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Million Dollar Crolla: Good Guys Can Win tells the unique story of the 'nicest man in boxing' and his remarkable path from prospect to has-been, from victim to world champion. Written off by many, an office job beckoned for Anthony Crolla before a...

Million Dollar Crolla: Good Guys Can Win tells the unique story of the 'nicest man in boxing' and his remarkable path from prospect to has-been, from victim to world champion. Written off by many, an office job beckoned for Anthony Crolla before a...

Written by the late, beloved Dr. George Sheehan, Running & Being tells of the author's midlife return to the world of exercise, play, and competition, in which he found "a world beyond sweat" that proved to be a source of great revelation and personal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781592406388Author Michael OherFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Gotham...

'In many ways Jimmy Hill was football. He was a true great of the game.' - Greg Dyke, Chairman of the Football AssociationJimmy Hill died on 19th December 2015 but very much remains a household name. Renowned for his outspoken views, recognised the world...

'In many ways Jimmy Hill was football. He was a true great of the game.' - Greg Dyke, Chairman of the Football AssociationJimmy Hill died on 19th December 2015 but very much remains a household name. Renowned for his outspoken views, recognised the world...

Better Than He Knew: The Graham Barlow Story recalls the cricketing life of Graham Barlow, a talented all-round sportsman and largely unsung member of the Middlesex team that dominated domestic cricket from 1976 to 1985. Emerging from schoolboy cricket,...

Enter the locker room: this is a history of the Ryder Cup like you have never experienced it before. From the origin matches that preceded the first official trans-Atlantic encounter between Britain and America at Worcester Country Club in 1927, all the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993062292Author Neal HorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint SportsproviewPublisher Sportsproview

'Compelling' Irish TimesAidan O'Mahony was at peak physical fitness and making his mark on the Kerry Senior Football team when he made the devastating choice to walk away from it all.Now, in his powerfully honest memoir, Aidan looks at the events leading...

Irish travellers live in a closed community. What we think we know about them is based on hearsay, rumour and stereotype. But not any more. Knuckle is the true story of James Quinn McDonagh - clan head and champion bare-knuckle fighter. It's a...

Mike Tucker was born into a life of farming and horses. His passion and hard work enabled him to progress from international groom to successful international event rider, top level Eventing official and television commentator. The pinnacle of Mike's...

Mike Tucker was born into a life of farming and horses. His passion and hard work enabled him to progress from international groom to successful international event rider, top level Eventing official and television commentator. The pinnacle of Mike's...

"In yet another skillful excavation of a dazzling Latino champion, Christian Giudice...follows Hector 'Macho' Camacho from his embattled childhood in Spanish Harlem, to the heights of his electrifying yet too-brief stardom and onto his abject end by hail...

Selwyn Francis Edge, invariably known simply as 'SF', was a highly significant pioneer of motoring in Britain. When, in 1902, he drove a Napier to victory in the Gordon Bennett Cup, a mighty event on public roads between Paris in France and Innsbruck in...

In 1914 one of Britain's most famous sportsmen went off to play his part in the First World War. Like millions of others, he would die. Unlike millions of others, nobody knew how or where. Until now. Lost in France is the true story of Leigh Roose:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451698336Author Steph DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780435017057Author Joe SimpsonFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint HeinemannPublisher Pearson Education LimitedWeight(grams) 280gDimensions(mm) 188mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629375731Author Laver Rod Writer LarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 28mm

Unbreakable tells Lindsey Hunter's moving and heartbreaking story. Lindsey is the widow of snooker star Paul Hunter, who died tragically aged only 27 in October 2006 after a battle with cancer, leaving Lindsey and their one year-old daughter Evie bereft...

How did George McCluskey become one of Celtic F.C.'s most memorable football players? What binds the fans and players and creates this strong sense of belonging? And what does the Irish diaspora have to do with Celtic F.C.? George McCluskey was one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953563057Author Ray WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Hrp HousePublisher Hrp HouseWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

Benny Leonard was arguably the greatest lightweight champion of all time. With superb boxing skills and potent punching power, he fought over 200 times and suffered just five defeats. He spent his boyhood in a crime-ridden ghetto in Manhattan's Lower...

Behind every successful athlete is a dreamer. Mike's dream was to achieve the ultimate physical and mental state. He turned his dream into records and some remained unsurpassed for over thirty years. This book tells his story from schoolboy to...

'This obsession of mine has brought both joy and torment. The fixation with winning came from within, it roused me and veered on the dangerous.' This is Sean Cavanagh's account of his extraordinary, obsessive drive to dominate his sport. For the...

In 2012, Joe Barr almost died from altitude sickness on the infamous 11,000-ft Wolf Creek Pass in a Race Across America attempt. The infamous 3,200-mile race is non-stop, ultra-cycling at its most extreme. In 2014, Joe returned and received the coveted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953563941Author Ray WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Hrp HousePublisher Hrp HouseWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735223639Author Gary M. PomerantzFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Highly Commended, Outdoor Book category, Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild Awards for Excellence 2019We are all climbing where we are and with the gear we use in no small part due to Tony Howard's quest for adventure.Tony Howard rose to fame in...

One gambler is a manic former cokehead with an Ivy League degree. The second is a college dropout trying to make a living at the only thing he enjoyed at school,gambling. The third, one of Vegas's most respected bookmakers, is perilously close to burning...

Who was the standout player when the Class of '92 won the FA Youth Cup? David Beckham? Paul Scholes? Ryan Giggs? Think again. Ben Thornley: The Class of '92 Star Who Never Got to Graduate is the compelling autobiography of a teenager who had the world at...

Named for his catchphrase, 'Listen, you pencil-neck geeks' and written with Keith Elliot Greenberg, this is the colourful autobiography of one of the most memorable personalities ever to enter the wrestling world. Freddie Blassie weaves vibrant tales of...

Frank McLintock was a leading player of his generation and is acclaimed as one of Arsenal's greatest captains. After transferring from Leicester, in 1970 he led Arsenal to a famous victory in the Fairs Cup and followed this up with even greater glory a...

When an athlete with an exceptional record of achievement and longevity comes to the end of their career, the numbers can speak for themselves. Ross Taylor has scored the most runs, made the most centuries and taken the most catches by a New Zealander in...

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JAMES TAYLOR was born in Burrough on the Hill, Leicestershire, in 1990/. A sporting phenomenon from an early age, he chose to forge a life in cricket, establishing himself as one of the country's leading batsmen and an England regular. And then tragedy...

Give Us Tomorrow Now offers an entertaining and powerful narrative of a manager striving to satisfy legions of fanatical supporters and an impatient boardroom. Success and stability had long proven elusive objectives for Sunderland managers attempting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784612740Author Geraint ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

The true story of the tragic round-the-world yacht race - now the subject of The Mercy, starring Colin Firth and Rachel WeiszIn 1968, the Sunday Times organised the Golden Globe race-an incredible test of endurance never before attempted-a round the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953534033Author Roger DeakinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 145mm...