Review Archive
A selection of books reviewed in full.
A Delicate Game Brain Injury, Sport and Sacrifice By Hana Walker-Brown
Butler to the World How Britain Became the Servant of Oligarchs, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals By Oliver Bullough
God is Dead The Rise & Fall of Frank Vandenbrouke By Andy McGrath
Fit And Proper People By Martin Calladine & James Cave
52 Ways to Walk By Annabel Streets
Sweat: A History of Physical Exercise By Bill Hayes
Anatomy of a Football Scout by Jon Cotterill
Tour de Force: My history-making Tour de France By Mark Cavendish
41-Love: A Memoir By Scarlett Thomas
Can We Not Knock It? A celebration of 90s football By Sid Lambert & Chris Scull
Don Revie: The Biography By Christopher Evans
Time on Rock By Anna Fleming
Get It On: How the ?70s Rocked Football By Jon Spurling
Might Bite The Secret Life of a Gambling Addict By Paul Foster with Will Macpherson
Becoming Forrest The extraordinary story of one man?s epic run across the USA By Rob Pope
Hooked: Addiction and the long road to recovery By Paul Merson
The Accidental Footballer By Pat Nevin
Rise By Siya Kolisi
Fringes: Life on the edge of professional rugby By Ben Mercer
The Beautiful Bridesmaids Dressed in Oranje By Gary Thacker
The Midlife Cyclist By Phil Cavell
Dream Horse: The Incredible True Story of Dream Alliance By Janet Vokes
A Greater Glory From Pitch To Pulpit By Gavin Peacock
End to End By Paul Jones
One Track Mind By Michael Stocks
The A-Z of Sporting Collectibles By Carl Wilkes
Not Out at Close of Play: A Life in Cricket By Dennis Amiss with James Graham-Brown
Why We Swim By Bonnie Tsui
Jack Dempsey And The Roaring Twenties By Thomas Myler
Wings of Change How the world’s biggest energy drink manufacturer made a mark in football By Karan Tejwani
The Men Who Raised the Bar The evolution of the highest individual score in Test cricket By Chris Waters
Jamie Redknapp Me, family and the making of a footballer By Jamie Redknapp
When The World Stops Watching By Damian Lawlor
The Man of All Talents The Extraordinary Life of Douglas Clark By Steven Bell
Macho Time The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of Hector Camacho By Christian Giudice
British Football’s Greatest Grounds One hundred must-see football venues By Mike Bayly
Mountains According to G By Geraint Thomas
Glove Story 2 By Rob Stokes, Derek Hammond & Gary Silke
Running the World By Nick Butter
The Strenuous Life: Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of the American Athlete By Ryan Swanson
The Farther Corner By Harry Pearson
Bundini: Don’t Believe the Hype By Todd Snyder
Spirit of Cricket Reflections on Play and Life By Mike Brearley
Football’s Black Pioneers By Bill Hern & David Gleave
Because It’s Saturday By Gavin Bell
Bob Willis: A Cricketer and a Gentleman by Mike Dickson & others Edited by David Willis
The A-Z of Weird & Wonderful Football Shirts by Richard Johnson
The Russian Affair By David Walsh
Kloppite By David Segar
Never Leave A Man Behind By Mick Dawson
Splash! : 10,000 years of swimming By Howard Means
Really Wild Cycling: By Chris Sidwells
One Long and Beautiful Summer, By Duncan Hamilton
Salt On My Skin By Sarah Kennedy Norquoy
A Race with Love and Death By Richard Williams
To Hell and Back: An Autobiography By Nikki Lauda & Kevin Eason
The Boss: Jurgen Klopp & the new Anfield Bootroom By Harry Harris
No Way but to Fight George Foreman and the Business of Boxing By Andrew R. M. Smith
The Ruhleben Football Association: How Steve Bloomer's Footballers Survived a First World War Prison Camp By Paul Brown
The Medal Factory British Cycling and the Cost of Gold By Kenny Pryde
The Three Kings The Makers of Modern Football By Leo Moynihan
The ‘Got Not Got’ Football Gift Book by Derek Hammond & Gary Silke
Guiding Me Home and Away By Dave Thomas
Joe Louis The Rise and Fall of the Brown Bomber By Tom Myler
The Great Romantic Cricket and the Golden Age of Neville Cardus By Duncan Hamilton
Astroball The New Way to Win it All By Ben Reiter
Smokin’ Joe The Life of Joe Frazier By Mark Kram Jr
The Boxer’s Story: Fighting for My Life in the Nazi Camps By Nathan Shapow with Bob Harris
Money Can’t Buy Us Love: Everton in the 1960s By Gavin Buckland
The Autobiography By Alastair Cook With Michael Calvin
Berkmann’s Cricketing Miscellany By Marcus Berkmann
The Judge by Robin Smith
Training Secrets of the World's Greatest Footballers: How Science is Transforming the Modern Game By James Witts
Mind Game The Secrets of Golf’s Winners By Michael Calvin & Thomas Bjorn
The Rumble in the Jungle By Lewis Erenberg
Zonal Marking By Michael Cox
Football Hackers The Science and Art of a Data Revolution By Christoph Biermann
The Next Big Thing By Ryan Baldi
My Life In Football By Kevin Keegan
Tiger Woods By Jeff Benedict & Armen Keteyian
In Search of Alan Gilzean By James Morgan
In Sunshine or in Shadow By Donald McRae
The Rise of the Ultra Runners By Adharanand Finn
My Name’5 Doddie The Autobiography By Doddie Weir & Stewart Weir
Edmund Hillary - A Biography The extraordinary life of the beekeeper who climbed Everest
Monsieur X: The incredible story of the most audacious gambler in history By Janie Reid
Unbreakable: The Woman Who Defied the Nazis in the World’s Most Dangerous Horse Race By Richard Askwith
The Soccer Tribe By Desmond Morris
Olympia The Story of the Ancient Olympic Games By Robin Waterfield
Done Deal By Daniel Geey
Sketches From Memory A Rugby Memoir By Stuart Barnes
Why Are We Always On Last? Running Match of the Day and other adventures in football and TV By Paul Armstrong
Red Mist Football’s Most Shocking Moments By Phil Cartwright
How Not To Run: A Journey to the Roof of the World By Shauney Watson
The Club How the Premier League Became the Richest, Most Disruptive Business in Sport By Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg
Darkness and Light: My Story By Joe Thompson with Alex Fenn
Can We Run With You, Grandfather? Seven Continents: Seven Decades By Doug Richards
Alan Ball The Man in White Boots By David Tossell
On Cricket By Mike Brearley
No Spin My Autobiography By Shane Warne with Mark Nicholas
Seoul Glow The Story Behind Great Britain’s 1988 Hockey Gold By Rod Gilmour
The Little Big Things The Inspirational Memoir of the Year By Henry Fraser
How To Be A Footballer By Peter Crouch with Tom Fordyce
The Beautiful Badge The Stories Behind the Football Club Badge By Martyn Routledge & Elspeth Wills
A Boy in the Water By Tom Gregory
Game Changers How a team of underdogs & scientists discovered what it takes to win By Joao Medeiros
Rocky Marciano: The Brockton Blockbuster By John Jarrett
Nice Jumper By Tom Cox
Connie The Marvellous Life of Learie Constantine By Harry Pearson
England: The Biography The Story of English Cricket 1877-2018 By Simon Wilde
The Jersey: The Secrets Behind the World’s Most Successful Team By Peter Bills
Have a Good Week – Till Next Week By John Lister
No Helmets Required The remarkable story of the American All Stars By Gavin Willacy
When Footballers Were Skint A Journey in Search of the Soul of Football By Jon Henderson
The Mad and the Bad Boxing Tales of Murder, Madness and Mayhem By Thomas Myler
Anquetil Alone: The Legend of the Controversial Tour de France Champion By Paul Fournel
The Range Bucket List: The Golf Adventure of a Lifetime By James Dodson
Fifty Cup Finals My Life in Football By Nick Collins
Iron Ambition Lessons I’ve Learned from the Man Who made Me a Champion By Mike Tyson with Larry Sloman
Chasing Points A Season on the Pro Tennis Circuit By Gregory Howe
Maradona Once Upon A Time In Naples (2018 Edition) By John Ludden
Stuck In A Moment The Ballad of Paul Vaessen By Stewart Taylor
One Goal A Coach, A Team and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together By Amy Bass
401: The Extraordinary Story of the Man Who Ran 401 Marathons in 401 Days and Changed His Life Forever By Ben Smith
Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket By Stephen Fay and David Kynaston
Berlin 1936 By Oliver Hilmes
Tiger Woods By Jeff Benedict & Armen Keteyian
Leap In By Alexandra Heminsley
The Boy on the Shed By Paul Ferris
Klopp: Bring the Noise By Raphael Honigstein
Re: Cyclists 200 Years On Wheels By Michael Hutchinson
Running: Cheaper Than Therapy By Chas Newkey-Burden
In The Zone How Champions Think and Win Big By Martin Brolin
Unbreakable By Jelena Dokic with Jess Halloran
Lillee and Thommo The Deadly Pair’s Reign of Terror By Ian Brayshaw
Graham Taylor: In His Own Words By Graham Taylor
Through Sand and Snow By Charlie Walker
The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics By Michael Cox
The Way of the Runner A Journey Into the Fabled World of Japanese Running By Adharanand Finn
Glove Story By Rob Stokes, Derek Hammond & Gary Silke
Ascent By Sir Chris Bonnington
From Orient to the Emirates The Plucky Rise of Burnley FC By Tim Quelch
A Clear Blue Sky By Jonny Bairstow with Duncan Hamilton
Ali: A Life By Jonathan Eig
Rugby, The Game Of My Life: Battling For England in the Professional Era By Rob Andrew
Football: My Life, My Passion By Graeme Souness
Over and Out: My Innings of a Lifetime with Test Match Special By Henry Blofeld
Unstoppable: My Life So Far By Maria Sharapova
Fearless Freddie The Life and Times of Freddie Mills By Christopher Evans
Crazy: My Road to Redemption By Chris Lewis
True Professional The Clive Sullivan Story By James Oddy
The Billionaires Club: The Unstoppable Rise of Football’s Super-Rich Owners By James Montague
Johnny Haynes Portrait of a Football Genius By James Gardner
The Premier League: 25 Years By Lloyd Pettiford
Gentleman and Player The Story of Colin Cowdrey, Cricket’s Most Elegant and Charming Batsman By Andrew Murtagh
The Fall of the House of FIFA By David Conn
We Are Sunday League By Ewan Flynn
The Descent By Thomas Dekker
But Seriously An Autobiography By John McEnroe
The Love of the Game: The Agonies and Ecstasies of Parenting and Sport By Mark Chapman
Tom Simpson: Bird On A Wire By Andy McGrath
Bunce’s Big Fat Short History of British Boxing By Steve Bunce
The Greatest Comeback: From Genocide to Football Glory By David Bolchover
The Hardmen: Legends of the Cycling Gods By Frank Strack
The Captain Class: The Hidden Force Behind the World’s Greatest Teams By Sam Walker
When Lions Roared: The Lions, the All Blacks and the legendary tour of 1971 By Tom English & Peter Burns
Quiet Genius: Bob Paisley, British Football’s Greatest Manager By Ian Herbert
Sixty Years of Jump Racing By Robin Oakley & Edward Gillespie
Quiet Leadership By Carlo Ancelotti
The Talent Lab The secrets of creating and sustaining success By Owen Slot
No Hunger In Paradise The Players. The Journey. The Dream By Michael Calvin
The Beardless Adventurer and Her Inconvenience: A first-time cycle trip across Europe By Donna Marie Ashton
Four Mums in a Boat: By Jeanette Benaddi, Helen Butters, Nikki Doeg & Frances Davies
Herding Cats: The Art of Amateur Cricket Captaincy By Charlie Campbell
The Greatest: The Quest for Sporting Perfection By Matthew Syed
Dr Socrates: Footballer, Philosopher, Legend By Andrew Downie
Gus Honeybun, Your Boys Took One Hell of a Beating By Simon Carter
The Dark Destroyer By Nigel Benn
Redemption: From Iron Bars to Ironman By John McAvoy with Mark Turley
Above Head Height A Five-a-Side Life By James Brown
Ray Billows: The Cinderella Kind The Unlikely and Colourful Story of a World Class Amateur Golfer By Tom Buggy
The Illustrated History of Football By David Squires
Epic Bike Rides of the World
Leap In: A Woman, Some Waves and a Will to Swim By Alexandra Heminsley
Don’t Stop Me Now 26.2 Tales of a Runner’s Obsession By Vassos Alexander
Obsessive Compulsive Cycling Disorder: Volume One By Dave Barter
The Man in the Middle The Autobiography of the World Cup Final Referee By Howard Webb
Cristiano Ronaldo The Biography By Guillem Balague
The Cyclist Who Went Out In The Cold By Tim Moore
The Football Ramble By Marcus Speller & others
Dare To Do: Taking on the Planet by Bike and Boat By Sarah Outen
Saturday 3pm 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football By Daniel Gray
Box To Box From The Premier League to British Boxing Champion By Curtis Woodhouse
The Murder of Sonny Liston A Story of Fame, Heroin, Boxing & Las Vegas By Shaun Assael
My Turn: The Autobiography By Johan Cruyff
His Own Man The Biography of Otto Peltzer By Tim Johnston and Donald Macgregor
Stroke of Genius Victor Trumper and the shot that changed the world By Gideon Haigh
Lost in France By Spencer Vignes
AB The Autobiography By AB de Villiers
The Captain Myth The Ryder Cup & Sport’s Great Leadership Delusion By Richard Gillis
OptaJoe’s Football Yearbook 2016 That thing you thought? Think the opposite By Duncan Alexander
Home And Away Round Britain in search of non-league football nirvana By Dave Roberts
Shadow Box An Amateur in the Ring By George Plimpton
Angels With Dirty Faces The Footballing History of Argentina By Jonathan Wilson
Cycling the Earth: A life-changing race around the world By Sean Conway
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics By Daniel James Brown
The Games: A Global History of the Olympics By David Goldblatt
White On Green Celebrating the Drama of Pakistan Cricket By Richard Heller & Peter Oborne
Mr Darley’s Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in 25 Horses By Christopher McGrath
1966: My World Cup Story By Sir Bobby Charlton
Fifty Years of Hurt: The Story of England Football and Why We Never Stop Believing By Henry Winter
And the Sun Shines Now: How Hillsborough and the Premier League Changed Britain By Adrian Tempany
We Had Some Laughs: My dad, the darts and me By Dan Waddell
For the Glory The Life of Eric Liddell from Olympic Champion to Modern Martyr By Duncan Hamilton
The Hitler Trophy Golf and the Olympic Games By Alan Fraser
Forever Young By Oliver Kay
Belt Boy by Kevin Lueshing with Mike Dunn
Endurance The Extraordinary Life & Times of Emil Zatopek By Rick Broadbent
66: The World Cup In Real Time By Ian Passingham
Mister By Rory Smith
From Light to Dark The Story of Blind Dave Heeley By Dave Heeley & Sophie Parkes
From Light to Dark By Dave Heeley & Sophie Parkes
WARRIORS ON HORSEBACK: The Inside Story of the Professional Jockey By John Carter
Grand Prix Circuits with Maurice Hamilton
The Crazy Gang by Dave Bassett and Wally Downes
Tendulkar in Wisden
CONCUSSION by Jeanne Marie Laskas
BARCA: A Peoples Passion by Jimmy Burns
Fully Programmed: The Lost World of Football Programmes By Derek Hammond & Gary Silke
Man Vs Ocean By Adam Walker
One Breath By Adam Skolnick
Another Bloody Saturday By Mat Guy
Shankly’s Village By Adam Powley & Robert Gillan
Living on the Volcano By Michael Calvin
The World of Cycling According to G By Geraint Thomas
Dan Carter The Autobiography of an All Blacks Legend By Dan Carter with Jack Lark
Cricket: The Game of Life By Scyld Berry
Trading Secrets: Squash Greats Recall Their Toughest Duels by Rod Gilmour
Staying on Track by Nigel Mansell
Eibar The Brave The Extraordinary Rise of La Liga’s Smallest Team By Euan McTear
Wiped Out? The Jerome Wilson Story By Mark Turley and Jerome Wilson
Leading By Sir Alex Ferguson with Sir Michael Moritz
Amazing Grace The Man Who Was WG By Richard Tomlinson
400 at 5:30 by Peter Bills
Official Guide to the Rugby World Cup
Fire in Babylon How the West Indies Cricket Team Brought a People to its Feet By Simon Lister
A Man’s World By Donald McRae
The House of Lancaster: How England Rugby was Reinvented By Neil Squires
Bouts of Mania: Ali, Frazier and Foreman and an America on the Ropes By Richard Hoffer
Alpe D’Huez: Cycling’s Greatest Climb By Peter Cossins
The Bolt Supremacy: Inside Jamaica’s Sprint Factory By Richard Moore
The Test: My Life, and the Inside Story of the Greatest Ashes Series – by Simon Jones
Max Mosley: Formula One and Beyond by Max Mosley
Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon By Ed Caesar
Speed Kings: The Fastest Men in the World and the 1932 Winter Olympics By Andy Bull
Field of Shadows: The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 By Dan Waddell
Federer and Me: A Story of Obsession By William Skidelsky
Half Time: The Glorious Summer of 1934 By Robert Winder
Bernard Hinault And the Fall and Rise of French Cycling By William Fotheringham
Sex & Drugs & Rebel Tours By David Tossell
Interesting: My Autobiography By Steve Davis with Lance Hardy
The Ugly Game The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup By Heidi Blake & Jonathan Calvert
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanac Edited by Lawrence Booth
Wisden on Grace: An Anthology Edited by Jonathan Rice
To Hell on a Bike Riding the Paris – Roubaix: The Toughest Race in Cycling By Iain MacGregor
Stuck On You By Greg Lansdowne
The Temple of Perfection A History of the Gym By Eric Chaline
Fathers of Football By Keith Baker
The Ugly Game By Martin Calladine
Warriors on Horseback By John Carter
The Strangers Who Came Home The First Australian Cricket Tour of England By John Lazenby
The Breakaway My Story By Nicole Cooke
Second XI Cricket in its outposts By Tim Wigmore & others
Football Clichés By Adam Hurrey
Beyond the Horizon Extreme Adventures at the End of the World By Richard Parks
Guy Martin: My Autobiography By Guy Martin
O, Louis: In Search of Louis van Gaal By Hugo Borst
Staying Power: A Year in My Life By Phil Taylor with Mike Walters
Great British Cycling The History of British Bike Racing 1868-2014 By Ellis Bacon
The Road to Nowhere A Journey Through Boxing’s Wastelands By Tris Dixon
Savage! Robbie Savage
Bouts of Mania Ali, Frazier, Foreman and an America on the Ropes By Richard Hoffer
Journeymen The Other Side of the Boxing Business By Mark Turley
Proud: My Autobiography By Gareth Thomas
Roy: My Life By Roy Race
Turning My Back on the Premier League By Lee Price
In Search of Duncan Ferguson The Life & Crimes of a Footballing Enigma By Alan Puttullo
Bobby Moore, the Man in Full By Matt Dickinson
The Corridor of Certainty By Geoffrey Boycott
The Ryder Cup A History: 1927 - 2014 By Peter Pugh & Henry Lord
Sky Sports Football Yearbook 2014-15
Match of the Day Fifty Years of Football - by Nick Constable
Sky Sports Football Yearbook
A Clean Break: My Story - By Christophe Bassons
The Three Degrees by Paul Rees
Sparring With Life by Jimmy Tibbs
The Hate Game By Ben Dirs
The Climb By Chris Froome with David Walsh
Twelve Yards by Ben Lyttleton
Shocking Brazil By Fernando Duarte
Best, Pele and a Half Time Bovril By Andrew Smart
Living on the Deadline By Frank Malley
Futebol Nation: A Footballing History of Brazil By David Goldblatt
Lanterne Rouge The Last Manin the Tour de France By Max Leonard
Gironimo Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy By Tim Moore
Touched By Greatness The story of Tom Graveney By Andrew Murtagh
Roy Mac Clough’s Champion By Roy McFarland with Will Price
Salt. Sweat. Tears The Men Who Rowed the Oceans By Adam Rackley
Running Free: A runner’s journey back to nature By Richard Askwith
Pirates Punks & Politics By Nick Davidson
Cycle of Lies The Fall of Lance Armstrong By Juliet Macur
The Lost World of Football By Derek Hammond & Gary Silke
Ping-Pong Diplomacy Ivor Montagu and the Astonishing Story Behind the Game that Changed the World By Nicholas Griffin
Marvellous: the Marvin Hagler Story By Damien & Brian Hughes
Knocking Down Walls By Uwe Rosler
How Not to be a Football Millionaire: Keith Gillespie
The Life and Times of Herbert Chapman by Patrick Barclay
At the Close of Play By Ricky Ponting
MESSI By Guillem Balague
Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography By Mike Tyson
David Beckham
Casey Stoner: Pushing the Limits
The Numbers Game by Chris Anderson & David Sally
Andy Murray, Seventy-Seven: My Road to Wimbledon Glory
Land of Second Chances: The Impossible Rise of Rwanda’s Cycling Team By Tim Lewis
Weirwolf: My Story By David Weir
At Speed: My life in the fast lane By Mark Cavendish
Sir Alex Ferguson: My autobiography By Sir Alex Ferguson
Driving Ambition My Autobiography By Andrew Strauss
Twin Ambitions By Mo Farah
Always Managing: My Autobiography By Harry Redknapp
Fear and Loathing in La Liga : Barcelona v Real Madrid By Sid Lowe
Immortal: the Approved Biography of George Best By Duncan Hamilton
Fibber in the Heat By Miles Jupp
The Nowhere Men By Michael Calvin
The Playboy and the Rat The Story of James Hunt and Niki Lauda By Roy Calley
The Real Jeeves By Brian Halford
I Am Zlatan Ibrahimovic By Zlatan Ibrahimovic with David Lagercrantz
Miracle At Medinah By Oliver Holt
The Good Son The Life & Times of Ray ‘Boom Boom’ Mancini By Mark Kriegel
Rory McIlroy: The Biography By Frank Worrall
Reg Harris: The rise and fall of Britain’s greatest cyclist By Robert Dineen
Fergie: The Greatest Manchester United 1986-2013 By Frank Worrall
Twice Bitten: Holyfield - Tyson II By George Willis
Swim, Bike Run: Our Triathlon Story By Alistair & Jonny Brownlee, with Tom Fordyce
Domestique: The Real Life Ups and Downs of a Tour Pro By Charley Wegelius
The Outsider By Jimmy Connors
Lost Lanes By Jack Thurston
A Race For Madmen The Extraordinary History of the Tour de France By Chris Sidwells
Harry's Games Inside the Mind of Harry Redknapp By John Crace
Football - Bloody Hell! By Patrick Barclay
The Wizard: The Life of Stanley Matthews By Jon Henderson
Wild Swimming 300 Hidden dips in the rivers, lakes and waterfalls of Britain By Daniel Start
Henry Cecil: Trainer of Genius By Brough Scott
You Are Your Own Gym By Mark Lauren
Through The Eyes of Formula One By Caroline Reid and Christian Sylt
Wisden Cricketers' Almanac 2013 Edited by Lawrence Booth
Foinaven: The Story of the Grand National's Biggest Upset By David Owen
Willie Watson England's most successful double international By Frank Garrick
Formula 1: All The Races By Roger Smith
That Near Death Thing Inside the Most Dangerous Race in the World By Rick Broadbent
The Cobra By Carl Froch
Marathon Running By Richard Nerukar
The Real McCaw By Ritchie McCaw
Duncan Edwards: The Greatest By James Leighton
Shot and a Ghost By James Willstrop
The Outsider: A history of the goalkeeper By Jonathan Wilson
Up Pohnpei Leading the ultimate football underdogs to glory By Paul Watson
Ah'm Tellin' Thee The biography of Tommy Banks By Ian Seddon
I am the Secret Footballer By Anonymous
Bent Arms and Dodgy Wickets By Tim Quelch
Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong By David Walsh
Unbelievable By Jessica Ennis
Running My Life By Seb Coe
This Is Me By Ian Thorpe
Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here? By Anthony Clavane
Bradley Wiggins: My Time: An Autobiography
The Dirtiest Race in History By Richard Moore
Going Barmy : Despatches from a Cricketing Foot Soldier By Paul Winslow
El Clasico By Richard Fitzpatrick
The Secret Race By Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle
Between the Lines By Victoria Pendleton with Donald McRae
The Breaks Are Off By Graeme Swann
Jackers: A Life in Cricket By Robin Jackman with Colin Bryden
Red Card Roy By Roy McDonough with Bernie Friend
Breaking 80 By David Godwin
Sky Sports Football Yearbook Edited by Glenda Rollin & Jack Rollin
The Perfect Distance Ovett & Coe: the record-breaking rivalry By Pat Butcher
Survivor By Fatima Whitbread
The Valiant Cricketer The Biography of Trevor Bailey By Alan Hill
Be Careful What You Wish For By Simon Jordan
Grovel! By David Tossell
The Eagle of Toledo By Alasdair Fotheringham
Richer Than God By David Conn
Sky's The Limit By Richard Moore
The Plan By Steve James
Keep On Running By Phil Hewitt
CMJ: A Cricketing Life By Christopher Martin-Jenkins
Monty: My Autobiography By Colin Montgomerie
Can't Swim, Can't Ride, Can't Run By Andy Holgate
Olympic Almanac By Stan Greenberg
Mud Sweat & Gears By Ellie Bennett
Running For Their Lives By Mark Whitaker
Running with the Kenyans By Adharanand Finn
Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike By William Fotheringham
Underdogs By Keith Dewhurst
My Life as a Hooker By Steven Gauge
Chasing Sachin By Adam Carroll-Smith
Got, Not Got By Derek Hammond & Gary Silke
Britain's lost cricket grounds By Chris Arnot
Underdog! By Tim Quelch
Graduation: Life Lessons of a Professional Footballer By Richard Lee
The Didi Man By Dietmar Hamann with Malcolm McClean
The Art of Fielding By Chad Harbach
You've Gone Too Far This Time, Sir! By Danny Bent
Inside the Divide By Richard Wilson
Hayes Running Manual By Sean Lerwill
Among the Fans From Ashes to the Arrows By Patrick Collins
The Limit By Michael Cannell
Vertigo by John Crace
The Ghost Runner by Bill Jones
Brian Clough by Jonathan Wilson
Basil D'Oliveira: Cricket & Controversy By Peter Oborne
Fred Trueman: The Authorised Biography By Chris Waters
Red: My Autobiography By Gary Neville
Usain Bolt: The Story of the World's Fastest Man By Steven Downes
More Thoughts of Chairman Moore By Brian Moore
Who Are Ya? By Gershon Portnoi
Great Olympic Moments by Sir Steve Redgrave
Ken Jones: Boots & Spikes by Steve Lewis
The Poker Mindset By Ian Taylor & Matthew Hilger
Goals, Glory & Greed by Joe Lovejoy
A Life Too Short by Ronald Reng
True Storey by Peter Storey
High Strung by Stephen Tignor
Why We Run By Robin Harvie
Denis Law: My Life in Football By Denis Law & Ivan Ponting
Sky Sports Football Yearbook By Glenda & Jack Rollin
Rafa: My Story by Rafa Nadal & John Carlin
Sphere of Influence By Gideon Haigh
Engage! The Fall & Rise of Matt Hampson By Paul Kimmage
32 Programmes by Dave Roberts
How I Won the Yellow Jumper by Ned Boulting
52 Great Poker Tips by Lou Krieger
The Smell of Football by Mick Rathbone
The Football Men by Simon Kuper
I'm Not Really Here by Paul Lake
Ian Botham: The Power & the Glory by Simon Wilde
Cyclone: My Story by Barry McGuigan
Glorious Summers & Discontents by Mike Atherton
Clough & Revie by Roger Hermiston
Racing Through The Dark by David Millar
Ian Botham by Simon Wilde
Messi by Luca Caioli
Aggers Ashes by Jonathan Agnew
Epic Swindle by Brian Reade
No Angel By Tom Bower
Arthur Milton: Last of the Double Internationals by Mike Vockins
How not to be a Prefessional Footballer by Paul Merson
From the eye of the Hurricane: Alex Higgins
It's Not About The Bike: Lance Armstrong
Savage! Robbie Savage
Open! Andre Agassi
Boy Racer: Mark Cavendish
Devilfish: the Life & Times of a Poker Legend: Dave Ulliott
Bounce! How Champions Are Made By Matthew Syed
Laurent Fignon: We Were Young and Carefree
Carlo Ancelotti: The Beautiful Games of an Ordinary Genius
Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong
Four-iron in the Soul By Lawrence Donegan
A Course Called Ireland By Tom Coyne
The Grudge By Tom English
Eleven By Steve Fleming
Born to Run By Christopher McDougall
Invictus By John Carlin
Coming of Age By Andy Murray
The Story of the World Cup by Brian Glanville
Beware of the Dog by Brian Moore
The Professor, the Banker and the Suicide King by Michael Craig
No Smoke, No Fire By Dave Jones
Englischer Fussball by Raphael Honigstein
The Bristol Boys by Jack Allen
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
For Richer, For Poorer by Victoria Coren
In Pursuit of Glory by Bradley Wiggins
Inspired by Sir Steve Redgrave
No Boundaries by Ronnie Irani
The Education of a Poker Player By Herbert O. Yardley
In The Shadow of a Giant By Mel Charles
Longy By Sean Long
Jacob's Beach by Kevin Mitchell
Great Face for Radio by John Anderson
Players: 250 men, women & animals who created modern sport By Tim Harris
The Poker Encyclopaedia by Elkan Allan and Hannah Mackay
Playing to Win by Dave Whelan
Motty: 40 years in the Commentary Box by John Motson
The Official Football Yearbook 2009-10 The ACTIM Statistical Guide
Inverting the Pyramid A history of football tactics by Jonathan Wilson
Beastly Fury: The Strange Birth of British Football by Richard Sanders
Why England Lose by Simon Kuper & Stefan Szymanski
Close To The Wind by Ben Ainslie
Killer Poker 2: Advanced Strategies for Crushing the internet game (version 2) by John Vorhaus
Take me to the River by Peter Alson
Serious Poker by Daniel Y Kimberg
Your Worst Poker Enemy by Alan Schoonmaker
Caro's Book of Poker Tells by Mike Caro
Big Deal by Anthony Holden
Make a Million from Online Poker by Nigel Goldman
Poker Tournament Formula by Arnold Snyder
Texas Hold 'Em: Begin & Win by Paul Mendleson
No Limit Texas Hold 'Em A complete Course by Angel Largay
Poker & Philosophy Pocket Rockets and Philosopher Kings: Edited by Eric Bronson
Beyond Traps- The Anatomy of Poker Success by James McKenna
Every Hand Revealed by Gus Hansen
The rules of poker by Lou Krieger and Sheree Bykofsky
Million dollar hold em by Johnny Chan & Mark Karowe
The Ultimate Guide to Poker Tells by Randy Burgess & Carl Baldassarre
Poker Strategies for a Winning Edge in Business by David Apostolico
How to win the World Series of Poker (or Not) by Pat Walsh
Poker Night by John Vorhaus
Kill Phil: The fast track to success in no-limit hold 'em poker tournaments by Blair Rodman and Lee Nelson
Play poker like a pigeon and win by Anonymous
Poker Face 2 by Ulvis Albert
Power Hold 'Em Strategy by Daniel Negreanu
The Poker Face of Wall Street by Aaron Brown
The Mathematics of Poker by William Chen
Caro's Most Profitable Hold'em Advice by Mike Caro
The Luck Factor by Richard Wiseman
Oops! I Won Too Much Money by Tom Schneider
Killer Poker by the Numbers The Mathematical Edge for Winning Play by Tony Guerrera
Tales of a Degenerate Poker Player by Derek Kelly
Kill Everyone by Lee Nelson, Tyson Streib & Kim Lee
Elements of Poker by Tommy Angelo
Phil Hellmuth Presents Read 'Em & Reap 'A career FBI agent's guide to decoding poker tells' by Joe Navarro and Marvin Karlins
How to Beat Sit-&-Go Poker Tournaments by Neil Timothy
Poker Nation By Andy Bellin
Texas Hold'em Odds And Probabilities: Limit, No-limit, And Tournament Strategies by Matthew Hilger
Ghosts at the Table by Des Wilson
Your Best Poker Friend: Increase your mental edge by Dr Alan Schoonmaker
The Poker Mindset by Ian Taylor & Matthew Hilger
More Hold 'Em Wisdom for all players by Daniel Negreanu
Tournament Killer Poker By The Numbers : The keys to No Limits Hold 'Em Success by Tony Guerrera
Secrets of Professional Poker 1 by Rolf Slotboom
Secrets of Sit 'n' Gos by Phil Shaw
Life's a Gamble by Roy
Poker Winners Are Different by Dr Alan Schoonmaker
The Education of a Poker Player by Herbert O. Yardley
Zen and the Art of Poker by Larry W Phillips
Poker protection: Cheating and the world of poker by Steve Forte
The Biggest Game in Town by Al Alvarez
Texas Hold'em Odds by Catalin Barboianu
The Poker Tournament Formula II by Arnold Snyder
The Unsinkable Titanic Thompson by Carlton Stowers
True Colours by Adam Gilchrist
Boy Racer by Mark Cavendish
All The Way Jose by Harry Harris
George Cohen: My Autobiography by George Cohen with James Lawton
Once Upon A Time In Naples by John Ludden
Frank Lampard: The Biography by Douglas Thompson
Oh Joey, Joey by Joey Jones
Any chance of a game? by Barney Ronay
Ooh Ah Stantona By Phil Stant
Ronaldo by James Mosley
Rooney Tunes By Mike Parry
A selection of books to greet the arrival of the new Premiership season: (2006-2007)
To Barcelona and Beyond by Paul Smith
Once in a Lifetime by Gavin Newsham
Prawns In The Game: How football got where it is today by Paul French
Tommy Docherty: My Story. Hallowed be thy Game By Tommy Docherty
There's only one Neil Redfearn By Neil Redfearn with Andrew Collomosse
The Match of My Life Series (Liverpool, Leeds United, Fulham, Stoke City, Spurs, Sheffield United, Sunderland, Wolves, European Cup Finals) by Various Authors
Accrington Stanley: The club that wouldn't die by Phil Whalley
Wembley: Stadium of Legends by Pete Tomsett & Chris Brand
Robbie Keane: The biography by Andrew Sleight
Michael Owen: The Biography by Oliver Derbyshire
Rafa Benitez by Paco Lloret
There's an awful lot of bubbly in Brazil by Alan Brazil with Mike Parry
Determined by Norman Whiteside
The Almanack of World Football 2008 by Guy Oliver
Walking Tall by Peter Crouch
Parish to Planet by Eric Midwinter
Deano by Dean Windass with Simon Parker
Outcasts! The Lands That FIFA Forgot by Steve Menary
The Beautiful Game is Over by John Samuels
The Rivals Game: Inside the British Derby by Douglas Beattie
Married to a man of two halves by Agnes Docherty with Tom Docherty
Anfield of Dreams: A Kopite's Odyssey by Neil Dunkin
The Doog: The Incredible Story of Derek Dougan - Football's Most Controversial Figure by David Harrison & Steve Gordos
Football Dynamo: Modern Russia and the People's Game by Marc Bennetts
Forgive us our press passes: An anthology of modern football writing Edited by Christopher Davies
Broken Dreams: Vanity, Greed and the Souring of British Football by Tom Bower
The Story of the World Cup by Brian Glanville
Cycling Is My Life by Tommy Simpson
Thinking Outside the Box by Brad Friedel
And God Created Cricket by Simon Hughes
Ronan O'Gara: My Autobiography
Jellyman's Thrown a Wobbly by Jeff Stelling
When the Whistle Blows by Andrew Riddoch & John Kemp
Roger Federer: Spirit of a Champion By Chris Bowers
Sporting Justice by Ian Hewitt
The Last Champion: The Life of Fred Perry by Jon Henderson
Bad Blood by Jeremy Whittle
Winning is not Enough by Sir Jackie Stewart
The Ashes By Ken Piesse
The Worst of Friends by Colin Shindler
Nothing But Trouble By Herbie Hide
Hello Sailor by Michael Hutchinson
Golf: The cure for a Grumpy Old Man by Peter Alliss
Tommy's Honour by Kevin Cook
Stan Bowles: The Autobiography
Eclipse by Nicholas Clee
It's not the winning that counts by Max Davidson
Last of the Blue Lions by Steve Lewis
Bumper book of useless cricket information by Marc Dawson
The Last Amateurs by Mark de Rond
When Football was Football by Richard Havers
One Ginger Pele by Chris Parker
The Lion & the Eagle by Iain Manson
Regga by Christopher Hilton
Can We Have Our Balls Back Please? by Julian Norridge
Arnie & Jack By Ian O'Connor
Roy of the Rovers: The Unauthorised Biography By Mick Collins
The Tin Man By Ted McMinn with Robin Hutchison
The Bromley Boys by Dave Roberts
When Friday Comes by James Montague
Carra: My Autobiography by Jamie Carragher
Capello: Portrait of a Winner by Gabriele Marcotti
Playing the Enemy by John Carlin
Bradman in Wisden Ed. by Graeme Wright
Heart of Football by David McVay
Heroes, Villains & Velodromes by Richard Moore
A Downhill Lie / Fairway to Hell By Carl Hiaasen
The Book of Surfing by Michael Fordham
The Official Football Yearbook 2008
Head On By Ian Botham
The Great Swim By Gavin Mortimer
A Cultured Left Foot by Muta Okwonga
The Austerity Olympics by Janie Hampton
A-Z of the Grand National By John Cottrell & Marcus Armytage
What sport tells us about life by Ed Smith
Football Obituaries by Ivan Ponting
Football Quotations by Phil Shaw
Hands of Stone by Christian Giudice
Manchester's Finest by David Hall
A Game for Hooligans by Huw Richards
Outcasts! By Steve Menary
Master of the Ring by Graham Gordon
The Hitman by Ricky Hatton
Sport by Tim Harris
Journey to the Open by Padraig Harrington
Supercat by Simon Lister
Wisden Cricketers' Almanac 2008
The Marathon Makers by John Bryant
Bring me the head of Sergio Garcia by Tom Cox
Bellies & Bullseyes by Sid Waddell
Hard Road to Glory by Jonny Nelson with Richard Coomber
My Manchester United Years by Sir Bobby Charlton
Seeing Red by Graham Poll
Sky Sports Football Yearbook
The Underdog By Joshua Davis
Interesting, very interesting By Barry Davies
The Italian Job by Gianluca Vialli
Riding Through the Storm by Geoff Thomas
Gary Neville by Tom Oldfield
An Independent Man by Eddie Jordan
In Search of Robert Millar by Richard Moore
Blazing Saddles by Matt Rendell
Wasted by Paul Smith
The Bowler's Holding, the Batsman's Willey by Geoff Tibballs
From the Eye of the Hurricane by Alex Higgins
The Running Man by Gilbert Tuhabonye
Provided You Don't Kiss Me by Duncan Hamilton
Dubai Millennium by Rachel Pagones
Grovel! By David Tossell
Playfair cricket annual 2007 Edited by Bill Frindall
The Grand Prix Saboteurs by Joe Saward
Fallen Idle by Peter Marinello with Will Price
Tom Cartwright - Tthe Flame Still Burns by Stephen Chalke
Riding the Storm by Timmy Murphy
Out of the Shadows by Dominic Negus
Harry Potts - Margaret's Story by Dave Thomas
Believe in the Sign by Mark Hodkinson
Me And My Mouth by Austin Healey
Jimmy Delaney: The Stuff of Legend by David W. Potter
Slogging the Slavs by Angus Bell
The Accidental Angler by Charles Rangeley-Wilson
Books for Christmas
We all live in a Perry Groves World by Perry Groves
Hitting Out by Ian Chappell with Ashley Mallett
Match Of My Life: The Ashes Ed by Sam Pilger & Rob Wightman
Googlies, Nutmegs and Bogeys by Bob Wilson
Cole Play by Ian Macleay
Feed the Goat by Shaun Goater
Beer & Brine: The making of Walter George by Rob Hadgraft
Seve: Golf's Flawed Genius by Robert Green
How to be a Sports Agent by Mel Stein
Crossing the Boundary by Kevin Pietersen
The Luck Factor by Richard Wiseman
A selection of books to greet the arrival of the new Premiership season:
You Must Like Cricket by Soumya Bhattacharya
Cycling Fit by Jamie Baird
Fantastic Federer by Chris Bowers
The Death of Marco Pantani by Matt Rendell
Bearders: My Life in Cricket by Bill Frindall
Burksey by Peter Morfoot
Willie Irvine: Together Again
Pele: The Autobiography
The Perfect 10 by Richard Williams
Boxing's Hall of Shame by Thomas Myler
Penguins Stopped Play by Harry Thompson
World Cup book review
Steven Gerrard by Adam Cotier
Flat Horses of 2005 Ed: Graham Dench
Hawaii 501: Life as a Darts Pro by Wayne Mardle
From Aintree to York by Stephen Cartmell
Who's the B*****d in the Black? By Jeff Winter
Team Schumacher by Timothy Collings
The Story of the World Cup by Brian Glanville
The Lost Babes: Manchester United & the Forgotten Victims of Munich by Jeff Connor
Unforgivable Blackness by Geoffrey C. Ward
Ooh Ah Stantona by Phil Stant
Johnny Owen by Jeff Murphy
Chelsea FC The Official Biography by Rick Glanvill
Out of the Blue Into the Black by John Spencer
Deadly Doug by Doug Ellis
Football books for Christmas (2005)
Our Christmas selection
Alain Baxter by Andrew Ross
Arkle: The Life & Legacy of 'Himself' by Sean Magee
2006 Almanack of World Football by Guy Oliver
Frank: Fighting Back by Frank Bruno with Kevin Mitchell
Old Stoneface: the autobiography of John Lowe
Rafa Benitez by Paco Lloret
Being Freddie by Andrew Flintoff
Once Upon A Time In Naples by John Ludden
My Spin on Cricket by Richie Benaud
George Cohen: My Autobiography
Fred Titmus: My Life In Cricket by Fred Titmus
Sky Sports Football Yearbook & Soccer at War 1938-45 both by Jack Rollin
Zimmer Men by Marcus Berkmann
Pointless: A season with Britain's worst football team by Jeff Connor
Dad's Army by Neil Drysdale
Tim Henman by Simon Felstein
Lifting the Covers by Alan Mills
Freddie by Tim Ewbank
Ashes to Ashes by Keith Fletcher
Duleepsinhji: Prince of Cricketers by Barry Rickson
Stand Up And Fight by Alan English
Grand Slam! The Year of the Dragon By Paul Rees
Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger
Masters of the Baize by Luke Williams & Paul Gadsby
Dark Trade by Donald McRae
Beaumont's Up and Under by Mark Baldwin
Ring of Hate by Patrick Myler
The Psychology of Poker by Alan Schoonmaker
Facing the Frozen Ocean by Bear Grylls
White Angels by John Carlin
Feet in the Clouds by Richard Askwith
Basil D'Oliveira
On And Off The Field by Ed Smith
Nick Faldo: Life Swings
Deep into the Forest by Daniel Taylor
Jose Mourinho Made in Portugal by Luis Lourenco and Jose Mourinho
Jose Mourinho by Luis Lourenco
Thierry Henry by Oliver Derbyshire
Jose Mourinho by Luis Lourenco
Hail Cesar by Billy McNeill
In The Eye of the Typhoon
The 12 Greatest Rounds of Boxing
The 12 Greatest Rounds of Boxing
Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times by Thomas Hauser
Shit Ground No Fans by Jack Bremner
Tackling My Demons by Stan Collymore with Oliver Holt
Abramovich: The billionaire from nowhere by Dominic Midgley and Chris Hutchins
Frankie: The autobiography of Frankie Dettori
Off The Record by Michael Owen with Paul Hayward
A Lifetime In A Race by Matthew Pinsent
Two Million Strokes A Minute by Matthew Pinsent
An Englishman Abroad: Beckham's Spanish Adventure by Phil Ball
The Long Round by Dominic Calder-Smith
MOTD Football Yearbook by Terry Pratt & Sky Sports Football Yearbook 2004/05 Edited by Glenda Rollin & Jack Rollin
Za-to-pek! by Bob Phillips
Tom Finney: My Autobiography
John Daly: The Biography by Gavin Newsham
Gazza: My Story by Paul Gascoigne with Hunter Davies
Gazza: My Story by Paul Gasgoine with Hunter Davies
Marathon!
The Man Who Hated Football by Will Buckley
The Player: Thte Autobiography of Boris Becker
Jona Lomu: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW!
Who Ate All The Pies? by Mick Quinn
Mick Channon: The Authorised Biography
Thte Power : My Autobiography by Phil Taylor
Manchester United Ruined My Wife by David Blatt
The Perfect Mile
George Best and 21 Others by Colin Shindler
No Coward Soul: The remarkable story of Bob Appleyard
3:59.4 The Quest for the Four Minute Mile
With Friends in High Places
Blue Blood: The Mike Doyle Story
England's Story (DVD)
Nine Lives by Matt Dawson
Right Back to the Beginning
The Bugatti Queen
The King: The Autobiography of Denis Law
Scoring: An Expert's Guide by Frank McAvennie
Bill McLaren: Rugby's Great Heroes and Entertainers
John Oaksey: Mince Pie for Starters
Lance Armstrong: Every Second Counts
King John: The Autobiography of John Charles
Greavsie by Jimmy Greaves
Foul Play by David Thomas
Tom Bower: Broken Dreams: Vanity, Greed and the Souring of British Football
Nobby Stiles: After the Ball
Jason Robinson: Finding My Feet
World Cup 2003 by Team England: The official account of England's World cup triumph
More coming very soon...
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