Aside from its current titles, John Blake Publishing
has a considerable back list of acclaimed sporting titles
including biographies of characters as diverse as Gary Neville and Peter Crouch, Nigel Benn and Thierry Henry.
For more information, visit www.blake.co.uk
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Can We Have Our Balls Back Please? By Julian Norridge
Sports Book of the Month price: £11.69, saving £6.30 on rrp
First Capital Connect customers with a passion for sport can now take advantage of a new monthly book review from Sports Book of the Month. Each month, a different sports book will be featured, and this month’s winter read is ‘Can We Have Our Balls Back Please?’ by Julian Norridge.
Readers of Your Journey can take advantage of a fantastic saving of 35%, and pick up this sporting legend for just £11.69 You can also be in with a chance of winning one of five signed copies of ‘Can We Have Our Balls Back Please?’
Release date: 26th June, 2009 Publisher: Yellow Jersey Press
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Bad Blood is a wonderfully well-paced book (easily read in a day), at times as steady as the peleton, on other occasions fast enough to resemble a sprint finish; it rarely plods, which makes it absolutely gripping.... (read review)
Release date: 07th May, 2009 Publisher: Headline Books
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For this week's competition and an opportunity to win 'Winning Is Not Enough', simply answer the following question: What was Sir jackie Steart's last Formula One win? Email us your answer no later than 26th June 2009 (read review)
For more information and to enter, go to the competition page here.
Sports book of the Year
You’ve probably heard about the title that won
this award, but how about the other five nominees? They’re
all a good read and they’re all here.
Every single book is available at less than the publisher’s
list price.
All time greats
It may seem as though sports books are a new phenomenon
or limited solely to autobiographies, but this is not
the case. There have been a number of classic sports titles
over the years, a selection of which we have chosen here.
The top 10
This list is regularly updated, designed to save you
time and money visiting the High Street to try and find
which sports books are currently in the top 10. A mug’s
game – read about them here
and save up to 50% on the cover price!
Add a sports book review to your newspaper or magazine
The dramatic increase in the number of sports-related books being published over the past decade means that sports fans are continually searching for independent assessments of content before buying.
The benefits to a newspaper or magazine of incorporating a regular column which reviews the current crop of sports books are severalfold and, depending upon how it is promoted, can have a positive impact upon circulation. Read more...
