Mainstream Publishing: 404 books
My Sporting Heroes
His 50 Greatest from Britain and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
In My Sporting Heroes, one of the country's great sportsmen, Sir Ian Botham, draws up his template of what he believes makes a true sporting hero.
Botham singles out the ten qualities he believes are the basic elements in any true sportsperson - bravery, passion, composure, determination, skill,...
by Jeff Connor
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
From the heights of the Grand Slams to a near whitewash in the 2000 Six Nations championship, one factor has remained constant in Scottish rugby - its huge resource of characters.
Early in the year 2000, Jeff Connor set out on a mission to track down some of Scotland's best-known players, the...
Nobody Beats Us
The Inside Story of the 1970s Wales Rugby Team
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In the 1970s, an age long before World Cups, rugby union to the British public meant Bill McLaren, rude songs and, most of all, Wales. Between 1969 and 1979, the men in red shirts won or shared eight Five Nations Championships, including three Grand Slams and six Triple Crowns. But the mere facts...
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Rise and Fall of Pontypool RFC
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
What made Pontypool such a great seam of talent for the Welsh national team? Why were they hated and feared in equal measure by other clubs in Wales and across the Severn? What made Ray Prosser a coach ahead of his time?
In this engrossing book, Alun Carter and Nick Bishop recount the dramatic...
Still Talking Blue
A Collection of Candid Interviews with Everton Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Do you still curse yourself over the day you met your hero; when instead of asking him the one question that's been nagging you for years, you couldn't utter a word because you were suddenly (and uncharacteristically) struck dumb? Well, curse no more. Still Talking Blue is a unique collection of interviews...
by John Scally
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Bursting with humour and full of amusing anecdotes, 100 Irish Rugby Greats is a unique celebration of the most significant stars of the sport from the 1930s to the present day. A veritable who’s who of Irish rugby, it takes in all of the true greats, including Jack Kyle, Tony O’Reilly, Mike Gibson,...
Botham's Book of the Ashes
A Lifetime Love Affair with Cricket's Greatest Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Sir Ian Botham and the Ashes are as closely intertwined as willow and leather or Merv Hughes and his moustache. You simply cannot think of one without the other. In this book, Sir Ian takes you on a ride through a lifetime's relationship with cricket's oldest and most treasured prize, revealing just...
Give Me A Ring
The Autobiography of Star Referee Mickey Vann
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Micky Vann is one of the world's top boxing referees. He has been involved in more than 350 championship fights, over 100 of which were world title fights. Outspoken and brutally honest, his hard-hitting views have often found him at the centre of controversy. The biggest night of his career - the...
Wayne Barker: Born to Fight
The Extraordinary Story of a Bare-Knuckle Boxer
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
From Salford to St Louis, former professional boxer Wayne Barker fought every man who ever challenged him. In this brutally honest account of his eventful life, Wayne recounts how his parents left him in the care of the travelling community, where he learned to fight and journeyed throughout Britain...
Battling Jack Turpin
You Gotta Fight Back
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Now in his 80th year, 'Battling' Jack Turpin is the last surviving member of his generation of Britain's best-known and best-loved boxing family.
Jack's father, Lionel Turpin, came from British Guiana to volunteer for the British Army during the Great War. He was wounded on the battlefields...
Young Blood
The Inside Story of How Street Gangs Hijacked Britain's Biggest Drugs Cartel
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
'The young bloods did not care whether they killed criminals or civilians . . .’
The Cartel is Britain’s biggest drugs gang, a global corporation employing thousands of criminals and flooding Britain with cocaine and heroin. Yet the established order is under threat: street gangs are overwhelming...
Shane Warne's Century
My Top 100 Test Cricketers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
With a flamboyant approach to the game on and off the pitch, Australia's greatest bowler Shane Warne is an irresistible cricketing force. In Shane Warne's Century, he candidly profiles 100 players from every Test nation who have had the most significant impact on his cricketing life.
Warne...
Darragh
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
For 16 years, Darragh Ó Sé wore the number 8 jersey for Gaelic football's most celebrated county, stoking the fires in Kerry's engine room. With six All Ireland medals, he is the most decorated footballer of the modern era.
Darragh's name is synonymous with his county's unrelenting appetite...
Jock Stein
The Celtic Years
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
'I am proud to say that I knew Jock Stein as a football manager, as a colleague and as a friend . . . he was the greatest manager in British football . . . men like Jock will live forever in the memory' - Sir Alex Ferguson
During his long reign at Celtic, Jock Stein was a legendary figure in...