Sports & Recreation

The Scottish League Cup is often wrongly described as the 'Cinderella' of Scottish football, as distinct from its two ugly sisters, the Scottish League and the Scottish Cup. Dating from the Second World War, it is certainly the youngest. The trophy is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780911588Author Tom ClareFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

Shortlisted for The Telegraph Sports Book Awards Biography of the Year 'A splendid new biography. How good was young Tom Morris? Stephen Proctor makes his case cogently. Young Tom Morris was one of the greatest of them all' - Allan Massie Young Tom...

New things are forgotten old things – this rediscovery of the past is especially important in horsemanship and equestrian sports. Despite advances in sciences and technology, the physiologies and psychologies of the two principal agents, the equid and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901347401Author Tim ButcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 335Imprint League Publications LtdPublisher League Publications LtdWeight(grams) 826gDimensions(mm)...

In a time of unprecedented political and economic transformation, the middle classes of Victorian and Edwardian England became principal players in a new social order. Nowhere did their culture, values and identity gain clearer expression than in their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061431241Author Clay TravisFormat PaperbackPage Count 367Imprint It BooksPublisher It BooksWeight(grams) 336g

Remember when Zinedine Zidane lifted the World Cup in 1998? Kylian Mbappe doesn't. The gifted young forward wasn't born when the French team became world champions for the first time. But it was Mbappe's unique talent that helped France to reach the...

After coming close to winning the pennant on more than one occasion during the early 1920s, the Pittsburgh Pirates finally shed the stigma of being underachievers and claimed the National League flag in 1925, ending the New York Giants' four-year reign...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451650259Author John FeinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

*Simon Drew's 29th book, in which he turns his attention to golf finding the fun and frolics in every aspect of the game Simon Drew has produced this book in much the same way he played golf. In the dim distant past he would attempt to drive a ball...

All hiking challenges are personal, yourself against the required completion time. A successful Challenge is a personal triumph. With its easy access, and ten hours target time, the Surrey 3 Peaks Challenge can be completed in a single (long) day if you...

Marco Siffredi was the first person to snowboard Mount Everest in 2001, and was regarded by many as the world's best snowboarder. Jeremy Evans explores the 23-year-old's mysterious disappearance as he descended Everest from the Hornbein Couloir, an...

Modern Ninja Warfare takes a contemporary look at the stealthy methods of the Ninja (Shinobi).Ninja historian Antony Cummins, himself a skilled martial artist, takes a detailed and realistic look at the Ninja, their methods and their role in the medieval...

The British car manufacturer, Lola, is probably the best-known and most-respected builder of racing cars, and has built successful cars for almost every racing formula. This book covers the 63 types of Lola car built between 1957 and 1977, and is written...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908748164Author David BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Kittiwake PressPublisher Kittiwake Press

The greatest moments in sporting history in inglorious technicolour, from the 'artists' known as NO SCORE DRAWS 'Genuinely upsetting.' David Squires 'Repulsively ugly.' Seamas...

Get ready to explore America's most thrilling gravel, road and trail bike routes. This definitive companion for cycling enthusiasts showcases 200 of North, Central and South America's best and most celebrated routes, from epic adventures off the beaten...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781460292051Author Abby KnoxFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 349g

No Crying in Baseball is a rollicking, revelatory deep dive into a one-of-a-kind film. Before A League of Their Own, few American girls could imagine themselves playing professional ball (and doing it better than the boys). But Penny Marshall's genre...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RONALDO AND NEYMAR.Prolific, cool-headed and unerringly consistent, Lionel Messi is one of the most revered footballers in history. But did you know that his transfer to Barcelona was first agreed on a paper napkin?Or that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780950824260Author John BevanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Submex LtdPublisher Submex LtdWeight(grams) 1500gDimensions(mm) 271mm * 193mm * 22mm

When football players leave Ireland behind in the hopes of carving out a future in the professional game, they often end up plying their trade in the UK -competing for a chance in the Premier League, the Scottish Premiership, or the numerous leagues...

PLAYING HARD BALL is a unique sports book, a cultural comparison of two national games - cricket, English in origin and American baseball - written from the viewpoint of a top-class practitioner of both codes. Ed Smith - the young Cambridge University...

Too many shotgunners imagine that their success in the field, or lack of it, is largely a question of innate ability and luck. Not true, say Bruce Bowlen and Dylan Snell, long-time Orvis shotgun instructors. Good shooting depends as much on effective...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780912172Author Mick WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984856180Author Fred Van LenteFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA Inc

When Josh Swade found out that the original 13 rules of basketball, penned by Dr. James Naismith-the father of modern basketball-were up for auction, he knew that it was his duty as a lifelong Jayhawks fan to make sure that they ended up where they...

'Monumental!' - Bob Ross, Australian Sailing High Performance Sailing is now regarded as the bible of racing sailors and carries a string of endorsements from high achievers. Since its publication in 1984, racing yachts and dinghies have developed out of...

When, during the Pyrenean stages of the 1998 Tour de France, a journalist asked Marco Pantani why he rode so fast in the mountains, the elfin Italian, unmistakeable in the bandanna and hooped ear-rings that played up to his "Pirate" nickname, replied:...

Qigong is an aspect of traditional Chinese medicine that involves coordinating breathing patterns with physical postures to maintain health and well-being. Wu Qin Xi: Five-Animal Qigong Exercises is an accessible, fully-illustrated guide to a particular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998213149Author Sara J WeisFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint River Oaks PublishingPublisher River Oaks PublishingWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm)...

When award-winning journalist Dave Jamieson rediscovered his childhood baseball card collection he figured that now was the time to cash in on his "investments." But when he tried the card shops, they were nearly all gone, closed forever. eBay was no...

`I was very grateful for today's near perfect visibility and, despite the late hour, just had to sit down to take it all in.' On a late April morning, lover of landscapes and professional geologist John Sutcliffe, approaching his 70th birthday, sets out...

Robin Lloyd-Jones has been exploring the west coast and islands of Scotland in his sea kayak for more than forty years. In this book he recalls many a memorable expedition to wild and beautiful shores. Amongst magnificent scenery and ever-changing seas,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612431307Author Brett StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 250g

Football inspires competition and inflames passions nowhere as strongly as in Africa. Travelling across thirteen countries, from Cairo to the Cape, journalist Steve Bloomfield meets players and fans, politicians and rebel leaders, and discovers the role...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615948768Author Jake AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Coventry House PublishingPublisher Coventry House PublishingWeight(grams)...

The must-have handbook on rescue techniques for serious climbers Whether you need to assist your partner past a difficult section of a climb or rappel down a multipitch route with an injured climber, you owe it to yourself and your fellow climbers to be...

Crowood Sports Guides provide sound, practical advice that will help make you a better sportsperson whether you are learning the basic skills, discovering more advanced techniques or reviewing the fundamentals of your sport. Featured in Swimming -...