Publication date: 2003-05-05
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.92
Review High Adventure / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2005-08-30
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £18.99
Price: £4.30
Review Bobby Moore: By the Person Who Knew Him Best / HarperCollinsWillow:He remains one of the most iconic figure is in football; and Tina Moore's Bobby Moore: By The Person Who Knew him Best is a book that will find a very ready audience. The jacket of the book uses just one sentence from the woman who was married to him for 24 years, in which she asks the reader to forget the Prime Minister, Prince Charles John Lennon and Paul McCartney: on the night of his greatest success, Bobby Moore was the most famous man in England. When he died in 1993 at the young age of 51, the shock felt throughout the country was palpable: his good looks and charisma, his winning personality and (most of all) his astonishing skill on the field ensured that Moore, the only English football captain ever to raise the World Cup, was a much-loved figure. And, unlike so many of his contemporaries, he had few of the character flaws that render many footballers so unlovable. Not that Moore was a saint: Tina Moore's book is as frank about the bad times as it is celebratory of the good. He was an extremely introspective and rather enigmatic man, and few people (outside of the woman he married in 1960) really got to know the man. And his success was not achieved without cost: serious illness in his 20s, bitter conflicts with the England manager Ron Greenwood, the kidnap threats against his children - all are handled here with sympathy and understanding by Tina. In a natural, unforced authorial voice, she is particularly good on the media circus that made their lives a living hell (intrusive media attention is by no means a recent phenomenon, as we learn). The on-the-field triumphs are all here, of course, but it goes without saying that the personal life of the couple is most important to the woman who was married to Moore for so many years; strong sections of the book deal with the grim time of Bogata, when Moore suffered accusations of theft, and his psychological difficulties when adjusting to the fact that he could no longer play as in his heyday. The break-up of the marriage is a particularly poignant section, and the final effect of the book is of a heartening tribute to a remarkable sportsman. [+]-Barry Forshaw.
Publication date: 2005-11-04
Dewey code: 798
RRP: £20.00
Price: £6.95
Review The Horses of My Life / Blake Publishing:
Publication date: 1996-08-22
Price: £14.99
Review Mr. Wright: The Explosive Autobiography of Ian Wright / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-03-31
Dewey code: 302.33
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.96
Review Bovver / Blake Publishing:
Publication date: 2007-10-04
Dewey code: 796.35209411
RRP: £17.01
Price: £9.99
Review The Seventh at St. Andrews: How Scotsman David McLay Kidd and His Ragtag Band Built the First New Course on Golf's Holy Soil in Nearly a Century / Gotham Books:
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 2007-11-16
RRP: £11.99
Price: £8.39
Review Ronnie Delany: Staying the Distance / O'Brien Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-03-01
RRP: £15.99
Price: £33.95
Review The Boys from the Mersey: The Story of Liverpool's Annie Road End Crew Football's First Clobbered-up Mob / Milo Books:
Publication date: 2006-09-21
RRP: £18.99
Price: £0.01
Review My Defence: Winning, losing, scandals and the drama of Germany 2006 / Headline Book Publishing:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2006-02-02
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.67
Review Who's the B*****d in the Black?: Confessions of a Premiership Referee / Ebury Press:
Publication date: 2008-05-05
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.96
Review Arise Sir David Beckham / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-07-01
Dewey code: 796.334092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.73
Review Didier Drogba - Portrait of A Hero: Portrait of a Hero / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-05-27
Dewey code: 790
RRP: £13.95
Price: £4.01
Review Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's Life and 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict / Three Rivers Press (CA):
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-02-21
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £25.00
Price: £14.12
Review Colin Chapman: The Man and His Cars - The Authorized Biography / J H Haynes & Co Ltd:
Authors
- Neil Chandler
- William Regal
Dewey code: 796.812092
Price: £10.47
Review Walking a Golden Mile / World Wrestling Entertainment Books:
Authors
- Paul and Klosterman Shirley
Publication date: 2008-03-25
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.64
Review Can I Keep My Jersey? / Villard Books:
Publication date: 2006-10-16
Dewey code: 791.092
RRP: £18.99
Price: £18.04
Review Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing: The Definitive Biography of a Comedy Legend / HarperCollins Entertainment:
Authors
- Colin Montgomerie
- Lewine Mair
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £18.99
Price: £9.95
Review The Real Monty: The Autobiography of Colin Montgomerie / Orion:The Real Monty attempts to redress the balance between Colin Montgomerie's public image and the often forgotten fact that he's a hugely talented, hugely successful international sportsman. You know, that image-chin sunk into his ample bosom, face red with sulky frustration, bottom lip wobbling gently as he stalks off towards his next shot. Written with journalist Lewine Mair, this is Monty's version of his rise to the top of the tree in European golf-a record-breaking seven-time Tour champion; a star performer in six Ryder Cups-and his struggle to punch his real weight in the US, or at Major level; the hecklers, the tantrums, the remorseless press, and the weight of expectation that has buoyed him up and threatened to drown him in turns. It's all in the mind of course-spectators, journalists and the golfers themselves have become obsessed with mental strengths and failings, with winning the inner game-and Monty was marked out long ago as having lost crucial contests due to a suspect temperament. The trouble with such analysis, which Monty is happy to corroborate with regard to specific occasions, is that it makes for such lush, easy media copy that reality can get lost in the long grass. Parts of this lavishly illustrated book find Monty hacking away at that rough, and it's not a pretty sight-but when the score-settling stops, this is a straightforward, open account of what it has been like to succeed and fail, both personally and professionally, on an epic scale, as Monty has done. -Alex Hankin.
Publication date: 2000-10-26
Dewey code: 796.83092
Price: £16.99
Review The Tartan Legend: The Autobiography / Headline Book Publishing:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2001-04-26
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £8.99
Price: £190.78
Review Night Train: A Biography of Sonny Liston / Penguin:
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High Adventure, Bobby Moore: By the Person Who Knew Him Best, The Horses of My Life, Mr. Wright: The Explosive Autobiography of Ian Wright, Bovver, The Seventh at St. Andrews: How Scotsman David McLay Kidd and His Ragtag Band Built the First New Course on Golf's Holy Soil in Nearly a Century, Ronnie Delany: Staying the Distance, The Boys from the Mersey: The Story of Liverpool's Annie Road End Crew Football's First Clobbered-up Mob, My Defence: Winning, losing, scandals and the drama of Germany 2006, Who's the B*****d in the Black?: Confessions of a Premiership Referee, Arise Sir David Beckham, Didier Drogba - Portrait of A Hero: Portrait of a Hero, Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's Life and 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict, Colin Chapman: The Man and His Cars - The Authorized Biography, Walking a Golden Mile, Can I Keep My Jersey?, Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing: The Definitive Biography of a Comedy Legend, The Real Monty: The Autobiography of Colin Montgomerie, The Tartan Legend: The Autobiography, Night Train: A Biography of Sonny Liston |
