Sports & Games

Kerry Packer revolutionised cricket in the 70s. Today we are used to coloured clothing & razzmatazz, but Packer nearly broke the game completely. For a while it looked as if cricket might not survive. Blofeld's detailed document compiled in '78 shows concern for the human dimensions and makes The Man Who Coloured Cricket a dramatic & moving story.

Lionel Messi is a mesmerising talent who has continued to astound the world of football ever since assuming his role at the heart of a star-studded Barcelona side in 2004. Overcoming a career-threatening growth hormone deficiency, he has won almost everything there is to win, including an unprecedented ...

Fully updated for 2018, Top of The League is the perfect book for any football fan. Amusing stats and fascinating facts combine with quirky graphics to provide an entertaining guide to all aspects of the beautiful game.

Imagine that you are an average American man. You work hard and love football. Your present is a highway of unbounded opportunity, your future a far horizon unclouded by doubt. Then comes middle age. Who can you look to when the highway begins to crack, when opportunity shrinks to the size of a cubicle, and the horizon looms close? For Richard J.

Examines the lives sports players, journalists, coaches and administrators who work far away from the sporting limelight

A travel narrative that conveys the freshness of the Christian faith and the excitement of being on a gap year. An insight into the lives of persecuted Christian communities the world over.

Globalized sport as savage spectacle and "opium of the people".

2016 will mark the 20th anniversary of the last time that the England football team were a major world force. Structured around this glorious summer, understood, in hindsight to be the true Golden Era of British football, this is a story of Britain at it's cultural peak.

Luca Caioli's latest biography of Neymar, revised and now at a new, improved price.

A treatise on how Christian moral theology can make a distinctive and valuable contribution to the debate over the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport.

"In Ways of Grace he reflects on his experiences and explores those of other sports stars and public figures who have not only overcome adversity, but have used them to unite rather than divide"--Amazon.

Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2017
'A man's eye is accommodative, like his heart.'
Samuel Browne's wife has left him suddenly after three years of marriage. She invites him to 'go and live a better life without me'. He must start again, and alone.
And so it is that Sam finds himself deep in ...

Luis Ocana seemed doomed to live in the shadow of cycling's greatest ever rider, Eddy Merckx - 'The Cannibal'. Their rivalry defined Ocana's entire career, yet he was the one rider capable of beating the all-conquering Merckx in his prime. After an impoverished upbringing he flourished at the sport he ...

How to Run is the perfect guide for anyone who wants to test themselves in the punishing physical activity of running 26.2 - or 13.1 - miles (42 or 21 kilometres). Filled with photographs and illustrations complementing the text, How to Run will make you a better and fitter athlete and make running even more fun.

FOOTBALL'S BIGGEST CHARACTERS TELL IT LIKE IT IS

Who is the Secret Footballer? Not if the Secret Footballer has anything to do with it.' Loaded

**From the bestselling author of I am the Secret Footballer and The Secret Footballer's Guide to the Modern Game.**

Wisden was first published in 1864, the same year that William Gilbert Grace, then aged 16, made his debut in first-class cricket. The great man made his first appearance in the 1865 edition and two years later Wisden reported his 224 not out against Surrey at The Oval. From then on, W.G. was the main ...

It was the upset to end all upsets. On 8 April 1967 at Aintree racecourse in Liverpool, a 100-1 outsider in peculiar blinkers sidestepped chaos extraordinary even by the Grand National's standards and won the world's toughest steeplechase.

The jumps-racing establishment - and Gregory Peck, the Hollywood ...

Freddie Flintoff and W.G. Grace: together at last! W.G. Grace Ate My Pedalo is a spoof 1896 periodical from The Wisden Cricketer archives that looks at cricketing events of 2010 through a Victorian lens. Funny, irreverent and lavishly illustrated, this is the most original cricket book of the last 114 years.

Each of these three books contains 50 exciting PE challenges. They are aimed at busy primary school teachers, who are required to teach PE, but don't have much knowledge of the subject. Each book contains a variety of individual, group and whole class activities, designed to develop skills, foster enjoyment ...

Rock climbing is one of today's most popular 'extreme sports.' Although many women are involved, the sport retains a particularly male image and culture. This book presents a study of rock climbing in the UK, analysing what it reveals about the contemporary construction and performance of masculinity through sport.