Rugby & Rugby Biography

George Hook - This is Rugby - HB - SIGNED - 2013

'Even in those early days, I resolved not to be a fan but to be an analyst' George Hook Who is the greatest Irish rugby player of all time? What was the best Irish Grand Slam team? Who are the...

George Hook / This Is Rugby (Coffee Table Book)

Even in those early days, I resolved not to be a fan but to be an analyst' George Hook Who is the greatest Irish rugby player of all time? What was the best Irish Grand Slam team? Who are the game's...

George Hook / Time Added On. (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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Gerard Siggins & Malachy Clerkin - Lansdowne Road - The Stadium , The Matches - The Greatest Days - PB - 2010

Lansdowne Road has long been renowned as a sacred place for international rugby and soccer. In this affectionate history, the authors lift the lid on its greatest days and nights. From the birth of...

Gerry Thornley / Front Up Rise Up : The Official Story of Connacht Rugby (Hardback)

 For years they were the Cinderella province, the poor relations and the weakest link in Irish rugby, the so-called Development Province, who had never won a senior trophy since their foundation...

Gordon D'Arcy / Gordon's Game (Hardback)

 A rugby-mad boy. A huge game. And a chance for an epic win . . . or an epic fail!Gordon D'Arcy is an ordinary boy, but he's not so ordinary once he gets a rugby ball in his hands. He's the star...

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...

Howard Johnson / The Rugby Union Manual (Coffee Table Book)

An exciting addition to the range of Haynes manuals, this is the complete guide to training for and playing Rugby Union, fully supported and endorsed by the Rugby Football Union. From health and...

Hugh Farrelly / Munster - Rugby Giants (Coffee Table Book)

In this work, Hugh Farrelly examines the rise and rise of Munster and their place in the pantheon of rugby greats. Unique full-colour photographs set out to capture the determination, stamina,...

Iain Spragg / The Random History of Rugby (Hardback)

  A lot of rucking and mauling has gone on since William Webb Ellis first picked up the ball and ran, but this doughty little book heroically manages to capture the true essence of the daddy...

Ian McGeechan / Lion Man : The Autobiography (Hardback)

 In an era when even the finest rugby coaches have a drastically short shelf-life, Ian McGeechan's longevity and adaptability is staggering. In his 20 years at the highest level of the game he...

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 McKinley - Second Sight : Rugby& Redemption ( Signed by the Author ) 2022

Co-written with Gerry Thornley , published by Reach Sport, 2022.  Signed, undedicated.  hortlisted for RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEAR at the SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 ★★★★★ Rugby's long history is...

Ian McKinley / Second Sight ( Signed by the Author ) (Large Paperback)

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Ian Mckinley / Second Sight - Rugby & Redemption(Large Paperback)

Rugby's long history is full of tales of inspirational courage. Yet there has never been a rugby player quite as remarkable, quite as jaw-droppingly brave, as Ian McKinley. On January 16, 2010, the...

James Haskell / What a Flanker (Hardback)

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Hilarious, and straight talking but also articulate and insightful – I am just hugely fond of this guy’–Eddie Jones ‘James what a flanker,...

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...

Jeff Connor / Once Were Lions (Hardback)

 Drawing on first hand interviews from more than 75 British Lions tourists since the golden age of the fifties, this book captures what it means to be a British Lions rugby player - the historic...

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

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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 (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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John Hayes / The Bull. (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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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 / 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 / 100 Irish Rugby Greats

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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

 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:...

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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John White, Phillip Vine / A Miscellany of Rugby's World Cup: Facts, History, Statistics and Trivia 1987–2019 (Hardback)

A Miscellany of Rugby's World Cup (Facts, History, Statistics and Trivia 1987-2019) will transport you directly into the thrilling history of the greatest event in global rugby union. Here's a...

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...

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 : 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...

Malachy Clerkin / Lansdowne Road: The Stadium; the matches; the greatest days (Coffee Table Book)

Lansdowne Road has long been renowned as a sacred place for international rugby and soccer. In this affectionate history, the authors lift the lid on its greatest days and nights.From the birth of...