Rugby & Rugby Biography

Ian McGeechan / The Lions: When the Going Gets Tough

   Fully updated to contain Sir Ian McGeechan's reflections on the 2017 Lions tour to New Zealand.2017 saw the latest contest between the British Lions and New Zealand - the ultimate rugby...

Ian McGeechan / The Lions: When the Going Gets Tough (Large Paperback)

 Sir Ian McGeechan is the 'Ultimate Lion'. Nobody's name resonates louder with the Lions than his.In 2017 the British and Irish Lions face one of the toughest tours in history - taking on the...

Ian Robertson / The Complete Book of the Rugby World Cup 1995 (Coffee Table Book)

An illustrated account of the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. Readers can relive all the highlights through the eyes of those taking part such as Rob Andrew, Gavin Hastings and David Campese. A...

James Haskell / What a Flanker (Large Paperback)

‘Hilarious, and straight talking but also articulate and insightful – I am just hugely fond of this guy’–Eddie Jones‘I’d like to be remembered as a player who...

James Kerr / Legacy (Large Paperback)

Champions do extra.They sweep the sheds.They follow the spearhead.They keep a blue head.They are good ancestors.In Legacy, best-selling author James Kerr goes deep into the heart of the world's most...

Jamie Heaslip / All In (Hardback)

 Jamie Heaslip is one of the most decorated players in the history of Irish rugby. Over the course of a 13-year career, during which time he amassed 229 appearances for Leinster and 100...

Joe Schmidt / Ordinary Joe

 'He's a great coach. He lives and breathes the game. There's nothing he doesn't know' Brian O'Driscoll'The best coach Irish rugby - arguably Irish sport - has ever had' Malachy Clerkin, Irish...

Joe Schmidt / Ordinary Joe (Hardback)

 'He's a great coach. He lives and breathes the game. There's nothing he doesn't know.' Brian O'Driscoll'The best coach Irish rugby - arguably Irish sport - has ever had'Malachy Clerkin, Irish...

John Carlin / Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

In June 1995, Nelson Mandela conquered the hearts of white South Africa and united his country, black and white, behind their rugby team. This book tells the extraordinary story of the journey to...

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 (Hardback)

 Rugby fans will delight in this astonishing collection of outlandish stories from the past 150 years of the game. Here you'll find, among many other curious events, the Irish international who...

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

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John Hayes / The Bull: My Story

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...

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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Jonny Wilkinson / Lions and Falcons : My Diary of a Remarkable Year

Jonny Wilkinson has set the rugby world alight since his international debut in 1998. In this revealing diary of the 2000-01 season, he takes the reader behind the scenes of his career at...

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

 Fight Or My Life, My Choices is the autobiography of Irish rugby legend Keith Earls.  Keith Earls started out in senior rugby as a teenage star and during the course of his long career has...

Kieran Read / Straight 8 : The Autobiography (Hardback)

As Kieran Read called time on his distinguished New Zealand career at the end of the Rugby World Cup, this is the open and honest life story of one of rugby's greatest players, a legendary All Black...

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...

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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Moss Keane / Rucks, Mauls and Gaelic Football

  This is a thoroughly enjoyable read and a great insight into the man behind the legend.Moss Keane is undoubtedly one of the great characters of Irish rugby, part of a unique fraternity who...

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...