Rugby & Rugby Biography

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...

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

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

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...

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 (Large Paperback)

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John Griffiths / Rugby's Strangest Matches: Extraordinary but True Stories from Over a Century of Rugby (Large Paperback)

Rugby fans will delight in this extraordinary collection of astonishing true stories from the past 130 years, which reveal a bizarre side to the sport hitherto uncelebrated. Here you'll find the...

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 Kirwan / All Blacks Don't Cry - A Story of Hope (Large Paperback)

John Kirwan was one of the most devastating wingers New Zealand, and world, rugby had ever seen. A prominent and revered figure at the dawn of the professional age of rugby, he seemed to live a...

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

 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 / 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 / The Six Nations Rugby Miscellany (Hardback)

  There is something for every rugby union fan in "The Six Nations Rugby Miscellany". Within these pages, the reader will learn hundreds of fascinating facts about the Six Nations...

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...

Johnny Sexton / Becoming a Lion (Hardback)

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Johnny Sexton / Obsessed: The Autobiography (Hardback)

No Irish rugby player has ever achieved more, or been a source of more inspiration to teammates and fans alike, than Johnny Sexton. All of this would have seemed highly unlikely as late as May 2009,...

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...

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...

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,...

Liam Hayes / The Master : Declan Kidney (Large Paperback)

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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...

Liam O'Callaghan / Blood and Thunder - Rugby and Irish Life : A History (Hardback)

Liam O'Callaghan's revelatory Blood and Thunder shows that the rise of Irish rugby is inextricable from the tensions, debates and divisions - of politics, religion and class - that have defined...

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...

Mark Ryan / World Rugby (Large Paperback)

The Greatest Rugby Moments & Players of the Last 100 Years Ever since England's 2003 World Cup triumph, when 750,000 people gathered in central London to greet the returning heroes, and with the...

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 (Large Paperback)

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

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