Sport & Sport Biography

Johnny Sexton / Becoming a Lion

 Johnny Sexton - the man who pulled the strings for the Lions - gives an intimate insight into the rugby life in Becoming a Lion.With three Heineken Cups and one British and Irish Lions tour victory...

Lawrence Donegan / Four Iron in the Soul

   In this very funny sports book (a cross between Nick Hornby and Bill Bryson) young journalist Lawrence Donegan tells the story of the summer he spent caddying for Scottish golfer Ross Drummond,...

John Scally / The GAA Immortals : 100 Gaelic Games Legends

   The lore and legend of Gaelic Games has been shaped by great players. Since the Games began, special players have had a unique power to make the heart skip a beat. Now THE GAA IMMORTALS...

Kevin Markham / Driving the Green

 Mark Twain had it all wrong: golf is not a good walk spoiled, golf is a journey. And when Ireland provides the map it becomes an 11,000km odyssey for one man in a camper van. Ireland's beauty shines...

John Wilcockson / 23 Days in July

 For twenty-three days in July 2004, an enthralled global audience watched Lance Armstrong battle to victory in the Tour de France. Armstrong had pledged to win a record-breaking sixth consecutive...

Raymond Smith - The Greatest Hurlers of our Time - PB 1990 GAA

Paperback, 1990, published by the author, one of the most prolific writers on GAA history , this sets ' the advance of the national game into the 1990's and to place in perspective the all time...

Liam Ó Tuama - Jack Lynch : Where He Sported and Played - A sporting Biography HB Illustrated GAA 2000

Published by Blackwater Press, 2000, this is a hardcover larger format book covering the entire GAA career of Jack Lynch, former Taoiseach and Cork stalwart, and winner of 6 All Ireland medals in a...

Guillem Balague / Pep Guardiola : Another Way of Winning

   'Pep' Guardiola has transformed Barcelona into arguably the greatest club side of all time, and this entertainingly perceptive biography explains how. Guardiola spent the majority of his playing...

Luca Caioli / Messi - 2013 Edition : The Inside Story of the Boy Who Became a Legend

   El Pibe de Oro. The Golden Boy. Diego Maradona's unwaning shadow looms large over world football. In 2007 the brilliant Argentine chose Lionel Messi as his successor to the famous No. 10 shirt...

Maarten Meijer / Louis van Gaal : The Biography

   So who is Louis van Gaal? An inflexible ex-PE teacher who only knows how to act like a dictator or a footballing visionary that has made him one of the greatest ever European managers?Wherever he...

Eoghan Corry / The Nation Holds Its Breath

    JACK CHARLTON; NIALL QUINN; JOHNNY GILES; GEORGE BEST; EAMON DUNPHY; LIAM BRADY; GEORGE HAMILTON; ROY KEANE; RAY HOUGHTON; PAUL MCGRATH; NORMAN WHITESIDE Ireland's soccer players may never...

Justine Kyle McGrath / Conversations with My Father: Jack Kyle

   Jack Kyle was the rugby giant of his time, but he was also so much more than a sporting legend.Whilst he was winning a Grand Slam and touring with the Lions, Jack Kyle was also studying to be a...

Ian Marshall / Class of 92

   The remarkable story of the youth team that transformed Manchester United.In the post-war era, Manchester United manager Matt Busby stated: 'If you want football's finest fruit, then you grow...

Michael Calvin / Living on the Volcano : The Secrets of Surviving as a Football Manager

   *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015*A man punches the wall in a strategic show of anger. Another complains he has become a stranger to those he loves. A third...

Chris Froome / The Climb

   WINNER OF THE 2018 GIRO D'ITALIA! THREE TIME WINNER OF THE TOUR DE FRANCE. THE FIRST MAN SINCE BERNARD HINAULT TO HOLD THE MAGLIA ROSA, THE MAILLOT JAUNE AND THE MAILLOT ROJO AT THE SAME TIME...

Andy Murray / Andy Murray: Seventy-Seven

    Andy Murray is one of Britain's best loved athletes. On the 7th July 2013 he became the first British man to lift the Wimbledon trophy for 77 years. His new book, Andy Murray: Seventy-Seven,...

Steward McKinney / Roars from the Back of the Bus : Rugby Tales of Life with the Lions

   Roars from the Back of the Bus is an absorbing, amusing and at times moving collection of tales that give a rare insight into the camaraderie that exists between players at the top of their game,...

Andre Tolme / Golfing Mongolia

    At the age of 35 Andre Tolme quit his job as a civil engineer and decided that it was time to see something of the world. It was during a brief stop-over in Mongolia that he became struck by...

Tom Humphries / Booked

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

Alex Montgomery / Martin O'Neill : The Biography

    Alex Montgomery's acclaimed biography brings O'Neill's story right up to date with an account of his first few months in charge at Aston Villa and deals with every aspect of his life and...

Gary Neville / Red: My Autobiography

   No player has been more synonymous with the glory years of Manchester United Football Club over the past two decades than right-back Gary Neville. An Old Trafford regular since he attended his...

Colm Cooper / Gooch - The Autobiography (Hardback)

 

Kieran Donaghy / What Do You Think Of That : My Autobiography (Hardback)

 

Shay Given / Shay: Any Given Saturday : The Autobiography (Hardback)

 

Darragh O Se / Darragh : My Story (Large Paperback) GAA KERRY

 

Dan Carter / Dan Carter: The Autobiography of an All Blacks Legend

   Dan Carter's last game as an All Black culminated with him declared Man of the Match following the 2015 Rugby World Cup final at Twickenham - an unforgettable ending to the career of the greatest...

John Daniell / Confessions of a Rugby Mercenary

   John Daniell is a rubgy mercenary. A brutal word for an often brutal game. In 1996, when Rugby Union turned professional, John emigrated to France where he played for a decade in top competitions...

Eoin Hand / First Hand : My Life and Irish Football (Large Paperback)

Barry Henriques - (Editor) Kilkenny GAA Yearbook, 2017 - PB Annual

208 pages, large format paperback , fully illustrated in colour throughout . the 27th edition of the yearbook edited by Barrie Henriques.  A standard county GAA yearbook, with full detauiled coverage...

William H. Gibson - Early Irish Golf : The First Courses, Clubs and Pioneers - PB 2004

This is the only history of the development of the game in Ireland in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on it's links to military units in Ireland First edition was 1988, this reprint 1989...

Ken McGrath / Ken Mcgrath : My Autobiography (Large Paperback)

 

Rio Ferdinand / Thinking Out Loud : Love, Grief and Being Mum and Dad (Large Paperback)

 

John O'Donohue / Eternal Echoes : Exploring Our Hunger to Belong (Hardback)

 

Luca Caioli / Messi - 2017 Updated Edition : More Than a Superstar

   Lionel Messi is the greatest footballer of our time: a magician with uncanny ability to beat defenders, find space and score goals. 2016 saw him win the Ballon d'Or for a record fifth time,...

Lauren St John / Seve : The Biography

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

Christy O'Connor / The Club

 This chronicle of a year in the life of St Joseph's Doora-Barefield GAA club in Co. Clare - which won the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year award for 2010 - breaks new ground in Irish...

George Best / Hard Tackles and Dirty Baths : The inside story of football's golden era

 We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others' George Best Written in the months before he died, Hard Tackles and Dirty Baths...

John Scally / Odd-Shaped Balls : Mischief-Makers Miscreants and Mad-Hatters Of Rugby

 Rugby is not a game for those who think that centres are what you find in a box of Black Magic or who confuse Jonah Lomu with Joanna Lumley. At the same time, it is not a game for the bright: what...

Chris Bonington / Ascent

 BRITAIN'S GREATEST CLIMBER.'He is the David Attenborough of mountaineering . . . Bonington's most personal memoir yet.' The Times.'This is a compelling tale of fortitude and endurance.' - The Sunday...

Nick Ward / Left For Dead

 The second edition of the Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year is updated with a new chapter describing Nick's eventual completion of the Fastnet Race thirty years after his first, ill-fated attempt...

Brian Viner / Ali Pele Lillee and Me

   Brian Viner's formative years as a sports nut coincided with what he argues was the best sporting decade of all time. The 1970s gave us the greatest football team in the history of the game...

Richard Moore / The Dirtiest Race in History : Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the 1988 Olympic 100m Final

 The 1988 Seoul Olympics played host to what has been described by some as the dirtiest race of all time, by others as the greatest. The final of the men's 100 metres at those Olympics is certainly...

Norman Dabell / How We Won the Ryder Cup : The Caddies' Stories

 Caddies tell here of the triumphs and disappointments of Ryder Cup clashes from 1985 to the present. These are the insights and behind-the-scenes stories from the bag-men who were there with the...

Ian Rush / Rush : The Autobiography

 In 2006, Liverpool fans voted Ian Rush among the top three all-time greatest players in the history of the club. Taking his place alongside Kenny Dalglish and Steven Gerrard, he surpassed football...

Robert Rigby / Goal! Two-Books-In-One

 Goal! A young Latino boy is spotted by an ex-scout, playing in a park in Los Angeles, and wins himself a trial at one of England's Premier League clubs - Newcastle United. Struggling to cope with...

Joe Calzaghe / No Ordinary Joe

 IT WAS past three o'clock in the morning when Joe Calzaghe experienced the sweetest validation of his professional life. Victory over Jeff Lacy, a 28-year-old American compared to a young Mike Tyson...

Chris Hulme / Manslaughter United : A Season with a Prison Football Team

 Manslaughter United: the story of the hardest football team in England.'People don't want to know us. They don't want to know we exist. We have all committed horrendous crimes, and they aren't going...

Ronan O'Gara / Unguarded

 Ronan O'Gara has been at the heart of Munster and Irish rugby for the past fifteen years. Now, as he comes to the end of a glittering playing career, it is time for him to reflect on those many...

John Feinstein / Open : Inside the US Open Golf Tournament

 In June 2002, the US Open was played, for the first time in history, on a true public golf course. Bethpage State Park is owned by the state of New York, and no membership is required to play there...

George Best / Scoring At Half-Time

   Michael Parkinson: 'What was the nearest to kick-off that you made love to a woman?'George Best: 'Er- I think it was half-time actually'George Best was the first celebrity footballer and to many...

Chris Bowers / Federer

 Roger Federer is not only one of the greatest tennis players ever to pick up a racket - if not the greatest - but he is one of the global icons of our time. Characterised by a mixture of passion and...

Eoghan Corry /God and the Referee: Unforgettable GAA Quotations

   In God and the Referee, Eoghan Corry takes the most memorable words written or spoken about the GAA and amasses them into a treasury of the great and the good.Grouped into twenty-five sections,...