Authors
- Peter Gerrard
- Lenny McLean
Publication date: 2007-02-28
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.19
Review The Guv'nor Tapes / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-08-07
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.71
Review Wenger: The Making of a Legend / Short Books, London:
Creator: David Ashforth
Publication date: 2008-11-03
RRP: £16.99
Price: £11.21
Review A Gambler's Diary: Living the Dream / Highdown:
Publication date: 2007-05-29
RRP: £10.99
Price: £26.98
Review Left for Dead: The Untold Story of the Tragic 1979 Fastnet Race / Adlard Coles Nautical:
Publication date: 2008-03-20
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.69
Review The Irishman Who Ran for England / Currach Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-02-07
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.99
Review Right Back to the Beginning: The Autobiography / Headline:
Publication date: 2005-04-07
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £8.99
Price: £25.00
Review On and off the Field: Ed Smith in 2003 / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-02-01
RRP: £9.99
Price: £8.11
Review The FC Nantes Experiment: One Man's Odyssey of French Football / Antony Rowe Publishing Services:
Publication date: 2006-09-01
Dewey code: 918.412
RRP: £17.50
Price: £8.77
Review Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival / Boomerang New Media:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2006-11-15
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £11.99
Price: £10.92
Review Charley Burley and the Black Murderers' Row / TORA BOOK PUBLISHING:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-05-18
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.16
Review Jock Stein: The Definitive Biography / Highdown:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2005-08-15
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £18.99
Price: £2.13
Review Giggs: The Autobiography / Michael Joseph Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-11-15
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.56
Review Red Army General: The Inside Story of the World's Most Infamous Football Firm / Milo Books:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-09-05
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.98
Review Enzo Ferrari: A Life / Yellow Jersey Press:
Publication date: 2007-06-07
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.86
Review In Where It Hurts / Vision Sports Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-07-07
Dewey code: 790
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.65
Review Laptop Dancing and the Nanny Goat Mambo: A Sports Writer's Year / Pocket Books/TownHouse:
Publication date: 2007-09-20
Dewey code: 796.334092
RRP: £18.99
Price: £1.55
Review Walking Tall / Hodder & Stoughton:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-04-14
Dewey code: 797.1230922
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.44
Review Four Men in a Boat: The Inside Story of the Sydney 2000 Coxless Four / Phoenix:
Publication date: 2008-03-27
Dewey code: 796.72092
RRP: £30.00
Price: £16.87
Review Jim Clark: A Photographic Portrait / J H Haynes & Co Ltd:
Publication date: 2002-10-17
Price: £18.99
Review Henry Cooper: The Authorised Biography / BBC Books:Henry Cooper: the Authorised Biography of Britain's Greatest Boxing Hero seeks to redress and celebrate the central anomaly of Cooper's career, namely that he is best remembered for one punch in a fight he lost. The left hook with which he floored Cassius Clay in 1963 which is still widely regarded as the defining point of his career. Published 39 years after that fight with Clay (later Muhammad Ali) and 31 years after Cooper hung up his gloves for good, Edwards' work is also an exercise in time travel. It visits a London, a sport and a society that seem almost unrecognisable-by turns impossibly gentle and brutal, cynical and naive. Of the brutality, we are spared very little. Try this notably visceral description of the newly-crowned British heavyweight champion's condition after a particularly brutal fight: "The 3 lbs of congealed blood that he had ingested, a giant blutwurst really, also took some time to remove itself: 'I was so swollen up and sore, I couldn't even wear trousers for a week. '" Last year's intelligent, entertaining biography of Stirling Moss proved that Edwards is a sparky, opinionated writer who can produce memorably rich, evocative prose blended with slices of wit, pomposity and bombast. This book, while unmistakably an authorised account, crackles with enthusiasm, not least, one suspects, because Edwards turns up new material throughout. Think you know the story of Clay and 'Enery's 'Ammer? Think again. -Alex Hankin.
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The Guv'nor Tapes, Wenger: The Making of a Legend, A Gambler's Diary: Living the Dream, Left for Dead: The Untold Story of the Tragic 1979 Fastnet Race, The Irishman Who Ran for England, Right Back to the Beginning: The Autobiography, On and off the Field: Ed Smith in 2003, The FC Nantes Experiment: One Man's Odyssey of French Football, Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival, Charley Burley and the Black Murderers' Row, Jock Stein: The Definitive Biography, Giggs: The Autobiography, Red Army General: The Inside Story of the World's Most Infamous Football Firm, Enzo Ferrari: A Life, In Where It Hurts, Laptop Dancing and the Nanny Goat Mambo: A Sports Writer's Year, Walking Tall, Four Men in a Boat: The Inside Story of the Sydney 2000 Coxless Four, Jim Clark: A Photographic Portrait, Henry Cooper: The Authorised Biography |
