Sport & Sport Biography

Jonathan Eig / Ali: A Life (Large Paperback)

 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE.SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR.THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR.WINNER OF THE PEN/ESPN AWARD FOR LITERARY SPORTS WRITING.THE TIMES...

Tipperary GAA Yearbook 2010 - Blianiris PB Illustrated Gaelic Games

Norman Freeman / Classic Hurling Matches: 1976-91 (Large Paperback)

 Hurling is one of the world's great field sports and this book is one of two titles which contain accounts of a selection of games from 1956 to 1991. This book reflects the variety of hurling itself. Some, like the Tipperary-Cork Munster Final of...

Guillem Balague / Messi (Large Paperback)

 Lionel Messi's career has been a stellar ascent and shows no signs as yet of slowing down. Born in Rosario in Argentina in 1987, he began playing football at a very young age, and it wasn't long before his skill and potential was noticed in Europe...

Eoin Murphy / Munster Rugby (Large Paperback)

 Rugby in Munster has grown from a minority sport to a hugely popular phenomenon, and now has a team that encapsulates the spirit of the province. The intensely fought Heineken Cup has propelled Irish rugby onto the European stage with this team...

Marcus Stead / Brian O'Driscoll : The Biography

 Brian O'Driscoll is the explosive captain of the 'golden generation' of Irish rugby and a renowned genius on the field. One of the top outside centres in the game, O'Driscoll first became captain of his country in 2003 and his phenomenal record...

Sam Torrance / Sam The Autobiography Of Sam Torrance

 Sam Torrance is one of the most popular and charismatic golfers in the world. He has spent the last three decades at the top of the professional game, but it is his exploits in the Ryder Cup that are truly astounding. As a player, he is famous for...

Pat Lynch - Clane's Golden Era : Gaelic Games 1985 - 2000 HB Kildare GAA

A hardback 1st edition history of Clane GAA, 1985-2000, by Pat Lynch - covering the County Kildare club. No ISBN, unpriced, hardcover with pictorial covers with titles in white to spine and front. Published by Clane GAA in 2007, illustrated in colour...

Alex Ferguson / Alex Ferguson : Six Years at United (Hardback)

 A biography of the football manager Alex Ferguson, concentrating on the six years he has spent in charge of Manchester United. Beginning his time there in the shadow of Sir Matt Busby, he led them to success in the 1990 FA Cup and the European Cup...

Eamon Dunphy / Strange Kind of Glory : Life of Sir Matt Busby and Manchester United (Hardback)

 This biography of Sir Matt Busby is, in many ways, also the story of Manchester United and the parallel rise and fall of English football over the last 50 years. The book contains revelations about the Munich Air Crash and the strained relationship...

Bill McLaren / The Voice of Rugby : My Autobiography (Hardback)

 As well reliving the highlights of his illustrious career as a commentator, Bill talks of the game today and his regrets that rugby went professional. He is a fierce critic of what this has led to and fears for the future health and safety of rugby...

Pele / Pele: The Autobiography (Hardback)

 Even people who don't know football know Pele. The best of a generation of Brazilian players universally acknowledged as the most accomplished and attractive group of footballers ever to play the game, he won the World Cup three times and is...

Ian Thorpe / This Is Me : The Autobiography (Hardback)

 Ian Thorpe's achievements in the water are nothing short of phenomenal. He has won a record-holding eleven World Championship titles and ten Commonwealth Games gold medals. He has broken twenty-two world records and won five gold, three silver and...

Sean Kelly / Rule 42 and All That (Hardback) GAA

 From boyhood days in his local GAA field at Kilcummin, Co. Kerry, to the office of President of the GAA, Sean Kelly reflects on how he came to lead one of the most dramatic, debate-provoking changes in modern Ireland - opening the doors of Croke...

Tony McCoy / The Real McCoy! : My Life So Far (Hardback)

 At the age of only 22, Tony McCoy is already Champion Jockey, defeating established stars like Richard Dunwoody. This book traces his life from his childhood in County Antrim to his wins at Cheltenham and Aintree and holding the record for the...

Kieron Fallon / Form : My Autobiography (Hardback)

 THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS INTERNATIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEARKieren Fallon was one of the world's greatest jockeys, but his career was littered with controversial incidents. Now, in his powerful and honest autobiography, he tells all.'The most...

Peter Stringer / Pulling the Strings : My Autobiography (Hardback)

 When Peter Stringer played youth rugby, he was so small that people told his parents he shouldn't be allowed on the pitch. Fortunately for Munster and for Ireland, they paid no attention. Over 200 provincial caps and 98 international caps later,...

Darren Clarke / An Open Book - My Autobiography (Hardback)

 A golfer loved for his courage and charisma, Darren Clarke has the crowds behind him.They know he is a warm, funny raconteur who likes a Guinness, who both works hard and plays hard. More important, they know that this man pulled himself up by his...

Sean Og O Ceallachain / Giants of Gaelic Football : 50 All-Time Greats (Hardback)

 Because of their successes, the premier football counties occupy a very prominent position in the book. Not forgotten, however, are the large numbers of great players who did their counties proud on representative teams but sadly never achieved...

Philly McMahon / The Choice (Hardback)

 When Dublin footballer lost his older brother John in 2012, it brought to an end a painful decade, during which John had slipped from the family circle into a deteriorating cycle of addiction. The effects were personally devastating, but amidst the...

David Beckham / My Side - The Autobiography (Hardback)

 With endless newspaper column inches devoted to one of the most talked about men in the world, it seems that we know everything there is to know about David Beckham. Or do we? This is Beckham's life story in his own words. The book deals with his...

Marcus Trescothick / Coming Back to Me : The Autobiography (Hardback)

 A true-life sporting memoir of one of the best batsman in the game who stunned the cricket world when he prematurely ended his own England career. Trescothick's brave and soul-baring account of his mental frailties opens the way to a better...

Ian Botham / Head On - Ian Botham : The Autobiography (Hardback)

 Ian Botham, voted the cricketer of the 20th century by the fans, was a genuine all-rounder who, when on form, was simply unstoppable. In his miraculous early career, he broke all the records such as: the fastest ever all-rounder to achieve the...

John White / Manchester United Miscellany (Hardback)

 There is something for every United fan in The Official Manchester United Miscellany. The world-famous club has a widely diverse and amazingly successful history, but this book is neither a history, nor a fan's or collector's guide, nor a...

John Scally / GAA Fun and Games : Quotes, Jokes, Hits and Misses (Hardback)

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John Scally / Raising the Banner: Ger Loughnane, Official Biography (Large Paperback) Clare GAA

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Stephen Roche / Born to Ride (Large Paperback)

 On 6 September 1987, Stephen Roche touched greatness. Victory at the World Cycling Championship in Austria completed a near-unprecedented `triple crown' that included triumphs in the same year at the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia. In April,...

Finbarr McCarthy / Bainisteoir: The Ten Greatest GAA Managers (Large Paperback)

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Wayne Rooney / My Decade in the Premier League (Large Paperback)

 'My Decade in the Premier League' is Wayne's first hand account of his 10 years playing at the highest level in English football - and for the biggest club in the world. This is his inside story of life on the pitch for Manchester Utd; the League...

McRory, Seamus - The Voice From the Sideline : Famous GAA Managers - 1997

Paperback some minor creases to corners on back covers.  Follows the gaelic football careers of some of teh managers who have contributed to the development of the game in the 30 years up to publication ( 1997) - Seán Boylan, Kevin...

Henry Blofeld / Cricket and All That

 This is a compelling and irreverent account of a sport that originated in 16th century England and was then gradually fed to the British Empire; nowadays, of course England are regularly outplayed by most of the commonwealth countries. The author's...

Lawrence Dallaglio / Dallaglio's Rugby Tales

 In RUGBY TALES, Lawrence Dallaglio recalls with affection and razor-sharp humour, the behind-the-scenes stories that have previously only been shared within the world of international rugby, together with some classics from his rugby-playing...

Jeremy Whittle / Bad Blood : The Secret Life of the Tour de France

 For Jeremy Whittle, there isn't much in life as spectacular as the Tour de France: sweat-streaked, taut and burnished athletes toiling across vast and ancient European landscapes, hundreds of thousands of fans lining the route. And then there are...

Chris Hoy / Chris Hoy: The Autobiography

 Fully updated to include Sir Chris Hoy's incredible, record-breaking golds at London 2012 (making him his country's greatest ever Olympian), this is the story of a sporting legend in his own words.Fully updated to include Sir Chris Hoy's...

Graeme Obree / Flying Scotsman

 The story of a cyclist who took on the world and rewrote the record books. Graeme's story starts with his tough upbringing in Ayrshire, where he found his escape by taking to the roads. He tells the story of how he became a world record breaker,...

Celia Walden / Babysitting George

 August, 2003. Celia Walden, a young reporter, receives an unusual phone call from her editor. She is to drop everything and fly to Malta in an attempt to track down a legendary footballer and keep him from the press. George Best, an alcoholic with...

Jamie Carragher / Carra: My Autobiography

 For the Anfield faithful, Jamie Carragher represents everything that is great about Liverpool Football Club, prompting the Kop to sing 'we all dream of a team of Carraghers'. The club's vice-captain, longest-serving player and one of a select band...

Chuck Liddell / Iceman

 The "New York Times" bestseller from the baddest man on the planet?with photos and a brand new chapter. Chuck Liddell is the face of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and superstar of Mixed Martial Arts -- the fastest growing sport in America. In...

Michael C. DeLisa / Cinderella Man : The James J. Braddock Story

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Ben Cohen / All About Acol

 Suitable for the beginner to intermediate level, this is an updated edition of a popular bridge book.     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...

P.J Cunningham / A.N. Other

 Short stories based on Gaelic sports.     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 condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we...

Keith Duggan / The Lifelong Season

 Hurrah for Keith Duggan, a GAA writer with the Irish Times, and his debut opus, The Lifelong Season. Duggan's book is a tour through the GAA world, looking at the men and woman who have shaped and are shaping the organisation. It's a tour through a...

Lawrence Dallagio / It's in the Blood - Rugby Biography

 As a Premiership, World Cup and Grand Slam winner, no one better embodies the charisma and the colour of English rugbys greatest era than Lawrence Dallaglio. He has some story to tell, not just of the formidable exploits on the field, but an...

Patrick Barclay / Football - Bloody Hell! : The Biography of Alex Ferguson

 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2011 Sir Alex Ferguson is the most controversial and compelling figure in football. For many he ranks as the greatest manager of all time. He is certainly the most successful.It's been more than...

Paul O'Connell / The Battle

 The revelatory autobiography of a rugby colossus: Paul O'Connell. WINNER OF THE CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARDS RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEARThere has never been a rugby player quite like Paul O'Connell. He is synonymous with passion, heart and determination;...

John Gorman - Gory Tales - The Autobiography - SIGNED HB Football, Tottenham , Celtic, Scotland England

A signed hardcover first edition of footballer and coach John Gorman's autobiography Gory Tales, and given who he played for and managed over the years - he knew almost everyone of note in teh English and Scottish game - Jock stein, Kenny Dalglish,...

Steve Redgrave / A Golden Age

 In 2003 the British public voted Sir Steven Redgrave the Golden Sports Personality of the last fifty years. A fitting award for Britain's most successful Olympian ever, who on 23 September 2000 entered the record books as the only athlete ever to...

George Best / Good the Bad and the Bubbly

 At 19, George Best achieved footballing fame and fortune. Less than ten years later he walked out of Manchester United, into a world of lurid newspaper headlines, wild affairs, court appearances and battles with alcohol addiction. Best here gives...

Alex Ferguson / Managing My Life: My Autobiography

 This book is about the beginning of Sir Alex's football career, until the year 2000. 1999 was an outstanding year for Alex Ferguson - not only did he lead Manchester United, the most glamorous club in the world, to a unique and outstanding treble...

The Rock Says

 The autobiography of the youngest and coolest World Wrestling Federation champion in history and the most electrifying man in sports- entertainment.In this action-packed, revealing and outrageously funny memoir, the WWF superstar The Rock recounts...

Andy Gray / Gray Matters : My Autobiography

 Andy Gray has been at the forefront of British football for over three decades. Now, for the first time, he tells his own remarkable story, and that of the modern game. From a fanatical footballing household in Glasgow, Andy worked his way to...

Eddie Ryan / The Little Book of Rugby Facts

 In 'The Little Book of Rugby Facts' Eddie Ryan has gathered together a treasure trove of knowledge about a nation's passion. The book charts the history of Irish and world rugby, blending amazing stories and unique facts, records and outstanding...