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All for a Few Perfect Waves - David Rensin
ISBN: 0224075861
All For a Few Perfect Waves is a wonderful book. In the mysterious, magnificent and mercurial Miki Dora, David Rensin has found the perfect subject. You may like Dora. You may hate him. But you will never tire of him through the very impressive shine of Rensin's reporting and writing
-- RedbridgeCountry of origin: other
Base 66: a story of fear, fun and freefall - Jevto Dedijer
ISBN: 0595335101
Remind me not to do this at 69 or at any time!!!
-- WandsworthCountry of origin: other
Behind the curtain:travels in Eastern European football - Jonathan Wilson
ISBN: 9780752879451
This book takes football as its starting point but goes on to give the reader a much wider picture of the countries visited.
-- NewhamCountry of origin: other
ISBN: 978-022407427
"not only the most finely crafted book on cricket ever written, it is also the most penetrating study of pre-independence West Indian society"
-- HackneyCountry of origin: other
Blazing Saddles - the cruel and unusual history of the Tour de France - Matt Rendall
ISBN: 978 184 724 3
-- KingstonCountry of origin: France
Double Fault - Lionel Shriver
ISBN: 978185242490
Shriver shows her ability to dissect relationships and what lies behind ambition in this story of a tennis couple who aim to be the best both on and off the courts.
-- KingstonCountry of origin: United States
Fatty Batter: How Cricket Saved my Life( and then ruined it) - Michael Simkins
ISBN: 9780091901509
A brilliant read which is more than just about cricket.
-- KingstonCountry of origin: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9780140293449
Anyone who has ever lived with a football fan will identify with the ruling passion that shapes one man's life. It is acerbically witty but offers a deeper insight into the psyche of a sports fanatic whose passion for his football team has defined his life.
-- BromleyCountry of origin: other
The First Beautiful Game - Roman Krznaric
ISBN: 1899804139
The fascinating story of real tennis, the original "sport of kings" and the needs it met in those who played and supported the sport. The phrase "the Beautiful Game" was used by a dedicated eighteenth century player long before it was applied to football
-- MertonCountry of origin: United Kingdom
The Football Factory - John King
ISBN: 978-009947462
More gritty than Fever Pitch, we follow a football hooligan on the rampage.
-- Hammersmith and FulhamCountry of origin: other
Football my Arse - Ricky Tomlinson
ISBN: 978-075153735
-- City of LondonCountry of origin: United Kingdom
The Footballer's Wife - Kerry Katona
ISBN: 978009192324
-- KingstonCountry of origin: United Kingdom
Four Iron in the Soul - Lawrence Donegan
ISBN: 0140260145
Follow the golfing world through the eyes of a caddy
-- SouthwarkCountry of origin: United Kingdom
Grand Prix saboteurs: GP drivers who became British secret agents - Joe Saward
ISBN: 0955486807
James Bond meets Michael Schumacher. The idea of racing drivers working as secret agents is at best far-fetched but this amazing TRUE story is of how three top Grand Prix drivers from the 1920s and 1930s worked for the British secret service in occupied France, during World War II.
-- WandsworthCountry of origin: other
How triathlon ruined my life - Daren Roberts
ISBN: 1844264696
You've been warned!
-- WandsworthCountry of origin: other
Letters to my Golf Club - Dom Joly
ISBN: 9780593058770
Light reading and very entertaining, even for non golfers.
-- KingstonCountry of origin: United Kingdom
Life on the Run: coast to coast - Matt Beardshall
ISBN: 9781845492472
3 men on a charity challenge, two running,one on a bike,as well as two in a car, travel from the Cumbrian Coast to Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire.For runners and armchair runners alike. Inspiring, informative and funny - a good read
-- HarrowCountry of origin: United Kingdom
Little girls in pretty boxes: making and breaking of elite gymnasts and figure skaters - Joan Ryan
ISBN: 0704344882
Published to coincide with the Olympic Games in Atlanta (but still relevant now), an expose of the punishing training schedules, the pressure to perform, the severe and debilitating injuries and the routine, legal and even celebrated abuse of young women which, Ryan asserts, lie at the heart of international gymnastics and figure skating.
-- WandsworthCountry of origin: other
The Match - Romesh Gunesekera
ISBN: 0747579393
A book about identity and belonging acted out in the field of cricket across different countries/places.
-- HaringeyCountry of origin: United Kingdom
Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel - Giles Smith
ISBN: 978-033048189
-- City of LondonCountry of origin: United Kingdom
Moneyball : The Art of Winning an Unfair Game - Michael Lewis
ISBN: 0393324818
A quest for success in Baseball. Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland Athletic's visionary general manager Billy Beane, and a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. They are all after new insights into the game, which will give the small club the edge over the big money.
-- GreenwichCountry of origin: United States
My father and other working class football heroes - Gary Imlach
ISBN: 0224072684
The story of a brilliant footballer in the days before they were millionaire superstars. Told by his son, this is also a portrait of life at its toughest in the 1950s and 1960s
-- MertonCountry of origin: United Kingdom
Nice Jumper - Tom Cox
ISBN: 9780552770767
If you enjoyed this, why not try his latest book "Bring Me the Head of Sergio Garcia" which follows his attempts to make a living on golf's Pro-Euro Tour.
-- KingstonCountry of origin: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0224074245
Did you hate PE? Join the club or at least read this book!
-- EalingCountry of origin: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9780719563461
A classic tale of a cricketing fanatic, funny and sad in turn but those of those books that you just have to read in one sitting
-- BarnetCountry of origin: other
ISBN: 978-009192035
You don't need to be a sport lover to enjoy the humour in this book.
-- Hammersmith and FulhamCountry of origin: other
