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The Wit of Cricket
Stories from Cricket's best-loved personalities
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
A bumper collection of the funniest anecdotes, jokes and stories from cricket's best-loved personalities. Cricket is a funny old game -- even when rain stops play! Now you can read not only the most popular stories by five of the game's all-time great characters -- Richie Benaud, Dickie Bird, Henry...
Second Innings
My Sporting Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Fast bowler, six-hitter, popular hero, one of the lads, king of the jungle - Andrew Flintoff is all of those things.
Second Innings, is his searingly honest yet uplifting autobiography, Flintoff reveals unseen, surprising sides to his career and personality.
The restless need to push and challenge...
Over But Not Out
The heart of the game and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The story of a lifetime at the very centre of international cricket, from the most respected TV commentator in the game.
Few people understand cricket as well as Richie Benaud. For sixty years, as player and commentator, he has set the standards for others to follow and has witnessed all the...
White Cap and Bails
Adventures of a much loved Umpire
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
In this anecdotal book, the unstoppable Dickie Bird takes one County Cricket Club at a time and revisits each with the aid of memorabilia, statistics, books and videos. A mass of new hilarious stories flow from Dickie as he flexes his memory: he describes the cricketers, the matches and the character...
Dickie Bird Autobiography
An honest and frank story
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Dickie Bird's retirement was an international event shown on TV screens and newspapers throughout the world. He is a household name, an eccentric, and one of the most loved and respected characters in world cricket. His idiosyncratic style and infectious humour has endeared him to millions, transcending...
Andrew Flintoff: Ashes to Ashes
One Test After Another
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
'Freddie' Flintoff is perhaps the best-known cricketer in the world, and definitely the most loved in the UK. Widely considered the greatest English all-rounder since Ian Botham, bars at cricket grounds immediately empty the moment he approaches the wicket. It was victory in the 2005 Ashes series...
Remembering Richie
A Tribute to a Cricket Legend
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
A tribute to Richie Benaud and a celebration of his life.
Remembering Richie is a compilation of the very best writing from Richie's books, along with the best tributes and obituaries from those who knew and worked with him.
As a player, Richie was one of the greatest of cricket's all-rounders....
Bringing Home the Ashes
Winning with England
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Fully updated to include England's series victory over South Africa and the World T20 Finals.
Joe Root is undoubtedly cricket's next superstar, adored by fans and the press alike for his incredible talent and his cheeky personality. At just 24 years old he has already scored nearly 3,000 Test...
by Tim Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
Great Marathon Running is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to how to train for and successfully complete a marathon. Whatever the aim - whether to be quick, raise money or just finish - in just 96 pages readers will discover the essential training points and how to go from complete starter to...
Michael Vaughan: Time to Declare - My Autobiography
An honest account from one of cricket's most influential players
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Michael Vaughan tells the full, compelling story of a remarkable career - from his early days at Yorkshire, to his emergence as a world-class batsman; from the successful partnership with Duncan Fletcher that culminated in the raising of the urn at The Oval in 2005, to the recurring injuries that...
Vendetta
The Mafia, Judge Falcone and the Quest for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
On 23 May 1992 the Mafia assassinated its 'Number One Enemy', the legendary prosecutor Judge Falcone, with a motorway bomb that also killed his wife Francesca and three bodyguards. Fifty-seven days later, the Mafia killed Falcone's friend and colleague, Judge Paolo Borsellino, with a car bomb outside...
Andrew Strauss: Testing Times - In Pursuit of the Ashes
A Story of Endurance
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
TESTING TIMES is the 2009 Ashes-winning captain's personal account of a remarkable two-year period in world cricket. When Strauss went out for his second innings in the Napier Test of March 2008, everyone thought -- including the man himself -- he was one false stroke from the end of his England career....
Alastair Cook: Starting Out - My Story So Far
The early career of England's highest scoring batsman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Alastair Cook forced his way into the record books in 2006, becoming one of the few England players to score a hundred on debut. By going on to become the only Englishman to hit seven Test centuries before his twenty-third birthday, Alastair found himself in the company of the greatest players in...
Calling the Shots
A journey of leadership
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
CALLING THE SHOTS covers the two year period from the time Michael Vaughan took over as England captain. This book concentrates on leadership, with Michael describing his approach to captaincy, his aims and thoughts about the various Test series, as well as his decision making and man management strategies....