Sport & Sport Biography

Anon / Tales from the Secret Footballer

   FOOTBALL'S BIGGEST CHARACTERS TELL IT LIKE IT ISWho is the Secret Footballer? Well he's back and this time his mates speak out too.Players, agents, coaches and managers give you access to all...

Darren Clarke / An Open Book - My Autobiography

 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,...

Kieren Fallon / Form : My Autobiography

 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...

Micheal O Muircheartaigh / From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain : Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster

    Micheal O Muircheartaigh is best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - go far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In his new book, the...

Anon / The Secret Footballer's Guide to the Modern Game : Tips and Tactics from the Ultimate Insider

   The outspoken anonymous author is back with the ultimate book to challenge conventional footballing wisdom. With his trademark wit, intelligence and candour, the Secret Footballer will guide you...

Boris Becker / The Player

 The no-holds-barred autobiography of a sporting genius. Boris Becker shot to fame in 1985 when at seventeen years old, he became the youngest player ever to win the men's final at Wimbledon. He went...

Bradley Wiggins / In Pursuit of Glory

 Bradley Wiggins is a British sporting legend. Not only has he won seven World Track Championships and a record-equalling seven Olympic medals, including double-gold in Beijing in 2008 and gold in...

Ed Caesar / Two Hours : The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon

 WINNER OF THE CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARD FOR NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR 2016Two Hours by Ed Caesar - the quest to run the impossible marathon, by the acclaimed writer with inside access to Nike's...

Guy Martin / Guy Martin: Worms to Catch

   `I was never going to sleep in and take it easy, there were worms to catch.'Breaking records on the world's biggest Wall of Death, cycling 2,745 miles across the length of the United States...

Robin Oakley / Britain and Ireland's Top 100 Racehorses of All Time

 Kauto Star, Nijinsky, Arkle, Desert Orchid, Frankel, Red Rum ... how do you rank the best British and Irish horses from both Flat racing and jumping? How do you compare a fleet-footed sprinter with...

Ronda Rousey / My Fight Your Fight

   *WINNER British Sports Book Awards SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR*'I have this one term for the kind of woman my mother raised me not to be, and I call it a `Do-Nothing B-tch'. It's the kind of chick...

Jim White / Manchester United: The Biography : The complete story of the world's greatest football club

   75 MILLION FANS.AN ANNUAL INCOME OF MORE THAN GBP200 MILLION.AND A STORY THAT HAS NEVER FULLY BEEN TOLD - UNTIL NOW.'A wonderfully entertaining history' Sunday Telegraph'When historians 1,000...

Neil Arksey / Flint

    Imagine being a talented footballer - yet never being allowed to play? No football - ever. That's the law as laid down by Flint's bad-tempered, bullying father: a man with a dodgy back and an...

Brian O'Connor / Kings of the Saddle : Ireland's Greatest Jockeys

   The recent retirement of Mick Kinane, doyen of flat racing jockeys whose swansong was his 2009 Classic victories on the great Sea the Stars, reminded us once again how many of the greatest...

Johnny Sexton / Becoming a Lion

 Johnny Sexton - the man who pulled the strings for the Lions - gives an intimate insight into the rugby life in Becoming a Lion.With three Heineken Cups and one British and Irish Lions tour victory...

Lawrence Donegan / Four Iron in the Soul

   In this very funny sports book (a cross between Nick Hornby and Bill Bryson) young journalist Lawrence Donegan tells the story of the summer he spent caddying for Scottish golfer Ross Drummond,...

John Scally / The GAA Immortals : 100 Gaelic Games Legends

   The lore and legend of Gaelic Games has been shaped by great players. Since the Games began, special players have had a unique power to make the heart skip a beat. Now THE GAA IMMORTALS...

Kevin Markham / Driving the Green

 Mark Twain had it all wrong: golf is not a good walk spoiled, golf is a journey. And when Ireland provides the map it becomes an 11,000km odyssey for one man in a camper van. Ireland's beauty shines...

John Giles / The Great and the Good

 In The Great and the Good, Ireland's leading football pundit and legend of the game John Giles looks back on more than fifty years of football, at developments in the game from the post-War period...

John Wilcockson / 23 Days in July

 For twenty-three days in July 2004, an enthralled global audience watched Lance Armstrong battle to victory in the Tour de France. Armstrong had pledged to win a record-breaking sixth consecutive...

Raymond Smith - The Greatest Hurlers of our Time - PB 1990 GAA

Paperback, 1990, published by the author, one of the most prolific writers on GAA history , this sets ' the advance of the national game into the 1990's and to place in perspective the all time...

Liam Ó Tuama - Jack Lynch : Where He Sported and Played - A sporting Biography HB Illustrated GAA 2000

Published by Blackwater Press, 2000, this is a hardcover larger format book covering the entire GAA career of Jack Lynch, former Taoiseach and Cork stalwart, and winner of 6 All Ireland medals in a...

Guillem Balague / Pep Guardiola : Another Way of Winning

   'Pep' Guardiola has transformed Barcelona into arguably the greatest club side of all time, and this entertainingly perceptive biography explains how. Guardiola spent the majority of his playing...

Luca Caioli / Messi - 2013 Edition : The Inside Story of the Boy Who Became a Legend

   El Pibe de Oro. The Golden Boy. Diego Maradona's unwaning shadow looms large over world football. In 2007 the brilliant Argentine chose Lionel Messi as his successor to the famous No. 10 shirt...

Maarten Meijer / Louis van Gaal : The Biography

   So who is Louis van Gaal? An inflexible ex-PE teacher who only knows how to act like a dictator or a footballing visionary that has made him one of the greatest ever European managers?Wherever he...

Eoghan Corry / The Nation Holds Its Breath

    JACK CHARLTON; NIALL QUINN; JOHNNY GILES; GEORGE BEST; EAMON DUNPHY; LIAM BRADY; GEORGE HAMILTON; ROY KEANE; RAY HOUGHTON; PAUL MCGRATH; NORMAN WHITESIDE Ireland's soccer players may never...

Justine Kyle McGrath / Conversations with My Father: Jack Kyle

   Jack Kyle was the rugby giant of his time, but he was also so much more than a sporting legend.Whilst he was winning a Grand Slam and touring with the Lions, Jack Kyle was also studying to be a...

Ian Marshall / Class of 92

   The remarkable story of the youth team that transformed Manchester United.In the post-war era, Manchester United manager Matt Busby stated: 'If you want football's finest fruit, then you grow...

Michael Calvin / Living on the Volcano : The Secrets of Surviving as a Football Manager

   *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015*A man punches the wall in a strategic show of anger. Another complains he has become a stranger to those he loves. A third...

Chris Froome / The Climb

   WINNER OF THE 2018 GIRO D'ITALIA! THREE TIME WINNER OF THE TOUR DE FRANCE. THE FIRST MAN SINCE BERNARD HINAULT TO HOLD THE MAGLIA ROSA, THE MAILLOT JAUNE AND THE MAILLOT ROJO AT THE SAME TIME...

Andy Murray / Andy Murray: Seventy-Seven

    Andy Murray is one of Britain's best loved athletes. On the 7th July 2013 he became the first British man to lift the Wimbledon trophy for 77 years. His new book, Andy Murray: Seventy-Seven,...

Steward McKinney / Roars from the Back of the Bus : Rugby Tales of Life with the Lions

   Roars from the Back of the Bus is an absorbing, amusing and at times moving collection of tales that give a rare insight into the camaraderie that exists between players at the top of their game,...

Andre Tolme / Golfing Mongolia

    At the age of 35 Andre Tolme quit his job as a civil engineer and decided that it was time to see something of the world. It was during a brief stop-over in Mongolia that he became struck by...

Tom Humphries / Booked

      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...

Alex Montgomery / Martin O'Neill : The Biography

    Alex Montgomery's acclaimed biography brings O'Neill's story right up to date with an account of his first few months in charge at Aston Villa and deals with every aspect of his life and...

Gary Neville / Red: My Autobiography

   No player has been more synonymous with the glory years of Manchester United Football Club over the past two decades than right-back Gary Neville. An Old Trafford regular since he attended his...

Colm Cooper / Gooch - The Autobiography (Hardback)

 

Kieran Donaghy / What Do You Think Of That : My Autobiography (Hardback)

 

John Daniell / Confessions of a Rugby Mercenary

   John Daniell is a rubgy mercenary. A brutal word for an often brutal game. In 1996, when Rugby Union turned professional, John emigrated to France where he played for a decade in top competitions...

Eoin Hand / First Hand : My Life and Irish Football (Large Paperback)

Barry Henriques - (Editor) Kilkenny GAA Yearbook, 2017 - PB Annual

208 pages, large format paperback , fully illustrated in colour throughout . the 27th edition of the yearbook edited by Barrie Henriques.  A standard county GAA yearbook, with full detauiled coverage...

William H. Gibson - Early Irish Golf : The First Courses, Clubs and Pioneers - PB 2004

This is the only history of the development of the game in Ireland in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on it's links to military units in Ireland First edition was 1988, this reprint 1989...

Ken McGrath / Ken Mcgrath : My Autobiography (Large Paperback)

 

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

 

John O'Donohue / Eternal Echoes : Exploring Our Hunger to Belong (Hardback)

 

Luca Caioli / Messi - 2017 Updated Edition : More Than a Superstar

   Lionel Messi is the greatest footballer of our time: a magician with uncanny ability to beat defenders, find space and score goals. 2016 saw him win the Ballon d'Or for a record fifth time,...

Lauren St John / Seve : The Biography

      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...

George Best / Hard Tackles and Dirty Baths : The inside story of football's golden era

 We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others' George Best Written in the months before he died, Hard Tackles and Dirty Baths...

John Scally / Odd-Shaped Balls : Mischief-Makers Miscreants and Mad-Hatters Of Rugby

 Rugby is not a game for those who think that centres are what you find in a box of Black Magic or who confuse Jonah Lomu with Joanna Lumley. At the same time, it is not a game for the bright: what...

Chris Bonington / Ascent

 BRITAIN'S GREATEST CLIMBER.'He is the David Attenborough of mountaineering . . . Bonington's most personal memoir yet.' The Times.'This is a compelling tale of fortitude and endurance.' - The Sunday...

Nick Ward / Left For Dead

 The second edition of the Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year is updated with a new chapter describing Nick's eventual completion of the Fastnet Race thirty years after his first, ill-fated attempt...

Brian Viner / Ali Pele Lillee and Me

   Brian Viner's formative years as a sports nut coincided with what he argues was the best sporting decade of all time. The 1970s gave us the greatest football team in the history of the game...