History of sport
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Jun 2025£14.99Featuring a foreword by Billie Jean King. Since the turn of the century, women’s tennis has established itself as one of the world’s most unpredictable sports. With 36 different Grand Slam champions from 2000 to 2024, upsets have become the norm...
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Hardback | Pub: 02 Sep 2021£17.99
Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Football Book of the Year One of the Financial Times Top 5 Best Sports Books of the Year The 1970 World Cup is widely regarded as the greatest ever staged, with more goals per game than any World Cup since. But more...
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Paperback | Pub: 06 Nov 2025£12.99Celebrate 150 years of Hibs. Charting the highs, lows and many misadventures of Hibernian FC, and featuring countless characters, from George Best to John McGinn via the Famous Five and the side that became world champions, this is the ultimate...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Sep 2023£9.99
From Socrates to Arthur Montford, via Bovril, Buckfast and, of course, pies, this is a unique journey through the extraordinary world of Scottish football. Packed with anecdotes and observations, Andy Bollen wallows in a nostalgic haze, a time of...
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026£17.99
This is the story of Champion Golfer Allan Robertson (1815-1859). Until now, Robertson’s role had been as a member of the supporting cast in the story of leading light Tom Morris. Between 1840 and 1859 the reality was Robertson shared centre...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Apr 2024£16.99
Shortlisted for the Sports Book Awards for Best Sports Writing of the Year and the USGA Herbert Warren Wind Book Award The Long Golden Afternoon tells the story of the transformative generation of golf that followed the rise of Young Tom Morris...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Jul 2021£12.99Shortlisted for The Telegraph Sports Book Awards Biography of the Year Young Tom Morris, the son of the legendary pioneer of golf, Tom Morris, was golf’s first superstar. Born at a pivotal moment in history, just as the new and inexpensive...
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Hardback | Pub: 07 Mar 2024£17.99Shortlisted for the Charles Tyrwhitt Rugby Book of the Year 2025 Go behind the scenes with the winners of the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup. In January 2019, England’s Red Roses became the first fully professional women’s rugby team in the...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026£14.99Celebrating 25 years of AFC Wimbledon. On May 28, 2002, the most-shameful decision ever taken in the history of English football was rubber stamped. A three-man commission, appointed by the FA, allowed Wimbledon FC to be airlifted from its community...
