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The Odd Woman and the City Viivian Gornick 9781914198984
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198984Author Vivian GornickFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Once There Were Giants: The Golden Age of Heavyweight Boxing by Jerry Izenberg
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.26**New edition updated with a foreword by Manny Pacquiao.** A celebration and memorial of the greatest era of heavyweight fighters from 1962 to 1997, as witnessed ringside by an International Boxing Hall of Fame sportswriter. Once upon a time, of all the... -
Golf Is Hard by Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston 9780008663353
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.31One of golf's most popular and funny personalities reveals the ups and downs of a life playing the world's most infuriating sport. 'Even professional golfers hit bad shots. I guess that's why it holds... -
The Wind Book for Rifle Shooters: How to Improve Your Accuracy in Mild to Blustery Conditions by Linda K. Miller 9781510739727
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.19All other factors being equal, it is your ability to read the wind that will make the most difference in your shooting accuracy. The better you understand the behavior of the wind, the better you will understand the behavior of your bullet. Now, champion... -
Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam 9781401309725
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £14.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401309725Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette Books -
The Complete Guide to Gunsmithing: Gun Care and Repair by Charles Edward Chapel 9781632202697
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.58The Most Comprehensive Gunsmithing Guide of All Time.Written by one of the most prolific firearms experts of all time, The Complete Guide to Gunsmithing is a highly detailed and essential reference for the gun enthusiast and gunsmith alike. At nearly 500... -
How Bad Do You Want It?: Mastering the Psychology of Mind Over Muscle by Matt Fitzgerald 9781781315279
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.02HOW BAD DO YOU WANT IT? revisits some of the most extraordinary moments from the history of endurance sports to show how mental strength allows some athletes to perform at a level way beyond their physical limits - to will their body to do what was... -
The Ultimate Guide to Home Butchering: How to Prepare Any Animal or Bird for the Table or Freezer by Monte Burch 9781510746015
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.19Revised and updated! With more than forty years of experience butchering domestic animals, game, and birds, award-winning outdoor writer and photographer Monte Burch presents this complete guide for butchering many types of livestock or wild animals... -
The Sports Gene: Talent, Practice and the Truth About Success by David Epstein
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31'A wonderful book. Thoughtful...fascinating' Malcolm GladwellDo you believe some people are born athletes?Is sporting talent innate or something that can be achieved through endurance and practise?In this ground-breaking and entertaining exploration of... -
The Best: How Elite Athletes Are Made A. Mark Williams 9781529304374
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62"Insightful, thoughtful, and altogether wonderful." DANIEL COYLE, New York Times bestselling author of THE TALENT CODE"This book is a must read." EDDIE JONES, Head Coach, England Rugby"An engrossing guidebook for youth athletes, parents, coaches and... -
Classic Rock: Great British rock climbs by Ken Wilson 9781898573708
Booksplease Price: £29.78Ken Wilson's Classic Rock is one of the most popular and iconic works of climbing literature ever written. Along with Hard Rock and Extreme Rock, it has acquired legendary status. First published in 1978, Classic Rock represented the absolute best of... -
The Sweet Science: Boxing and Boxiana - A Ringside View by A. J. Liebling
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.33Take a ringside seat next to A. J. Liebling at some of the greatest fights in history. Here is Joe Louis's devastating final match; Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback; and Rocky Marciano's rise to heavyweight glory. The heated ringside atmosphere,... -
The Times Beginner's Guide to Bridge: All you need to play the game by Andrew Robson
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.63A one-stop practical guide on how to play and master the fascinating and rewarding game of bridge with expert advice throughout from Andrew Robson, the Times bridge correspondent, the world's most famous and successful player and teacher of bridge. ... -
The Cold Fix: Drawing strength from cold water swimming and immersion by Sara Barnes
Booksplease Price: £11.11'The cold water has given me the key to unlock myself within a place I didn't know existed: the community of cold-water swimmers right around the world. What binds us all together is the cold and how it makes us feel: brave enough to tackle even the... -
Training for the New Alpinism: A Manual for the Climber as Athlete by Steve House 9781938340239
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.52In Training for the New Alpinism, Steve House, world-class climber and Patagonia ambassador, and Scott Johnston, coach of U.S. National Champions and World Cup Nordic Skiers, translate training theory into practice to allow you to coach yourself to any... -
Poverty Creek Journal: On Life and Running by Thomas Gardner 9781914198809
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198809Author Thomas GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Backlund: From All-American Boy to Professional Wrestling's World Champion by Bob Backlund
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Bob Backlund began life as a poor farm boy in the little village of Princeton, Minnesota, with a population of just over 2,000 people. He was a below-average student with a lackluster work ethic and a bad attitude, who hung with the wrong crowd and made... -
Cricket Grounds Then and Now by Brian Levison 9781911682097
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.14A history of beloved cricket grounds from around the world. Using a Then and Now format, historic pictures of cricket grounds are paired with their modern-day equivalent to show the dramatic changes that have taken place. Cricket Grounds Then... -
Golf's Strangest Rounds: Extraordinary but true stories from over a century of golf Andrew Ward 9781911622000
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.70'The most eccentric golf book ever' Sports and Leisure Magazine Golf's Strangest Rounds is an absorbing collection of bizarre tales from the lengthy annals of the sport's history. There are stories of tragedy, eccentricity, tactical slipups and ones... -
Coming Back To Me: The Autobiography of Marcus Trescothick by Marcus Trescothick 9780007292486
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.65A true-life sporting memoir of one of the best batsman in the game who stunned the cricket world when he prematurely ended his own England career. Trescothick's brave and soul-baring account of his mental frailties opens the way to a better understanding... -
String Theory: David Foster Wallace On Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication by David Foster Wallace
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598534801Author David Foster WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 364g -
Football's Strangest Matches: Extraordinary but true stories from over a century of football by Andrew Ward
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.70'It's a funny old game.' The world's favourite sport has certainly given us its fair share of strange moments, and this absorbing collection gathers together the best of them, from more than a century of the beautiful game. From Blackburn Rovers' one-man... -
The Cycling Anthology: Volume One (1/5) by Lionel Birnie
Booksplease Price: £14.47THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO CYCLING IN FIVE VOLUMESVolume One of The Cycling Anthology, a collection of the best writing on cycling by some of the sport's leading writers. Between them, they've covered hundreds of Tours de France and written dozens of... -
Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy by Bill Simmons
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345520104Author Bill SimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint ESPNPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 805gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 155mm * 41mm -
Wayne Rooney: My Decade in the Premier League by Wayne Rooney
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.86'My Decade in the Premier League' is Wayne's first hand account of his 10 years playing at the highest level in English football - and for the biggest club in the world. This is his inside story of life on the pitch for Manchester Utd; the League titles,... -
Pickleball Is Life: The Complete Guide to Feeding Your Obsession by Erin McHugh
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.70The ultimate keepsake for every pickleball fan-from a dink shot to the kitchen, everything a pickleballer needs to know in this fully illustrated guide to the world's greatest recreational sport, packed with lots of joy, good humor, and even a little bit... -
Vantage Point: 50 Years of the Best Climbing Stories Ever Told by The Editors of Climbing Magazine
Booksplease Price: £11.53For nearly 50 years, Climbing Magazine's goal has been to inspire and entertain with compelling coverage of climbing in all its forms, from bouldering to the big walls, trad rock to sport climbing, ice climbing to mountaineering. Vantage Point offers a... -
Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8000-Metre Peak by Maurice Herzog
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99One of the finest mountaineering books. A phenomenal tale of strength and valour.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOE SIMPSONIn 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 meters had ever been climbed. Maurice Herzog and other members of the French Alpine Club resolved... -
Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.15This is the best known of Corbett's books, and contains ten fascinating stories of tracking and shooting man-eaters in the Indian Himalaya during the early years of this century.About the AuthorRenowned shikariReviewsIt was not only the ripping-yarn... -
Tennis's Strangest Matches: Extraordinary but true stories from over five centuries of tennis Peter Seddon 9781910232958
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.86In this hugely entertaining collection of stories taken from over a hundred years of world tennis history, award-winning sports historian Peter Seddon has gathered together the most extraordinary events ever to occur on a tennis court. They... -
Staredown: Another Year Inside Boxing by Thomas Hauser
Booksplease Price: £26.77Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to Thomas Hauser's newest collection of articles about the contemporary boxing scene. Reviewing his 2019 collection, Booklist proclaimed, 'It's hard to think of another sports journalist who... -
The Trapper's Bible: The Most Complete Guide on Trapping and Hunting Tips Ever by Jay McCullough
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.93Recognize animal tracks and signs; master a variety of wood and steel traps, snares, deadfalls, and pens; mix your own animal scents; skin, stretch, cure, and tan hides, learn how to trap every animal imaginable; and more!A collection of tips, tactics,... -
Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game by Karl Ove Knausgaard
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Karl Ove Knausgaard and fellow writer Fredrik Ekelund kick around thoughts and ideas on football, life, art and politics.Karl Ove Knausgaard is sitting at home in Skane with his wife, four small children and a dog. He is watching football on TV and falls... -
Late Cuts: Musings on cricket by Vic Marks 9781838953065
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.33What follows, which explores some of the charms, the quirks and the peculiar allure of cricket from a variety of perspectives, is not intended as a memorial for long-lost sepia days. The game is still alive. Whether it turns out to be therapy for me or... -
Sport Policy and Politics in an Era of Austerity by Dan Parnell
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £34.52Austerity is perhaps the major challenge of our times, given the speed at which it arrived and the consequences of its impact upon society. The global financial crash and economic downturn was the catalyst for change and, against a backdrop of advice... -
Out and Back: A Runner's Story of Survival Against All Odds by Hillary Allen
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.23In 2017, world-class ultrarunner Hillary Allen was at the top of her sport--and it felt like she was running on top of the world as she competed in Norway's Tromso Skyrace. Allen was nearly halfway through the 50-kilometer race when she fell 150 feet off... -
The Outdoors Fix: Stories to inspire you to make the outdoors a bigger part of your life by Liv Bolton
Booksplease Price: £14.48Do you wish you could make the outdoors a bigger part of your life? Liv Bolton, host of the chart-topping podcast The Outdoors Fix, presents an inspiring collection of stories about ordinary people who have done just that. By making time for their... -
Late Cuts: Musings on cricket by Vic Marks
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.67What follows, which explores some of the charms, the quirks and the peculiar allure of cricket from a variety of perspectives, is not intended as a memorial for long-lost sepia days. The game is still alive. Whether it turns out to be therapy for me or... -
All Fishermen Are Liars by John Gierach
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451618327Author John GierachFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
Are We There Yet?: Tales from the Never-Ending Travels of WWE Superst by Robert Caprio 9780743490412
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Clocking up more than a million miles a year as they travel from venue to venue, the Superstars of the WWE have more road trip stories to tell than they have frequent flier miles. In this eye-popping insight into life on the road you can share their...