Sports & Recreation

Formula One is speed, glamour, danger - and eye-watering wealth. Driven: The Men Who Made Formula One tells how a small group of extraordinary men transformed Formula One from a niche sport played out on primitive tracks surrounded by hay bales and grass...

Celebrate Formula One's most iconic drivers with this exploration of their triumphs and tragedies. Featuring high-quality photography and insight from renowned F1 journalist Tony Dodgins. At the heart of Formula One lies the triumphs and tragedies of the...

This is a selected guidebook of ski tours in the European Alps. We have chosen classic ski tours at a variety of grades spread through the Alps, with some well known venues and others not on the radar of British ski tourers. The 22 places selected have...

'I envy no body but him, and him only, that catches more fish than I do.' A unique celebration of the English countryside and the most famous book on angling ever published, Walton's Compleat Angler first appeared in 1653. In 1676, at Walton's...

The ultimate guide to women's football! This epic guide to the glorious game covers everything from player profiles to top tournaments and super skills - and a million things in between! Take a tour through...

A TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR'A treasure of recollections and reactions, talking heroes, controversies and big themes' i paper'Brearley is at his best in these quirky, delightful essays when he is exploring the human qualities of humbler players . . ...

Live pain free and maximize your training potential! The Modern Art and Science of Mobility is a striking visual guide to releasing muscle tension and activating muscles for functional motion. It goes beyond traditional training methods that focus on...

AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR An extraordinary book by a man with a unique and inspiring perspective, SCARP will change the way you view the places and spaces around you, and reveal a forgotten London you never knew existed.Nick Papadimitriou has spent...

'The gripping story of England's transformation from prissy blockers to double world champions' The Times 'A must-read for any cricket lover' Nasser Hussain, Former England captain and Sky Sports commentator The inside story of how England...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345510457Author Monty RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

When Pep Guardiola was appointed Manchester City boss in the summer of 2016, the dawning of a new age began. It is a glorious time to be a Manchester City fan and 'Notes on a Season 2021/22 - Champions Again' provides a unique glimpse into one of the...

Longlisted for William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2020'This pioneering memoir . . . engagingly balances the highs of captaincy and grand slams with striking emotional honesty as to herregrets' Guardian Books of the Year'Her struggle is that of women's...

Nile Wilson first shot to fame in 2014, when he became the only British gymnast to win five gold medals at the European Junior Gymnastics Championships. The same year, he won four medals as a senior in the Commonwealth Games and is the current...

Stuck in a corporate job rut and an unraveling marriage, Roz Savage realized that if she carried on as she was, she wasn't going to end up with the life she wanted. So she turned her back on an eleven-year career as a management consultant to reinvent...

For 150 years the FA Cup has been at the heart of English sport. From Stanley Matthews to Bob Stokoe, Bert Trautmann to Arsene Wenger and Ronnie Radford to Billy the white horse - its heroes, myths and legends form the fabric of our national game. The...

Learning to ride should be fun, progressive and constructive, but all too often children can be frightened or put off. Teaching them is not easy. This book offers advice, exercises, lesson plans, games and teaching tips designed to provide variety and...

Written by experienced PE teachers and examiners, this Student Book has been carefully designed to be highly visual, accessible, and practical. Matching the new Level 1/2 Vocational Award, for first teaching from September 2022, it offers high quality...

WINNER OF THE JOHN AVERY AWARD AT THE ANDRE SIMON AWARDS If we can save the salmon, we can save the world Over the centuries, salmon have been a vital resource, a dietary staple and an irresistible catch. But there is so much more to this...

The Routledge Handbook of Elite Sport Performance is the first book to examine a broad span of performance and support issues in contemporary elite sport; including coaching, sports science and medicine, leadership and management, operating in different...

'Probably the biggest story in football of the last decade ... Reads like a Cold War thriller.' - Best Football Books of 2019, FourFourTwo ***One anonymous football fan.18.6 million confidential documents. The explosive story of the shady underworld of...

When UK Sport removed funding for women's BMX, Bethany Shriever's dream of Olympic glory seemed shattered. Throw in the impact of a broken leg sustained in childhood, plus an untimely arm injury weeks before the final Olympic qualification event, and few...

It's summer, Royal Ascot, and life is good for young trainer Simon Waterford. He has inherited his father's top-class yard, his brilliant two-year-old has just won the Coventry Stakes and he is soon to marry his beautiful half-Brazilian girlfriend. But...

Kirk Deeter of Field & Stream and Charlie Meyers of the Denver Post, crack open their notebooks and share expert advice on flies, casting, reading the water, and much more.The mission of The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing is to demystify and...

From his home in the Cairngorms of Scotland, in There's Always the Hills Cameron McNeish reflects on a life dedicated to the outdoors. A prolific author, McNeish has led treks in the Himalayas and Syria, edited The Great Outdoors magazine, establishing...

The hilarious memoir from the funniest man in football!Roddy Collins is a football man - now in the sixth decade of a career as a player (at sixteen clubs), manager (twelve clubs) and commentator. And he is a funny man: an unequalled raconteur with a...

What separates the good from the truly great players? How do football managers get the best out of their team?How do you come back from a crushing defeat to win? In How to Win The Secret Footballer teams up with The Secret Psychologist to crack the...

The ideal resource for athletes age forty and older who seek faster times and fewer injuriesAbout the AuthorDon Fink is an internationally known triathlon and running coach/trainer and the author of the popular triathlon training book, Be IronFit:...

'For those of you missing your football fix, anything by Michael Calvin is worth a read - the hugely respected sports journalist writes eloquently about the modern game in page turner State of Play.'DAILY...

Perform to your potential with proven mental training techniques! Achieving Excellence: Mastering the Mindset for Peak Performance in Sport and Life offers a variety of peak performance strategies to help athletes, coaches, and performers of all kinds...

Mooresy: The Fighter's Fighter is the life story of one of Britain's most-loved boxers. Not always an angelic teen and a product of the 'Salford Overspill', Jamie Moore was sucked into the slipstream of the thrill which came with car theft. At 15, his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913089429Author Keith BluemelFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Porter Press InternationalPublisher Porter Press International

This guide contains 20 circular walks in the Cotswolds, covering the very best of the area's wide-ranging landscape - from the heights of Uley Bury to the tranquil beauty of the water meadows near Sherborne; through stunning villages and along meandering...

ne in the Peak District: Top 10 Walks series. Handy, pocket-sized, full colour walking guides written by experts.With clear information, an overview and introduction for each walk, expertly written numbered directions, large scale Ordnance Survey maps,...

If the wider, football-conscious world is aware of just two things about Scottish football, they are surely as follows: firstly, that there is a virulent rivalry in Glasgow between the city's two great teams, Rangers and Celtic, based on a religious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954832186Author Neil BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint Brampton Manor BooksPublisher Brampton Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739106102Author Bob WaterhouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Blue Horizon PressPublisher Blue Horizon Press

Bike London is the definitive guide to cycling in the UK's capital. The cycling culture in London is constantly evolving and this book offers an indispensable resource for the city's bike users - whether they're weather-hardened commuters who...

A miscellany of minor works.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king...

Today, yachts are often equipped with radar, GPS, chart plotters, AIS, etc. This equipment has also become much more reliable, making it possible to make long offshore passages without a great knowledge of navigation. However, such equipment can be set...

Cotton, Cricket and Football: Billy Cook, the Life of a Lancashire League Legend is the colourful story of one of Lancashire's greatest sportsmen of the pre-war era, told from the perspective of his daughter, a mill-worker in Burnley. Billy Cook played...