Authors
- Nick Robinson
- Patrick Robinson
Publication date: 1994-05-23
RRP: £8.99
Price: £21.25
Review Horsetrader: Robert Sangster and the Rise and Fall of the Sport of Kings / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-08-23
Dewey code: 796.334092
RRP: £18.99
Price: £4.00
Review Michael Owen: Off the Record / HarperCollinsWillow:Boy wonders come and boy wonders go, but Michael Owen has made the giant leap from sensational teenage star into one of the most consistent and respected strikers in world football - and he's still only 24 at the time of writing his new autobiography, Off The Record. A child goal-machine in North Wales who went on to acheive at all levels of the game - defying expectations at the ease with which he took each step upwards - Owen has seemingly been the star turn since he was in diapers. The decision to move from Liverpool to Real Madrid this season, and the fleeting shadow this has cast over his sun, is for now, the last chapter in the Owen legend. Owen first scaled the peak of public and professional esteem at the 1998 World Cup. His breathtaking solo strike against Argentina was an exposition of youthful audacity, skill and self-belief beamed repeatedly around the world - but as Off The Record reveals, the TV pictures only tell half the story. Did you know that at the crucial moment, after Owen had waltzed through the Argentine defence into the area, an inrushing Paul Scholes optimistically demanded the ball with a shout of "Scholesy's!"? Or that, afterwards, with England knocked out on penalties and his team-mates crushed by the loss, Owen confesses to greeting his family with a broad smile of self-satisfaction, having succeeded in his own performance? The fundamental selfishness of the top striker is a recurring theme for Owen, and makes for fascinating reading - but will win him few friends. Warts and all autobiography is the modern standard of course, and while chapters in Off The Record are primarily concerned with simply correcting public stories about England abroad, Owen's gambling, his problems with one-time Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier, and the suicide of Owen's interior designer Mike Flynn, it is the frankness of acknowledging the underlying 'me first, team second' reality which makes the usual procession of achievements and frustrations really come alive. Not for nothing, one suspects, does the book end with an exhaustive statistical account of Owen's career. Every England appearance is there. But only the Liverpool games he actually scored in. [+]-Alex Hankin For a collection of 10 postcards, this publication is very good value. Each one is a colour shot of the young striker in a different pose, covering his leisure, training and playing activities. Detachable so you can send them to all your friends who also love the Liverpool and England international, the "stubbs" have colour pictures and, as an added bonus, a multitude of facts and information on the back. So, once you've posted them out to everyone you know, you still have a lasting memento of the young Michael Owen's career. -Amazon. co. uk.
Creator: Frank Williams
Publication date: 1999-10-21
Dewey code: 796.7209
RRP: £2.99
Price: £0.01
Review Chasing the Title: Memorable Moments from Fifty Years of Formula 1 / J H Haynes & Co Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-04-19
Dewey code: 790
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.24
Review Johnny Kincaid: Wrestling's Ring Side Seat / AuthorHouse:
Publication date: 2001-10-04
RRP: £18.99
Price: £3.99
Review Jeremy Guscott Autobiography / Headline Book Publishing:
Publication date: 2008-03-31
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.84
Review Keys to the Kingdom / Penguin Ireland:
Publication date: 2005-07-15
Dewey code: 796.75092
RRP: £13.37
Price: £23.54
Review James Stewart: Motocross Great (Edge Books, Dirt Bikes) / Edge Books:
Creator: Giacomo Agostini
Publication date: 2000-04-17
Dewey code: 796.75092
RRP: £25.00
Price: £14.70
Review Mike Hailwood: A Motorcycle Racing Legend / J H Haynes & Co Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-04-06
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £17.99
Price: £48.39
Review The Don: The Definitive Biography Of Sir Donald Bradman / Virgin Books:Anyone who knows anything about Don Bradman will repeat by rote the most famous statistic in cricket: that his batting average stood at 99. 94 when he chose to end his Test career. But that is all they are likely to know. "The most gentlemanly, polite, ruthless and efficient sporting dominator who ever lived" (in the words of one opponent), is also one of the most enigmatic characters. Viciously protective of his privacy, few have been granted an audience with The Don. Accounts of his life have perforce read like little more than statistical overload. But at last there is credence in an author's claims to have produced the "Definitive Biography" of The Don. Authoritative and comprehensive, yes. But insightful too. From the Bowral boy whose ambition was to represent New South Wales, to Test match record breaker, to nonagenarian recluse, Bradman is painted above all as a human being. [+]Most important of all, the tone is of the writer, not the statistician. With exclusive and rare access to the Don in researching this book, Perry answers the most interesting question of all: What made someone who was a good, but not outstanding, teenage cricketer have a Test average almost 40 runs better than his nearest rival? The answer is not in a single sentence, but in the portrait of a shy but confident boy, unorthodox and self-taught who burned with ambition and danced to his own tune. -Thrasy Petropoulos.
Publication date: 2008-06-02
Dewey code: 796.334092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £9.91
Review Owen Hargreaves - The Biography of Manchester United's Midfield Maestro / John Blake Publishing:
Publication date: 2008-12-18
RRP: £18.99
Price: £11.39
Review Eric Bristow - The Autobiography: The Crafty Cockney / Century:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2005-03-24
Dewey code: 796.352092
RRP: £7.50
Price: £1.20
Review To the Linksland: A Golfing Adventure / Gotham Books:
Publication date: 2008-07-21
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.14
Review Seve: Golf's Flawed Genius / Robson Books Ltd:
Creator: Maurice Lindsay
Publication date: 2002-03-01
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £9.95
Price: £1.22
Review Bamford: Memoirs of a Blood and Thunder Coach (Rugby) / Parrs Wood Press:
Publication date: 2002-09-05
Price: £17.99
Review The Greatest Game Ever Played: Vardon, Ouimet and the Birth of Modern Golf / Little, Brown:
Publication date: 1981-03
Dewey code: 796.426
Price: £3.95
Review The Flying Scotsman: Biography of Eric Liddell / Quartet Books:
Publication date: 2006-11-17
Dewey code: 796.332092
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.98
Review The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game / W. W. Norton & Co.:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-04-01
Price: £6.99
Review Greg Norman: The Biography / Corgi Books:
Authors
- Farokh Engineer
- John Cantrell
Publication date: 2005-06-01
Dewey code: 796.358092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.90
Review Farokh Engineer From the Far Pavilion (100 Greats S.) (100 Greats S.) / The History Press LTD:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-12-12
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.77
Review Bobby Dazzler: My Story / Orion:
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