Rugby & Rugby Biography

John Carlin / Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation

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John Griffiths , Mick Cleary / IRB International Rugby Yearbook 2001-02 (Large Paperback)

This yearbook is a comprehensive review of events in rugby union over the past season and beyond. It focuses on international rugby but with a full coverage of domestic club rugby. This first edition...

John Griffiths / Rugby's Strangest Matches (Large Paperback)

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John Hayes / The Bull: My Story (Hardback)

John 'The Bull' Hayes is an Irish rugby legend. Keith Wood calls him a 'rugby giant', Donncha O'Callaghan calls him 'the heart and soul of the team', but Hayes is adored as much for his down-to-earth...

John Scally - The Good the Bad and the Rugby - The Official Biography of Tony Ward - PB 1993

Tony Ward is a former Irish rugby union and football player during the 1970s and 1980s. He played rugby as a flyhalf for Munster, Ireland, the Lions and Barbarians. Ward was chosen as 1979 European...

John Scally / 100 Funny Irish Rugby Moments (Large Paperback)

Irish rugby's most hilarious and outrageous moments 100 Funny Irish Rugby Moments is a collection of priceless anecdotes from the field, with interviews from Moss Keane, Mick Galwey, Peter Clohessy...

John Scally / 100 Great Irish Rugby Moments (Large Paperback)

 Here are Irish Rugby's most legendary, celebratory and brilliant moments from the 1940s to today.100 Great Irish Rugby Moments is a unique celebration of the sport's most significant moments...

John Scally / 101 Funny Irish Rugby Moments

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John Scally / 101 Great Irish Rugby Moments

 Here are Irish Rugby's most legendary, celebratory and brilliant moments from the 1940s to today. 101 Great Irish Rugby Moments is a unique celebration of the sport's most significant moments...

John Scally / Legends of Irish Rugby (Hardback)

   Based on exclusive interviews with 40 celebrated players, past and present, Legends of Irish Rugby is a veritable who's who of the sport. The top personalities of the Irish game take...

John Scally / Odd-shaped Balls: Mischief-makers, Miscreants and Mad-hatters of Rugby (Hardback)

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. Indeed it is not a game for the bright: what kind of...

John Scally / The Giants of Irish Rugby League (Hardback)

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John Scally / The Good Bad and the Rugby (Large Paperback)

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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...

Johnny Sexton / Becoming a Lion (Hardback)

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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...

Karl Johnston - The Lions in Winter : British and Irish Lions in New Zealand 1983

Hardcover,  Account of the Lions tour 1983, written by the then rugby correrspondent the Irish Press, Karl Johnston ( the Lions lost all tests to the All Blacks)  HB, George Allen and Unwin...

Kate Rowan / Six Nations, Two Stories (Large Paperback)

 A celebration of Ireland's greatest rugby yearRelive, game by game, the key moments in Ireland's historic 2015 Six Nations campaign, which culminated in a nerve-shredding final weekend when...

Keith Earls / Fight or Flight : My Life (Hardback)

 Keith Earls started out in senior rugby as a teenage star and during the course of his long career has become one of the most admired and respected players of his generation.A British &...

Kurt Kullmann / Rugby Town: The Sporting History of D4 (Large Paperback)

Dublin 4, probably best-known in sporting terms as the spiritual home of Leinster Rugby, has one of the highest densities of diverse sports clubs in all of Ireland. In this new work from Kurt...

Kyle Justine McGrath / Conversations with My Father: Jack Kyle (Large Paperback)

 Jack Kyle was the rugby giant of his time, but he is 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...

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...

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,...

Lawrence Dallaglio / More Blood, Sweat and Beers: World Cup Rugby Tales (Hardback)

International rugby legend Lawrence Dallaglio returns with another collection of heroic tales from his time at rugby's biggest tournament in World Cup Rugby Tales  World...

Liam O'Callaghan - Rugby in Munster : A Social and Cultural History - HB - 2011

Covering the period from the game’s origins in Ireland in the 1870s through to the onset of professional rugby in the twenty-first century, this book seeks to examine Munster rugby within the...

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...

Marcus Stead / Brian O'Driscoll: In BOD We Trust

Dublin boy Brian O'Driscoll is an internationally admired rugby player and an Irish hero. Educated at Blackrock College, the alma mater of many Irish greats, his ambition was always to represent...

Mark Keohane / Chester: A Biography of Courage (Large Paperback)

Chester Mornay Williams was a South African rugby union player. He played as a winger for the South Africa national rugby union team from 1993 to 2000, most notably for the team that won the 1995...

Martin Johnson / Martin Johnson: the autobiography (Hardback)

An insightful, revealing and riveting biography of a true English rugby legend.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of...

Matt Dawson / Matt Dawson's Lions Tales (Hardback)

 Matt Dawson's Lions Tales gives rugby fans a satisfying dose of wonderful Lions anecdotes, epic stories of triumph and despair, of camaraderie and controversy, and stirring examples of that...

Matt Elliott / The Original All Blacks Captain (Large Paperback)

  A brilliant rugby player and a war veteran, Dave Gallaher symbolizes the two elements on which New Zealand formed its identity: our wartime triumphs and disasters, and our peacetime success...

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...

Mick Doyle / Doyler (Large Paperback)

This is the autobiography of Mick Doyle's first 50 years. A rugby international and coach, husband, lover, vet and businessman, he has been described as one of the great characters of Irish life...

Mick Galwey / Galwey - The Autobiography (Hardback)

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Mick Galwey / Galwey The Autobiography (Large Paperback)

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Mike Ross / Dark Arts (Large Paperback)

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Mike Ross / Dark Arts (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Moss Keane / Rucks Mauls and Gaelic Football (Hardback)

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Nick Popplewell / Poppy: Time to ruck and roll (Large Paperback)

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Owen Doyle / The Ref's Call: A Rugby Memoir (Large Paperback)

'A genuine presence on the field, Owen refereed with the perfect balance of respect and authority' Keith Wood'Highly respected with vast experience and knowledge, Owen Doyle contributed hugely to the...

Patrick O'Reilly / Rala : A Life in Rugby

   Irish rugby as you've never seen it before -- from the man who got the job every rugby lover would love to have.'Rala has a gift for making people feel at ease and special at the same...

Patrick O'reilly / Rala: A Life in Rugby (Large Paperback)

Rala has a gift for making people feel at ease and special at the same time' Paul O'Connell Patrick 'Rala' O'Reilly has been bagman for the Irish rugby team for nearly twenty years. In that time he's...

Paul Kimmage / Engage: The Fall and Rise of Matt Hampson

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL PRIZE CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR 2011 'Engage!' was the last word Matt Hampson heard before dislocating his neck while in rugby training with...

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...

Paul O'Connell / The Battle (Hardback)

There has never been a rugby player quite like Paul O'Connell. His name is synonymous with passion, heart and determination. But he is also the thinking man's rugby player, a legendary student of the...

Paul O'Connell / The Battle (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)...

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Peter Bills / Le Coq: A Journey to the Heart of French Rugby (Hardback)

From French rugby's origins in Le Havre, (as an English export in the late nineteenth century) to the Catalan coast, acclaimed rugby writer Peter Bills travels the length and breadth of this vast...

Peter Bills / Rucking & Rolling : 60 Years of International Rugby (Coffee Table Book)

Since the Second World War the sport has burgeoned into a multi-million euro business and this book follows the rise of the sport, from the first and only Irish Grand Slam in 1948 to the great...

Peter Breen & Sportsfie - Rhapsody in Blue - Leinster's 2010-11 European Cup - HB - Rugby - Heineken Cup

It was late when Leinster coach Joe Schmidt got to bed after his team’s unforgettable Heineken Cup final comeback against Northampton Saints in the Millennium Stadium on May 21, 2011. But...

Peter FitzSimons / Nick Farr-Jones : The Authorised Biography (Hardback)

This is the autobiography of one of Australia's most celebrated rugby union captains. It tells the story of the development and achievements of the much lauded world championship team as well as an...

Rex Hazeldine / The RFU Guide to Fitness for Rugby (Large Paperback)

   The Rugby Football Union's guide to the importance of fitness in the game and the best ways to achieve necessary fitness levels. It includes sections structuring a fitness programme,...

Rhodri Davies / Undefeated: The Story of the 1974 Lions (Large Paperback)

  This is the untold story of the most successful British and Irish Lions tour in history. The 1974 party are the only Lions ever to emerge undefeated. To mark the 40th anniversary of their...