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Bestselling author and six-time WWE champion Chris Jericho shares twenty of his most valuable lessons for achieving your goals and living the life you want, jam-packed with fantastic stories and the classic off-the-wall, laugh-out-loud Jericho references...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913159702Author Clive AgranFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 229gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

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...

Bestselling Andy McNab and award-winning Phil Earle join forces for the very first time, and the results are hilarious! Danny Mack's mates are brilliant: there's his best mate Giraffles (yeh, you read that right),...

Designing and making cars is an expensive thing to do. So is racing them. All told, the car business spends billions every year and with such vast sums at stake you'd think the people involved wouldn't give desk space to Captain Cockup. Sadly, you would...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906852362Author Yves C Ton-ThatFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Artigo Publishing InternationalPublisher Artigo Publishing InternationalWeight(grams)...

With laugh-out-loud cartoons, a hilarious book of tennis humor, a perfect gift for your double's partner or your most tenacious adversary. A perfect gift.In It's Not My Fault, author Joshua Shifrin helps tennis players make sense of their most monumental...

Marcus Berkmann, author of the cricket classics Rain Men and Zimmer Men, returns to the great game with this irresistible miscellany of cricketing trivia, stories and more fascinating facts than Geoffrey Boycott could shake a stick of rhubarb at. Which...

A tongue-in-cheek look at the complicated love-hate relationship between Red Sox and Yankees fans, how and why it developed, what accounts for the animosity and the grudging respect, and why it and continues to dominate the baseball landscape, this book...

From the award-winning team behind the Totally Football Show, one of the world's leading independent football podcastsThe Totally Football Yearbook isn't just a collection of statistics. It's analysis, insight, authority and irreverence. It's the views...

Rob Deering has been listening to music his whole life, but it was only in his mid-thirties that - much to his surprise - he found himself falling in love with the hugely popular, nearly perfect, sometimes preposterous activity of runningIn this vividly...

'Matt is an Adorable Genius' Jilly CooperThe last twelve months seen through the eyes of the brilliantly funny cartoonist Matt - the perfect Christmas gift.'No one can be funny every time - except Matt' John Humphrys'So much greater than his nearest...

Ten years after his classic Rain Men - 'cricket's answer to Fever Pitch,' said the Daily Telegraph - Marcus Berkmann returns to the strange and wondrous world of village cricket, where players sledge their team-mates, umpires struggle to count up to six,...

Get ready for top-drawer delivery, as They Think It's All Over laces up its boots and races up the wing to bend in cross after cross of perfect football banter, including... the funny:'I love Blackpool; we're very similar - we both look better in the...

Get ready for top-drawer delivery, as They Think It's All Over laces up its boots and races up the wing to bend in cross after cross of perfect football banter, including... the funny:'I love Blackpool; we're very similar - we both look better in the...

Up the Garden Path brings together a glorious collection of Thelwell's gardening cartoons. This humorous cartoon guide covers all aspects of gardening, from how to make a hole in the frozen fish pond to how to get your mower out of the shed, and...

Re-live the glory and the heartache of England's greatest ever game - and THAT World Cup Final back in 2022.Well now it's 2022 and the discussion is finally over, England have eleven players as good as any of them. The unbeatable national team have...

Play It As It Lies brings together a glorious collection of Thelwell's golfing cartoons. The perfect gift for any golfer who has experienced the horrors of sporting the wrong attire on course, losing his ball, or been wronged by unforgivable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770414440Author Steve 'Dangle' GlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

You can never take what you love too seriously and The Periodic Table of Football celebrates this fact.Welcome to The Periodic Table of Football. Instead of hydrogen to helium, here you'll find Pele to Sepp Blatter - 108 elements from the football...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607960195Author Stephen PotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)...

Lancashire Hotch-Potch is a collection of Bob Bond's drawings on cricket, particularly Lancashire cricket. It also includes some famous Test Match moments at Old Trafford and elsewhere. It's not a book of statistics but cartoons including all the...

The quintessential barking-mad Yorkshire cricketer, 'Hoggy's' record-breaking bowling exploits for England allied to his humorous, uniquely oddball yet hugely endearing attitude to sport and life makes this essential reading for all lovers of the game...

'A heart-warming, joyous and assured debut novel about friendship that put me in mind of Kay Mellor at her funnies' RICHARD HERRING'Takes you inside the minds of a brilliant group of characters at very different stages of life. A gripping, witty, very...

For more than twenty years, Tony Hawks has been mistaken for Tony Hawk, the American skateboarder. Even though it is abundantly clear on his website that he is an English comedian and author, people still write to him asking the best way to do a kickflip...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911175476Author Chris TomlinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint YouCaxton PublicationsPublisher YouCaxton Publications

A lot of leather has 'plunk-plicked' against willow since cricket was first played on the village greens of Olde England, but this doughty little book heroically manages to capture the true essence of the noble ball game in just 100 run-grabbing moments...

'Genius ... Squires' creativity shines through in this collection - there's simply no one better at what he does.' - Best Football Books of 2019, FourFourTwo***Half-and-half scarves? VARs? England winning penalty shoot-outs?Modern football can be...

'Genius ... Squires' creativity shines through in this collection - there's simply no one better at what he does.' - Best Football Books of 2019, FourFourTwo***Half-and-half scarves? VARs? England winning penalty shoot-outs?Modern football can be...

From the hosts of the popular podcast and tv show Men in Blazers, comes their completely scientific, 100% definitive, defend-to-the-death list of the greatest soccer players of all time. Every fan has their own list of the 100 soccer players they...

*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...

This is a collection of sporting prints lampooning the work of expert draughtsmen such as Stubbs, Rowlandson, Fernley and Pollard. Thelwell, the creator of the cartoon character Penelope, has a superb eye for detail and for the relationship between...

Written by Mats Holm and Ulf Roosvald, Bjoern Borg and the Super-Swedes explains how a small country with eight million inhabitants like Sweden could become the leading nation in tennis and an example to imitate worldwide. It starts with the legend of...

A lot of rucking and mauling has gone on since William Webb Ellis first picked up the ball and ran, but this doughty little book heroically manages to capture the true essence of the daddy of all oval ball games in just 80 minutes. This is the story of...

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Giant hornets, rampaging rabbits, dancing dinosaurs, angry ants, human boiler systems. A nightmarish vision of a post-apocalyptic future? Maybe. But these are also the furry characters who add that little extra spice to every sporting occasion. These are...

'A heart-warming, joyous and assured debut novel about friendship that put me in mind of Kay Mellor at her funnies' RICHARD HERRING'Takes you inside the minds of a brilliant group of characters at very different stages of life. A gripping, witty, very...

In the vein of Hotel Babylon and Confessions of a GP, The Secret Player will fascinate footballs fans with its wealth of insider knowledge and willingness to talk, albeit anonymously, about the inner workings of the game. Based on the hugely popular 'The...

Welcome to The Periodic Table of Cricket. Here you'll find the essential elements - batsmen and bowlers past and present - that have left a lasting legacy on this great sport.As with chemical elements, these international personalities have been arranged...

Did you know . . . Tom Brady is a very good quarterback. (True, but only according to statistics and accomplishments.) The formation of the NFL took place in an auto dealership. The founders started an institution and also were convinced to buy...