Sport
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Hardback | Pub: 04 Apr 2017£17.99In this definitive biography, veteran sportswriter Tom Callahan shines a spotlight on one of the greatest golfers ever to play the game, Arnold Palmer. The winner of more than ninety championships, including four Masters Tournaments, Arnold Palmer...
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Paperback | Pub: 06 May 2021£16.99
Arnold Schwarzenegger – a bodybuilder-turned-real-estate mogul who turned an undefeated streak at the Mr Olympia contest into an astonishing film career and eight years as the governor of California – is, for many people, the embodiment of the...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Oct 2012£20.00
Since 1875 Hibernian Football Club has been an integral part of sporting life in the City of Edinburgh and Port of Leith; its early history up to 1946 has been brilliantly documented in The Making of Hibernian trilogy by Alan Lugton. John...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Jul 2018£14.99
Over the past decade, an audacious programme called Football Dreams has held trials for millions of 13-year-old boys across Africa looking for football’s next superstars. Led by the Spanish scout who helped launch Lionel Messi’s career at...
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Paperback | Pub: 20 Jul 2020£16.99
Labels such as ‘icon’ or ‘legend’ are rarely attached to one individual to the degree that they are to Bruce Lee. He only made a handful of films, yet four and a half decades after his untimely death at the age of 32, the Little Dragon’s...
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Paperback | Pub: 06 Sep 2018£9.99
Butch Wilkins and the Sundance Kid chronicles the author’s decade-long obsession with televised sport during his teenage years in the 1980s. Charting similar waters to Nick Hornby’s classic Fever Pitch, but with the hopeless devotion of a...
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Hardback | Pub: 24 Sep 2015£12.99
The 2015 Rugby World Cup in England is set to be the biggest, brightest and most successful tournament to date, as the world’s top teams compete for the coveted Webb Ellis Cup and inspire new participants and fans worldwide across 44 days and...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 May 2022£17.99The #blacklivesmatter movement has put prejudice under the microscope and made everyone examine the issue of race from all angles – Dreaming the Impossible is the definitive book of racism in British sports which answers the question as to whether...
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Paperback | Pub: 08 Jun 2017£14.99The European Game is an adventure. Over three months Dan Fieldsend travelled the continent discovering the methods for success used at some of the biggest clubs in Europe, from Ajax and Juventus, to Feyenoord, Inter Milan, Bayern Munch, Benfica,...
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Paperback | Pub: 17 Aug 2015£8.99With a total of more than 500 goals in careers that saw them turn out for the likes of Hibernian, St Mirren, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Torino, Joe and Gerry Baker are two of the greatest strikers Scotland never had. While Liverpool-born...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Nov 2019£9.99Fernando Ricksen was a fighter. As a footballer, Ricksen carved out a fearsome reputation for Rangers, Zenit St Petersburg and Holland. Throughout his time at Ibrox, his aggressive approach won him hero status among the Rangers fans, and off the...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Jul 2014£9.99On 17 July 1993, Graeme Obree stunned the international world when he emerged from obscurity to smash Francesco Moser’s World Hour Record. The Flying Scotsman is Graeme Obree’s searing autobiography, from his tough upbringing in Ayrshire...
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Hardback | Pub: 10 Oct 2019£17.99Listed as one of the five worst international selections ever, and described in a book about Scottish rugby as ‘a full back slower than your average prop’, Ian Smith cheerfully won eight caps for Scotland in a career that saw him score every...
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Hardback | Pub: 16 Sep 2021£17.99The summer of 1967 was Scottish football’s finest hour. Celtic won the European Cup. Rangers reached the final of the European Cup Winners’ Cup. Kilmarnock got to the semis of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. Scotland defeated world champions England...
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Hardback | Pub: 23 Jun 2010£25.00Did you know that Shakespeare was a golfer? And that Rembrandt was no stranger to the fairway? Professor David Purdie takes a seriously humorous swipe at our collected knowledge of the game in this enlightening and entertaining compendium. Based on...
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Hardback | Pub: 02 Sep 2021£17.99One of the Financial Times Top 5 Best Sports Books of the Year 2021 The 1970 World Cup is widely regarded as the greatest ever staged, with more goals per game than any World Cup since. But more than just the proliferation of goals was the quality...
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E-Book | Pub: 13 May 2013£5.99
Golf clubs, the length and breadth of the UK, are hotbeds for debate. Go into any clubhouse on a Saturday afternoon and you’ll find people arguing the virtues of links golf over parkland or Stableford over medal play. Every time a golf...
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Hardback | Pub: 10 Oct 2019£9.99Andy Bollen has created a fantasy football museum to collect together a treasure trove of Scottish football exhibits that ranges from Jimmy Johnstone’s oar to Aggie the tea lady’s trolley. Learn why Puskas and Socrates should’ve been...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Apr 2018£8.99No bicycle repair was ever made easier by turning your bike upside down. White shorts are for other people. A helmet perched on the back of your head is perfect if you ride your bike backwards – These and a host of other handy pointers jostle...
