Creator: Jeremy Roberts
Edition: Pocket Books Hardcover Ed
Publication date: 2006-11-06
Dewey code: 796.81209
RRP: £17.99
Price: £9.51
Review Controversy Creates Cash (WWE) / Pocket Books:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-11-02
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.63
Review Iestyn Harris: There and Back - My Journey from League to Union and Back Again / Mainstream Publishing:
Publication date: 2003-05-19
Dewey code: 796
Price: £17.99
Review Barry Sheene: 1950-2003 / HarperCollinsWillow:
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: 1997-01-03
Dewey code: 629.2092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £19.99
Review The Reynard Story: From Formula Ford to Indy Car Championships / Patrick Stephens Ltd:
Publication date: 2000-08-31
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £17.99
Price: £28.44
Review Psycho: The Autobiography / Headline Book Publishing:The BBC's Barry Davies said on the commentary, "What a penalty! What a great penalty!" It was not a great penalty; it was a shite penalty but the goalkeeper had gone the wrong way. The penalty in question was against Germany in the 1996 European Championship, and the blunt assessor of its merit was the penalty-taker-international stalwart and sometime England captain Stuart Pearce. Since 1990, when he missed a penalty that ushered in England's exit from the World Cup, Pearce and spot-kick calamity had been inextricably linked in the public's mind. England's battling left-back had buried that hoodoo in spectacularly emotional fashion against Spain in the previous round, and it's typical of this diffident, self-possessed player that one match later he was dismissing the plaudits. Backbone of the defence and a regular in the line for the treatment table-from his days as a part-time electrician playing for non-league Wealdstone to his Indian summer in the Premiership with current club West Ham-Pearce's career has been a sustained battle to overcome the limitations of his body and blunt the more extravagant abilities of the flair players who lay siege to his goal week in, week out. In a story of extraordinary achievement-and equally conspicuous misfortune and failure-as both player and manager, Pearce recalls the legends and also-rans he has met along the way, offering no-nonsense portraits of the likes of Brian Clough, Glenn Hoddle and Rudd Gullit, and an insider's take on the realities of the professional game. The fans who have cherished his do-or-die on pitch heroics may find Pearce's real-world motivations surprising. Psycho is an entertaining, revealing portrait of an English sporting icon-with Pearce on his love of punk music, his short-lived career as a juvenile delinquent and tales of a hen called Chicken Kiev, as an added bonus. -Alex Hankin.
Publication date: 2005-02-03
Price: £18.99
Review The Villain: The Life of Don Whillans / Hutchinson:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-06-01
Dewey code: 910.45092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.98
Review The Last Man Across the Atlantic / Mainstream Publishing:
Publication date: 2005-09-12
Dewey code: 796.358092
RRP: £18.99
Price: £0.01
Review My Spin on Cricket / Hodder & Stoughton:
Publication date: 1999-11-01
Dewey code: 796.83092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £20.00
Review The Flame of Pure Fire / Thomson Learning:
Publication date: 2003-05-19
Dewey code: 796
Price: £17.99
Review Barry Sheene: 1950-2003 / HarperCollinsWillow:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-10-01
Price: £7.99
Review Thrust: The Remarkable Story of One Man's Quest for Speed / Bantam Books:Ever since Dr Johnson declared 200 years ago that no man travelling at 20mph in a coach could possibly "continue to draw breath", there has been no shortage of nay-sayers. They said it over and over to Richard Noble and his team, but they went ahead anyway and in October 1997 ThrustSSC, driven by RAF Squadron leader Andy Green, smashed through the sound barrier to set the first supersonic land speed record of 763mph. This absorbing and richly illustrated book tells of Noble's obsessive quest for speed, beginning as a six-year-old watching John Cobb's 200mph jet boat Crusader and ending in triumph in the Nevada desert. There is as much financial as technical detail-Noble imaginatively and profitably stalked the Internet for donations as corporate sponsors fell by the wayside-and a jingoistic subplot as the Brits and Yanks vied with each other to achieve the sonic boom first. But mostly this is a human story of struggle, achievement and the peculiar meanings of success. "We'd got through this", says Noble, "we'd succeeded. But success can be very sad once you've got over the initial elation. Suddenly it's all over and it can never be savoured again. " -Nick Wroe.
Authors
- Ted Macaulay
- James Toseland
Publication date: 2006-08-10
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.74
Review James Toseland: The Autobiography / Virgin Books:
Publication date: 2005-02-07
Dewey code: 796.323092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £2.51
Review When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback / Simon & Schuster Ltd:
Authors
- Gerald Rambert
- Amanda Ursell
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.04
Review Going Down: Relections of a Reluctant Diver / New Holland Publishers Ltd:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-03-27
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £10.42
Price: £4.85
Review Tommy's Honor: The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf's Founding Father and Son / Gotham Books:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-11-02
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.63
Review Iestyn Harris: There and Back - My Journey from League to Union and Back Again / Mainstream Publishing:
Authors
- Roger Black
- Mike Rowbottom
Publication date: 1999-04-19
Dewey code: 796.423092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £24.95
Review How Long's the Course? / Andre Deutsch Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1998-03
RRP: £8.00
Price: £6.90
Review The Quiet Waters by (Working Waterways) / M.& M.Baldwin:
Publication date: 2005-02-07
Dewey code: 796.323092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £2.51
Review When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback / Simon & Schuster Ltd:
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