Authors
- Rob Robertson
- Eleanor Preston
Dewey code: 796.342092
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.17
Review Andy Murray: The Story So Far... / Mainstream Publishing:
Publication date: 1996-12
Price: £9.99
Review Terminator: Authorised Julian Dicks Story / Polar Print Group Ltd:
Publication date: 2001-09
Price: £16.99
Review An Away Game Every Week: Memories of Bristol Rovers / Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-09-18
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £14.00
Price: £12.16
Review The Beautiful Struggle / Xlibris Corporation:
Publication date: 2006-10-05
RRP: £18.99
Price: £0.22
Review JPR: Given the Breaks - My Life in Rugby / Hodder & Stoughton:
Publication date: 1998-11
Price: £17.99
Review Jenny Pitman: The Autobiography / Partridge Press:To use modern parlance, Jenny Pitman OBE faced a double whammy when she applied for her trainer's licence. First, she was an outsider to the world of racing; second, and more importantly, she was a woman in what was still very much a man's world. As she tells us in her frank and entertaining autobiography, simply titled Jenny Pitman, she overcame the first problem much easier than beating the second. Known throughout the equine world as the first woman of racing, Mrs Pitman-now Mrs Stait after marrying her long-time partner David Stait in early 1998-is still having to bang her head against the brick wall that is sex discrimination. She tells how, after entering a fitness regime at the beginning of 1998 and looking and feeling better than she had for years, a male colleague asked whether or not her sex life had improved as she appeared so fit and healthy! But racing has been Jenny Pitman's life and the book is a no-holds barred account of a truly remarkable career. After telling of her happy childhood as the middle child of seven spent on a Leicestershire farm run by her parents, she describes the happiness she felt at her teenage marriage to jockey Richard Pitman. That joy was to turn to tears 10 years later when her first husband, and father of Jenny's two boys Mark and Paul, twice walked out on her. However, the outwardly tough-as-teak Jenny gritted her teeth and got on with the job of training racehorses. Jenny has achieved success in the world's toughest races and she fully describes the joy and heartbreak of landing two (it should have been three but Esha Ness's success came in the 1993 void race) Grand Nationals. Then there were the other Grand Nationals, the Scottish, Welsh and finally to complete the set, Irish versions of the event. [+]In 1984 she became the only woman to train a Cheltenham Gold Cup winner and followed that up when the same horse, Burrough Hill Lad, became the first trained by a woman to land the coveted Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup. That was a record which stood until Venetia Williams took 1998's running. It is a frank book which covers and fully explains her run-ins with officialdom, press and even jockeys. The lead-up to her spat with Jamie Osborne is fully explained, as are the reasons behind her famous letter to Aintree officials over the state of the ground at 1998's Grand National. All in all, an enjoyable and informative read in which Mrs Pitman, as usual, pulls no punches.
Authors
- David Miller
- Sebastian Coe
Publication date: 1985-06-01
Price: £1.50
Review Running Free / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-10-05
RRP: £18.99
Price: £0.22
Review JPR: Given the Breaks - My Life in Rugby / Hodder & Stoughton:
Publication date: 2003-10-20
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £18.99
Price: £161.41
Review Eubank: The Autobiography / HarperCollinsWillow:
Publication date: 2007-05-03
Dewey code: 796.352092
RRP: £9.12
Price: £2.49
Review Paper Tiger: An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play with the Pros / Gotham Books:
Publication date: 2005-08-22
Dewey code: 796
Price: £16.99
Review My Winning Season / HarperSport:
Publication date: 2003-11-15
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £11.95
Price: £7.40
Review From the Himalaya to Skye / Rockbuy Limited:
Publication date: 1995-12-31
Dewey code: 796.83092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £39.22
Review Only in America / William Morrow:
Publication date: 1999-10-08
Dewey code: 799
Price: £20.00
Review Fifty Years a Fisherman / Boxtree Ltd:In all the slow, quiet bays and side streams off the main river shoals of piranha wait to chomp your morenita in half, so a step down in hook and bait size is imperative. The face of British angling, television star, big fish specialist and author of countless excellent guides to the sport of rod and line, John Wilson finally reveals a little of the man behind the beard in a beautifully illustrated memoir. From the 1950s when a generously quiffed teenager fished the waters of Enfield for roach to his most recent adventures in Africa and India, on the trail of truly monstrous mahseer and catfish, Wilson has travelled the world with a rod in one hand and a camera in the other. The results areimpressive and will have even the most stay-at-home angler reaching for the tackle box and travel brochures. Unfettered enthusiasm and flair for self-publicity have taken him from cruiseship hairstylist to one-man publishing and media phenomenon. It's the sort of public profile that draws flak and his critics will have plenty to enjoy, but from behind his familiar peculiarities of style, the author emerges as a talented and industrious sportsman and communicator. His "All-time Big Fish List" and the stories behind it are the final word on his abilities. Characteristically readable and informative, with love of the natural world and fishing as his themes, Wilson reflects publicly for the first time on the personal meaning of a lifelong immersion in his own passions. -Alex Hankin.
Publication date: 2006-09-07
Dewey code: 796.358092
RRP: £18.99
Price: £4.46
Review Crossing the Boundary: The Early Years in My Cricketing Life / Ebury Press:
Publication date: 2002-09-05
RRP: £18.99
Price: £25.00
Review Slim Jim Baxter: The Definitive Biography / Virgin Books:
Creator: Doug Scott
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-03-20
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.84
Review In High Places / Canongate Books:
Publication date: 2003-10-17
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.61
Review Snow Crazy / Metro Books,London:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-10-13
Price: £6.99
Review Steaming in: Journal of a Football Fan / Pocket Books:
Creator: Muhammad Ali
Publication date: 1998-09-01
Price: £16.99
Review Reg Gutteridge: My Autobiography / Blake Publishing:
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