate to...

George Hamilton - The Nation Holds its Breath - HARDBACK

  ‘David O’Leary is entrusted with the responsibility of taking the penalty that could send Ireland to the quarter-finals of the World Cup. This kick can decide it all.

Steve Duno / Guide to Playing Golf

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Taking up Golf (Hardback)

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Dean Hayes / Ireland's Greatest: 300 Top Football Heroes (Coffee Table Book)

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David Meek, Tom Tyrrell / Sir Alex Ferguson: The Official Manchester United Celebration of 25 Years at Old Trafford (Coffee Table Book)

The official Manchester United celebration of Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years as the club's record-breaking manager  Not only celebrating what Sir Alex Ferguson has achieved at United, this fascinating...

Marie Crowe / Behind the Lines 42 : 2021 (Large Paperback)

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Charles Watts / Revolution - The Rise of Arteta's Arsenal (Large Paperback) - 2023

The inside story of Mikel Arteta's astonishing transformation of Arsenal November 2019. Unai Emery's final game as Arsenal manager sees the Gunners languishing eighth in the league. Appointed in the...

John Scally / 101 Funny Irish Rugby Moments

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Jasper Rees / Wenger : The Making of a Manager (Hardback)

Hard Cover. Good/Good. Remainder. General wear to edges of jacket and some marks on edge of pages.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture,...

Rio Ferdinand / Thinking Out Loud: Love, Grief and Being Mum and Dad (Hardback)

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'A lacerating account ... painful but necessary' EVENING STANDARD'Beautiful & significant ... Tackles grief with honesty' DAWN FRENCH'Very important and moving...

Howard Means / Splash - 10,000 Years of Swimming (Large Paperback)

From man's first recorded dip into what's now the driest spot on earth to the splashing, sparkling pool party in your backyard, humans have been getting wet for 10,000 years. And for most of modern...

Joe Canning - My Story ( Galway GAA) - HB - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The youngest of seven children from a renowned Portumna hurling family, Joe Canning was regarded as a prodigy from the moment he stepped onto...

Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh - From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster - HB - SIGNED

Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh was best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - went far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In this 2006 book, the...

Great Moments in Irish Rugby (Coffee Table Book)

Ireland is now playing at the top table in world rugby, with clubs and country considered among the toughest around. It wasn't always like this, and for decades Ireland propped up the bottom of the...

Hayley Kilgallon - Unladylike - A History of Ladies Gaelic Football - GAA - BRAND NEW ( SEPTEMBER 2024)

The first recorded game of ladies’ Gaelic football was played in St James’ Park, Dublin, in 1920. Players competed in ankle-length skirts, watched by a sizeable crowd. But the game was not authorised...

Carl Frampton / Carl Frampton: My Autobiography (Hardback)

Belfast’s Carl ‘The Jackal’ Frampton MBE is no ordinary boxer. One of only three fighters from the British Isles to be named the  Ring Magazine  Fighter of the Year, he has headlined multiple...

John Hartson / Please Don't Go: Big John's Journey Back to Life (Hardback)

In Please Don't Go , former Celtic and Wales soccer star John Hartson documents his fight for life after being diagnosed in July 2009 with testicular cancer, which subsequently spread to his lungs...

Harry Pearson / The Far Corner : A Mazy Dribble Through North-East Football

A book in which Wilf Mannion rubs shoulders with The Sunderland Skinhead, recollections of Len Shakleton blight the lives of village shoppers, and the appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager of...

Eoghan Corry / The GAA Book of Lists: Outstanding Facts and Figures From the GAA

In The GAA Book of Lists, Eoghan Corry trawls the archives to find the bizarre, amazing, and the ridiculous, bringing together the things you never knew about Ireland's national sports.     All of...

Robert Beasley / José Mourinho: Up Close and Personal (Hardback)

The gripping biography of one of the most successful managers in the game, José Mourinho, giving a rare insight into Mourinho the man as well as Mourinho the manager.José Mourinho is undoubtedly one...

Phil Mickelson, Donald T. Phillips / One Magical Sunday (Hardback)

The author chronicles his 2004 Masters win, revealing early influences, and offering a glimpse into his personal life and relationships.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not...

Iain Carter / The Majors 2015: The Thrilling Battle For Golf's Greatest Trophies (Hardback)

With a foreword by Padraig HarringtonThe four majors are the most exciting and important events of the golfing calendar. The Masters, US Open, The Open and the PGA: these are the tournaments by which...

Bill Lee, Jim Prime / The Little Red (Sox) Book: A Revisionist Red Sox History (Hardback)

Inspired by Chairman Mao's infamous Little Red Book , “Spaceman” Bill Lee offers an off-the-wall revisionist history of baseball's most colorful franchise, the Boston Red Sox. In addition to...

Raymond Smith / High Rollers of the Turf (Large Paperback)

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Margaret Lantry / Racing Reflections: The Life and Times of Irish Racing People (Large Paperback)

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Matt Le Tissier / Playing in the Hole (Hardback)

No one can dispute that football has provided some of the funniest quotes (intentionally or not) in the history of sport. This is a comprehensive collection of these comic offerings. It includes over...

Philip Derriman / Our Don Bradman (Large Paperback)

Biographical essays on the noted cricketer Don Bradman.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good...

David Davies / FA Confidential (Large Paperback)

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Seamus McRory / The Road to Croke Park: Great GAA Personalities (Large Paperback)

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Douglas Thompson / Super Frank : Frank Lampard: The Biography of England's Greatest Footballer

''A footballer of genuine, dynamic majesty ( it says here....)  Frank Lampard is an East End boy who become a West End star, hailed by fans, players, and managers worldwide as a footballing maestro...

Tim Moore / Gironimo!: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy

The author of the bestselling French Revolutions does Italy -- cycling the course of the 1914 Giro d'Italia on a wooden bike.     On the eve of the Giro d'Italia's 100th anniversary, Tim Moore sets...

Guillem Balague / Pep Guardiola

This fully updated edition of the international bestseller includes Pep Guardiola's Bayern years and his decision to join Manchester CityPep Guardiola is the most successful and sought after football...