Creator: Susan M. Moyer
Edition: Ill
Publication date: 2007-09
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £6.59
Price: £3.34
Review Bill Walsh: Remembering "The Genius": 1931-2007 / Sports Publishing LLC:
Creator: John Little
Publication date: 1998-10-27
Dewey code: 791.43028092
RRP: £7.61
Price: £3.56
Review Letters of the Dragon: Correspondence, 1958-73 (Bruce Lee Library) / Tuttle Publishing,US:
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 2007-11-16
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.65
Review Ronnie Delany: Staying the Distance / O'Brien Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-04-10
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.95
Review In Search of Tiger: A Journey Through Golf with Tiger Woods / Mainstream Publishing:
Authors
- Frank Keating
- Graham Gooch
Publication date: 1996-05-09
Price: £5.99
Review Gooch: My Autobiography / HarperCollinsWillow:
Creator: Giacomo Agostini
Publication date: 2000-04-17
Dewey code: 796.75092
RRP: £25.00
Price: £10.16
Review Mike Hailwood: A Motorcycle Racing Legend / J H Haynes & Co Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-04-08
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.88
Review The Paddy and the Prince: Making of Naseem Hamed / Yellow Jersey Press:
Publication date: 2005-08-08
RRP: £18.99
Price: £11.90
Review The Crazy Gang: The Inside Story of Vinnie, Harry, Fash and Wimbledon FC / Highdown:
Publication date: 2002-09-01
Dewey code: 305.389664092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £8.99
Review Hero of Flight 93: Mark Bingham / Alyson Publications Inc:
Publication date: 2004-08-23
Dewey code: 796.334092
RRP: £18.99
Price: £9.00
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: Jim Perrin
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2004-01
Dewey code: 910.09143
RRP: £12.70
Price: £9.31
Review H. W. Tilman: The Seven Mountain-Travel Books / Mountaineers Books:
Authors
- Tommy Gemmell
- Graham McColl
Publication date: 2005-08-04
Price: £9.99
Review Tommy Gemmell: Lionheart / Virgin Books:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-04-17
RRP: £16.99
Price: £61.36
Review The Rock Says: The Most Electrifying Man in Sports-Entertainment / HarperCollinsWillow:Hot on the bleeding heels of Mankind's Have a Nice Day!, here's another memoir edited by the same prose coach, the clever Jeremie Ruby-Strauss (and co-authored by Joe Layden). Dwayne Johnson, aka the Rock, gives you plenty of colourful, jumbled action photos and the growling accounts of staged mayhem that made Mankind a bestseller. But actually, his story is more interesting than that of Mankind, his occasional ring rival. The noisy action chapters alternate with passages of more reflective conventional autobiography. The Rock is a third-generation pro wrestler and his book amounts to a history of the sport. His grandpa, High Chief Peter Maivia, was a Samoan important enough to be buried in Diamond Head's crater, and his dad, Rocky Johnson, was George Foreman's sparring partner and the first black American World Wrestling Federation Intercontinental champ. The Rock is candid about the battles his family faced outside the ring: the marriage-testing road lifestyle, his dad's most important win (over the bottle) and the author's own dangerous temper. There's something touching about the Rock's unpromising debut in his Uncle Tonga's old trunks, in his reverence for his elders-and something scary about his reaction when he thinks people lack such respect. What, you say? You'd rather hear about the Rock's "schmozz" (free-for-all) with Mankind, or Faarooq and the interracial Nation of Domination, or that Budweiser-popping piece of trailer trash Stone Cold Steve Austin, or the Undertaker, whose skin is "the colour of bad meat"? You want to hear how he started out sleeping on a pungent mattress retrieved from a garbage dump and wound up wearing Versace shirts and chatting up Gennifer Flowers on TV at Wrestle Mania XIV? You crave the secrets of the Frankenstein, the Gorilla Position and Jake the Snake? That's all here too. Just hop in the ring-The Rock will show you around. [+]-Tim Appelo.
Publication date: 2001-11
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £16.99
Price: £39.40
Review Sniffer: The Life and Times of Allan Clarke / NPI Media Group:
Publication date: 2007-04
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.58
Review Peter Broadbent: A Biography / Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-05-31
RRP: £18.99
Price: £0.01
Review From the Eye of the Hurricane: My Story / Headline:
Publication date: 2002-11-01
Dewey code: 796.333
RRP: £14.95
Price: £10.99
Review The Gwilliam Seasons: John Gwilliam and the Second Golden Era of Welsh Rugby / Seren Books:
Publication date: 2008-03-03
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.33
Review The Marathon Makers / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-12-15
Dewey code: 796.93092
RRP: £14.95
Price: £6.72
Review Hermann Maier: The Race of My Life / VeloPress:
Publication date: 2000-03-31
Dewey code: 796.812092
Price: £9.95
Review Bret "Hitman" Hart / Stoddart Publishing,Canada:
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