Forever Young: The Story of Adrian Doherty, Football's Lost Genius by Oliver Kay
$13.50 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This football book is about something even more important than the "beautiful game"; it is a story of the human spirit.' - Mick Hume, The Times Adrian Doherty was not a typical footballer. For one thing, he was blessed with extraordinary tal ...Show more
Forza Amon! - A biography of Chris Amon by Eoin Young
$65.00 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics | Reading Level: very good
Chris Amon, Denny Hulme, Bruce McLaren - three legends of New Zealand motor sport. Of them, Chris was always regarded as the unlucky one. Despite being described by Sir Jackie Stewart as one of the best racing drivers he ever knew or saw in action, Chris never won a Formula One Grand Prix. Forza Amon! f ...Show more
Foul! by Andrew Jennings
$16.50 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics
The Secret World of FIFA: Bribes, Vote Rigging and Ticket Scandals No individual has managed to penetrate the secret world of FIFA. Until now. Andrew Jennings, the world's leading sports investigative reporter, has unearthed the stories that FIFA doesn't want told. He blows the whistle on an internation ...Show more
Four-Iron in the Soul by Lawrence Donegan
$21.50 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics
In this very funny sports book (a cross between Nick Hornby and Bill Bryson) young journalist Lawrence Donegan tells the story of the summer he spent caddying for Scottish golfer Ross Drummond, ranked over 400 in the world,on the European Tour. Thisis the inside story of the geniuses,the cheats, the gur ...Show more
From Poverty Bay to Broadway The Story of Tom Heeney by Monin, Lydia
$27.50 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics | Reading Level: Very Good
1928 Tom Heeney entered the ring at New York's Yankee Stadium in front of 46,000 spectators wearing a Maori cloak. He was about to fight world heavyweight champion Gene Tunney. This book follows the life of one of New Zealand's most colourful sports personalities from a labourer's cottage in Gisborne to ...Show more
From the Ocean to the Sky - Jet Boating up the Ganges by Edmund Hillary
$42.50 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics | Reading Level: good-very good
From the Ruck: a Commentator Tells All by Gordon Bray
$15.00 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics
A collection of stories of legendary games of rugby. Includes interviews and tributes to great players, chapters on the author's favourite rugby people - Lynagh, Louw, Campese, Dwyer et al - stories from the commentary box and on tour. Bray also discusses refereeing, coaching, the international situatio ...Show more
Full Time - Secret Life of Tony Cascarino by Paul Kimmage
$12.50 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics
The No. 1 bestseller, now in paperback: 'FULL TIME belongs with the finest sports books ever written' Eamon Dunphy, THE TIMES In this compelling and sensationally honest book, Paul Kimmage strips away the public facade of an international football star. Tony Cascarino is a man scarred by childhood, haun ...Show more
Game of Shadows by Mark Fainaru-Wada
$13.50 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics
The blockbuster "New York Times" bestseller that caused a media firestorm and stayed in the headlines for weeks at last arrives in paperbackwith a new afterword about the Barry Bonds perjury investigation. This is the complete inside story of the BALCO steroids scandal from the award-winning reporters w ...Show more
Get Her Off the Pitch! How Sport Took Over My Life by Lynne Truss
$15.00 NZD
Category: Sports & Athletics | Reading Level: good
From the bestselling author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves , a hilarious new book from Lynne Truss about her strange journey through the world of sport and sports journalism. Get Her Off the Pitch! is the story of one woman's foray into the very masculine and rather baffling world of sport. Lynne Truss spen ...Show more