Griezmann by Luca Caioli
$19.99 AUD
Category: SPORT
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MESSI AND RONALDO Quick, incisive and versatile, Antoine Griezmann is theultimate modern forward. But did you know that he had to leave France in order tofind a professional club willing to take a chance on him? Or that he wears the number 7 shirt as a tribute ...Show more
Rugby: an Anthology - The Brave, the Bruised and the Brilliant by Brian Levison
$35.00 AUD
Category: SPORT
Inspiring and irreverent by turns, Brian Levison's new anthology has drawn on rugby's wealth of excellent writing. Frank Keating, P. G. Wodehouse, Alec Waugh, A. A. Thomson, John Reason and Mick Imlah are among the distinguished names who have written movingly, amusingly and entertainingly about the gam ...Show more
The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance by Adharanand Finn
$29.99 AUD
Category: SPORT | Series: Human Endurance
Marathons are no longer enough. Pain is to be relished, not avoided. Hallucinations are normal. Ultra running defies conventional logic. Yet this most brutal and challenging sport is now one of the fastest-growing in the world. Why is this? Is it an antidote to modern life, or a symptom of a modern ill ...Show more
The Fine Cotton Fiasco by Peter Hoysted Pat Sheil
$34.99 AUD
Category: SPORT | Reading Level: 6 Sport
Brisbane, 1984. It all started with a simple plan to secretly swap a mediocre horse with a faster one, and rake in the cash with a few well-placed bets. What could possibly go wrong?In The Fine Cotton Fiasco, Peter Hoysted and Pat Sheil brilliantly tell the scarcely believable tale of how - through a co ...Show more
Baggy Green Legends: The Cap. The Courage. The Camaraderie by Martin Lenehan
$49.99 AUD
Category: SPORT | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
For more than 140 years, our baggy green heroes have captured the hearts offans who follow their fortunes with pride and passion.Compiled by former Inside Edge editor Martin Lenehan, who has covered cricket in print and on radio for 25 years, 'Baggy Green Legends' pays tribute to the most sacred piece o ...Show more
On the Chin: A Boxing Education by Alex McClintock
$32.99 AUD
Category: SPORT | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The first thing that impressed me about Fritzy was his collection of boxing maxims, which he deployed continuously and without regard to their relevance: 'Ya don't play boxing', 'Don't hook with a hooker', 'Kill the body and the head'll die', 'Move ya head or the other guy'll move it for ya.' Fritzy was ...Show more
Rugby World Cup 2019 TM by COLLINGS, SIMON
$29.99 AUD
Category: SPORT | Series: Official Book
The Rugby World Cup 2019 Japan: The Official Book is the must-have companion to world rugby's biggest event. For the first time ever, a nation outside the Six Nations or Rugby Championship, Japan, is hosting the tournament, and this book contains everything fans will need, from venue guides to detailed ...Show more
Born To Fight: The bestselling story of UFC champion Mark Hunt, the real life Rocky by Mark Hunt, Ben Mckelvey
$22.99 AUD
Category: SPORT
Raw, confronting and honest, UFC champion Mark Hunt's inspiring autobiography shows it is possible to defy the odds and carve a better life. Born into a Mormon Samoan family, Hunt details his harrowing early life, his troubled teen years, and his angry youth with no apparent future. After being plucked ...Show more
Don't Die With the Music in You by Wayne Bennett, Steve Crawley
$24.99 AUD
Category: SPORT
The autobiography of the premiership-winning coach of the Brisbane Broncos. One of Rugby League's shrewdest and most innovative mentors, his profile on Australian Story revealed him as a man of great compassion with powerful family ties.
Icons of Footy by Kevin Sheedy
$39.99 AUD
Category: SPORT
Footy legend Kevin Sheedy crosses team alliances to profile the 21 most iconic Aussie Rules players and coaches of his lifetime. He also sits down for interviews with nine icons he has long admired and who don't normally (for various reasons) have their stories told. Packed full of wisdom and wit, ins ...Show more
Great Australian Sporting Stories by Ian Heads, Norman Tasker
$34.99 AUD
Category: SPORT | Reading Level: 6 Sport
'Heads and Tasker, legends themselves, set out to write a book that would continue the trail laid by early-days sporting scribes of long ago. I could not put it down.' JOHN COATES AC, PRESIDENT OF THE AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE 'I know readers will enjoy the many stories and anecdotes that Heads and ...Show more
Their Finest Hour: A History of the Rugby League World Cup in 10 Matches by Andrew Marmont
$32.99 AUD
Category: SPORT
The story of the Rugby League World Cup, vividly brought to life with first-hand stories from the players, coaches and administrators who were behind the big moments. More than sixty years ago, Paul Barriere decided to host rugby league's first ever World Cup tournament. An enthralled Parisian public st ...Show more