Mainstream Publishing: 404 books
Lions of Ireland
A Celebration of Irish Rugby Legends
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Look for a Lions legend and the chances are you will find an Irishman. Throughout the touring team's history, the heroes of Irish rugby have been at the heart of the Lions' finest hours - on and off the pitch.
Look at the Lions record books and you will find Irishmen at the top of almost every...
Snooker's World Champions
Masters of the Baize
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
The top snooker players in the world compete for several trophies every year, but one carries more prestige than all the others put together - the World Championship. No other tournament in the sport carries with it so much history, so many golden moments of spectacular success and dramatic failure.
Meticulously...
Hedley Verity
Portrait of a Cricketer
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The name of Hedley Verity, the master bowler of unyielding menace, is one to be cherished more than 50 years after his death. Allan Hill tells the story of a magnificent sporting obsession in this reissue of the first full-length biography of a revered cricketer. Verity headed the English first-class...
The Boss
The Life and Times of Horseracing Legend Gordon W. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The sudden death of Gordon W. Richards in late September 1998 brought a premature end to a legendary training career which had seen him rise from obscurity to national fame as master of his profession.
Consigned to racing's scrap-heap with a broken back at the age of 29, he scraped a living...
The Captains' Tales
Battle for the Ashes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
No one feels the heat of an Ashes battle more than the captains of England and Australia. The weight of national expectation, and more than 120 years of history, is on their shoulders from the moment they walk out to toss a coin and start a Test match that is like no other.
The Captains' Tales...
Blue Moon
The Modern Football Classic of a Season Down Among the Dead Men
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
Blue Moon traces a season in the life of Manchester City. Not just any season, but 1998-99, when the once-proud club, with two League Championships and four FA Cup wins to its name - not to mention a phenomenal fan base - was forced to battle the likes of Macclesfield Town, Colchester United and Wigan...
Essex Boys
A Terrifying Expose Of The British Drugs Scene
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
ESSEX BOYS is the brand new edition of the shocking bestseller known as SO THIS IS ECSTASY?. It is the true story of the rise of one of the most violent and successful criminal gangs of the 90's whose reign of terror was finally terminated when the three leaders were brutally murdered in their Range...
Voices from Croke Park
The Stories of 12 GAA Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Voices from Croke Park charts the journeys of 12 true greats of the Gaelic games, each of whom has helped shape the rich history of football and hurling. These are men who pursued glory in Ireland's greatest sporting arena, players whose passion and vision were embodied in their performances in their...
The Naughty Nineties
Football's Coming Home
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Football has reinvented itself. As television money has poured into the game, the traditional working-class fans have poured out - not by choice, but by economic necessity. According to those in charge of the game the football hooligan has at last been eliminated from the landscape. But how true is...
by Professor Phil Scraton
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This is the definitive, unique account of the disaster in which 96 men, women and children were killed, hundreds injured and thousands traumatised. It details the appalling treatment endured by the bereaved and survivors in the immediate aftermath, the inhumanity of the identification process and...
Arrivederci Swansea
The Giorgio Chinaglia Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
As a young striker with Third Division club Swansea Town in the ’60s, Giorgio Chinaglia stole milk bottles from the doorsteps of local terraced houses because he couldn’t afford breakfast. Nine years later, as Lazio’s star centre-forward, Chinaglia owned apartments in Rome, a villa, a tennis...
100 GAA Greats
From Christy Ring to Joe Canning
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In 100 GAA Greats, John Scally celebrates the most significant players Gaelic games have brought us in their 125-year history. He selects those footballers, hurlers, managers and camogie players who have lit up Irish sport, becoming national treasures in the process, and highlights their remarkable...
Triumph and Tragedy
Welsh Sporting Legends
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
This collection of revealing profiles captures the essence of a galaxy of Welsh world-beaters from across the sporting spectrum: athletics, boxing, cricket, football, golf, horse racing, motor racing, rugby union, rugby league and tennis.
Those featured include arguably the best Welsh rugby...
Penthouse and Pavement
How to Survive in Football Without Sucking Up to the Old Firm
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Penthouse and Pavement is not a book for glory-hunters. It is a book about pain. It's about the anguish of watching your team lose 9-2 in the very first game you ever saw, about the horrible inevitability of defeat that so many feel so often. It's about despair, dismay and black, frightening, deathly...