Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-06-01
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.25
Review The View from the Summit / Corgi Books:"Somewhat vigorous activity" is how Sir Edmund Hillary summarises the first 79 years of his life, and that modest and gentlemanly appraisal sets the tone for this most understated of memoirs. It's nearly half a century since Hillary became an integral part of the last real gasp of British Commonwealth pride, when the news of his ascent of Mount Everest, with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, reached London in time for the coronation of their new young queen. That legendary achievement launches View from the Summit, but Hillary's life since has hardly been all downhill. Sir Ed has also been the impetus behind a massive building programme in Nepal, where he was his country's High Commissioner, received a knighthood and the Order of the Garter from the Queen, and ended up with that rare tribute for a man still alive-his face on the New Zealand five-dollar bill. His story is also one of personal pain, most touchingly conveyed in his simple and moving account of the tragic plane crash deaths of his first wife and 16-year-old daughter. But this is a story which is not over by a long chalk: as Hillary writes on the last page, "There is so much still to do. " -Alan Stewart.
Publication date: 2000-10-19
Dewey code: 791
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.48
Review An Evening with Johnners / Hodder & Stoughton:
Publication date: 1999-10-01
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £14.99
Price: £135.95
Review Dark Destroyer / Blake Publishing:
Publication date: 2007-09-25
Dewey code: 796.332069
RRP: £13.89
Price: £8.23
Review The GM: The Inside Story of a Dream Job and the Nightmares That Go with It / Crown Publishing Group (NY):
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-07-02
Dewey code: 796.83092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.31
Review Amir Khan: A Boy from Bolton: My Story / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Publication date: 2008-01-10
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.99
Review The Driver: My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World / Ebury Press:
Publication date: 2007-09-01
RRP: £20.00
Price: £12.20
Review The Real Bob Paisley / Trinity Mirror Sport Media:
Publication date: 2005-03-07
Dewey code: 798.40092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.67
Review Making the Running: A Racing Life / Headline:
Publication date: 1999-12-10
Dewey code: 796.812092
RRP: £16.99
Price: £12.97
Review Have a Nice Day : A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks / HarperCollins:Frankly, this literary critic didn't expect Mick Foley's memoir of his life as Mankind (and his other wrestling personas, Cactus Jack and Dude Love) to hit No. 1 on Amazon's hardcover non- fiction bestseller list in its first literary bout. The cover is cluttered and confusing and do we really need 500-plus pages of Foley's boasts? Yes. Foley gives his all for his calling and he burns to tell his adventures. Take the famous tale of how he lost most of his ear (the bloody result is depicted in the 16-page, colour photo section). It was in his 1994 bouts with Vader (Leon White), after getting a broken nose, a dislocated jaw, and 21 stitches in the first match, Foley did his "hangman" routine, wherein he catches his neck between the second and third ropes and spins them into a twist: "The end result is the illusion of a man being hanged by his neck while his body kicks and writhes in an attempt to get out. the man actually is hanging by his neck and the body really does kick and writhe in an attempt to get out. " Unfortunately, in the prior match, Too Cold Scorpio had had the officials tighten the ropes so Foley tore off his ear to avoid death by strangulation, like "a fox that chews off its paw to escape a trap. [+]" Foley also wrestles on 10,000-thumbtack mats with barb-wire ropes and C-4 explosives and earns the ultimate compliment: "The fans really like the way you bleed. " Many fans also like the way his gory story reads. -Tim Appelo, Amazon. com.
Publication date: 2007-10-04
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.07
Review From the Eye of the Hurricane: My Story / Headline:
Publication date: 2005-09-08
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.86
Review Rafa Benitez: The Authorised Biography by Paco Lloret / Dewi Lewis Media Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-06-05
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.92
Review Footypedia / Century:
Publication date: 2000-10-05
Dewey code: 796
Price: £16.99
Review The Green Line: Views from Sport's Most Outspoken Commentator / Headline Book Publishing:
Publication date: 2008-04-25
RRP: £16.99
Price: £2.54
Review Dizzy: The Jason Gillespie Story / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-04-02
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.20
Review Ali, Pele, Lillee and Me: A Personal Odyssey Through the Sporting Seventies / Pocket Books:
Publication date: 2007-10-01
RRP: £18.99
Price: £11.26
Review Tana Umaga: Up Close / Hodder Moa:
Publication date: 2008-05-15
Dewey code: 796.72092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.49
Review An Independent Man: The Autobiography / Orion:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-01-01
Dewey code: 306.4830941
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.90
Review Terrace Legends / Blake Publishing:
Publication date: 2006-05-08
RRP: £18.99
Price: £0.01
Review Robbo: My Autobiography / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:
Publication date: 1999-03-12
Dewey code: 791
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.00
Review I am Jackie Chan / Pan Books:Jackie Chan is not only the biggest martial arts star in the world; due to his massive fame in the Far East he is probably the most popular movie star on the planet. This authorised biography tells a classic rags-to-riches story of how he got there. Born in Hong Kong to a poor Migrant family, Chan was sent to Chinese Opera school to study under a disciplinarian teacher. He acquired a solid grounding in physical expression and left aged 16 to become a stuntman in the Hong King film industry. By sheer force of personality, tenacity and some genuinely impressive stunts, he quickly became a box-office favourite and a star. Chan is just starting to break through in Hollywood and this is obviously where his considerable energies are now being directed. "I've been on Letterman and Jay Leno", he proudly claims, "I've gotten an award on MTV. Lionel Richie came to visit me on the set". But despite his new friends Chan has never forgotten how far he has come and ends the book with a poetic statement of his achievement. "I was a useless child. [+]/ A ragged boy. / A reckless teen. / And now -/ Look who I am now!". -Nick Wroe.
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