Sports & Recreation

The Sports Rehabilitation Therapists' Guidebook is a well-equipped, comprehensive, practical, evidence-based guide that seeks to assist both students and graduate sport practitioners. The book is designed to be a quick-reference book during assessment...

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShortlisted for the Wellcome Book PrizeIn this groundbreaking new book, Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the...

The Miracle is the inside story of how Greece shocked the footballing world by winning the 2004 European Championship. This incredible underdog tale shows how these 150-1 outsiders went from a team given no chance to being crowned kings of Europe,...

The first man to set foot on the summit of Everest, the man who led a team of tractors to the South Pole, the man who jetboated up the Ganges from the ocean to the sky has, for the first time, gathered all the remarkable adventures of a long life into...

'He appeared, without a word, in the tent's entrance, covered in ice. He looked like anyone would after spending over twenty-four hours in a hurricane at over 8,000 metres. In winter. In the Karakoram. He was so exhausted he couldn't speak.'Of all the...

Burnley, Champions Again! tells the story of the incredible promotion season that Vincent Kompany inspired and organised at Burnley FC. At the end of season 2021/22 the club found themselves relegated and managerless. With players wanting to leave, the...

Pironi: The Champion that Never Was relates the remarkable story of motor racing's forgotten man, ex-Ferrari F1 driver and offshore powerboat racer, Didier Pironi. The book charts an incredible journey which took the young Parisian to the heights of...

A cult football figure, Vince Hilaire's career spanned over 600 games and took in spells at Crystal Palace, Portsmouth, Leeds United and Stoke City, playing in every professional division as well as for England at Youth and Under 21 levels. Hilaire...

A football season ticket is one hell of a commitment! It's okay if you're guaranteed a good time - sexy football and three points a la Manchester City - but supporting a club of West Ham's stature is a marriage of convenience. In Fortune's Always Hiding,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910758434Author Chris ScaifeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Stobart Davies LtdPublisher Stobart Davies Ltd

The South African tour of England in 1960 was far from ordinary. The Springboks, under captain Jackie McGlew - and with fine players like Roy McLean, Hugh Tayfield and Neil Adcock - arrived full of confidence, but that confidence was quickly shaken. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953364886Author David Brian PlummerFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Coch-y-Bonddu BooksPublisher Coch-y-Bonddu Books

'This terrific biography...well-researched, well written' David Winner 'Deeply researched...nicely written, and manages to get inside Cruyff's very bizarre head' Simon Kuper Argumentative, brilliant, arrogant, visionary. Johan Cruyff was one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984771684Author Colin HatcherFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Tyrant IndustriesPublisher Tyrant IndustriesWeight(grams) 660g

"Everything creaks and bends in heavy seas - what will not bend will simply snap. So many times I wondered how much load we could carry in a powerful storm without breaking apart. If we flooded any faster I would drown in seconds." Patrick Dixon spent...

The Great Days of Sunderland should be compulsory reading for every Black Cats fan. After a grim few years, it's important to remember that things were once very different for the club. David Potter transports us back to Sunderland's past glories - from...

Award-winning Brooklyn-based sports photographer Jonathan Mehring, named by ESPN as one of the top ten skateboard influencers, has logged thousands of hours with pro skate teams in some of the world's most unusual and unlikely destinations - from...

"This is a much needed book on the Weight Aids which should be close to the heart of all who teach and coach riding." - Patrick Print OBE FBHSThis book is designed for all riders from the very novice to the most advanced. Sylvia Loch teaches through...

Available separately from the Cruising Almanac 2024, the 2024 tide tables now include tide times for Zeebrugge Corrections and updates are issued monthly (approximately) and are available from The Cruising Association website. Link below.About the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789491648212Author Martin PittFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Crossbill Guides FoundationPublisher KNNV UitgeverijWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm)...

Crowood Sports Guides provide sound, practical advice that will make you a better sportsperson, whether you are learning the basic skills, discovering more advanced techniques or reviewing the fundamentals of your sport. Contents include: information...

The ultimate 'one stop' guide to using foam rollers. A relative newcomer to the fitness scene, lots of us don't know how to use foam rollers effectively as part of an exercise or training routine. Originally used only by physiotherapists and exercise...

Fourteen years since his autobiography, Size Doesn't Matter, English rugby's most decorated flanker, Neil Back, returns with a tale of triumphs, heartaches and broken promises. From his anti-hero role as 'The Hand of Back' in Leicester Tigers' European...

Staffordshire offers a wide range of delights for the walker - from the windswept Peak District through riverside walks to picturesque villages. This collection of 100 walks ranges from between three to eleven miles in length, with routes to suit all...

Games People Played is, surprisingly, the first global history of sport. The book shows how sport has been practiced, experienced and made meaningful by players and fans throughout history. It assesses how sports developed and diffused across the globe,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956908015Author Ray WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Hrp HousePublisher Hrp HouseWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Paul Reed's latest battlefield walking guide covers the site of the largest amphibious invasion of all time, the first step in the Allied liberation of France and the rest of northwest Europe. The places associated with the landings on the Normandy coast...

Karate: The Art of "Empty-Hand" Fighting is the definitive guide to Shotokan Karate-the most widely practiced style of Karate-and has inspired millions of Karate practitioners worldwide. Authored by one of the great masters of the art, Hidetaka...

The perfect walking guide to the wilderness and beauty of Kerry. Discover the landscape and wildlife of Ireland's most beautiful county with walking enthusiast and expert naturalist Kevin Corcoran. These twenty walks explore heathland and bog, Ireland's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901746518Author Darren PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Empire Publications LtdPublisher Empire Publications LtdWeight(grams) 478g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937715656Author Susan LackeFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint VeloPressPublisher VeloPressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 25mm

In this newly updated practical, easy-to-understand guide, Allan Sefton explains everything a new fly fisher needs to know.Suitable for all ages and abilities, and featuring step-by-step advice on fly casting, tackle and tactics, this is the perfect book...

Andrew Dempster has 40 years' experience of hillwalking the length and breadth of Scotland. Author of several climbing books, including the first guidebook to the Grahams, in this volume he identifies the best wee hills on the Scottish mainland.MUNRO at...

WINNER OF THE AN POST SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2022The bestselling memoir of an Olympic championAfter Kellie Harrington won gold at the Tokyo Olympics, the Irish public recognized her as not merely a sporting hero, but a deeply inspirational human...

'Without Simon Waterson's help and guidance, I literally wouldn't have made it through fifteen years of playing James Bond ... It's been an honour working with him.' Daniel Craig_________________________'Working with Simon is the nearest you get to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781741175660Author Dillon Seitchik-ReardonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Hardie Grant ExplorePublisher Hardie Grant ExploreWeight(grams) 820g

Jimmy Case is best remembered for a spectacular FA Cup final goal and a deserved reputation as one of football's genuine hard men. But that does scant justice to a career that covered more than 700 appearances for 7 league clubs and did not end until he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912456604Author Match MagazineFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Pillar Box Red Publishing LtdPublisher Pillar Box Red Publishing Ltd

In April 2016, as they slumped to their lowest finish since 1983 and anger turned to apathy, Sheffield United was a club on the floor. A year later, they were reborn; champions of the division, history-makers on the rise again. And the man who dragged...

This is Book 19 in the exciting new series of full-colour "Pocket Walks", being small, practical sized guidebooks aimed at the less serious rambler. Full colour photographs and colourful sketch maps accompany each of the well described walks, with the...