Aurum Press: 240 books
The Eagle of Toledo
The Life and Times of Federico Bahamontes
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Federico Martí n Bahamontes, the Eagle of Toledo, is rated by many as the greatest climber in cycling history. The first Spaniard to win the Tour de France and a six-time champion of the race’ s gruelling King of the Mountains classification, he became a national hero in a Spain struggling to...
The Unforgiven
The Story of Don Revie’s Leeds United
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In 1961, when Don Revie became manager of Leeds United, they were a struggling Second Division club. By 1974 they had won two League Championships, the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (twice), the FA Cup and the League Cup; players like Jack Charlton and Billy Bremner were household names.
Yet this...
The Real McCaw
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Richie McCaw, Rugby World Cup winning captain and the New Zealand All Black's most capped player of all time, is unquestionably the greatest player of his generation and arguably the most talented player of all time. In this bestselling autobiography, he talks with brutal honesty about the roots of...
The Pyjama Game
A Journey into Judo
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
It is a sport of balletic beauty and extraordinary violence. Where else are you allowed to strangle an opponent unconscious? But while its aim is to inflict symbolic death, judo is a form of combat which also rigorously insists on the most formal courtesies.
When Mark Law joined his local judo...
Douglas Haig
From the Somme to Victory
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
‘Well written and persuasive …objective and well-rounded….this scholarly rehabilitation should be the standard biography’, Andrew Roberts, Mail on Sunday ‘A true judgment of him must lie somewhere between hero and zero, and in this detailed biography Gary Sheffield shows himself well qualified...
Fred Trueman
The Authorised Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Fred Trueman was so much more than a cricketing legend.
‘ The greatest living Yorkshireman’ according to Prime Minister Harold Wilson, he couldn’ t help excelling at everything he did, whether it was as a hostile fast bowler for Yorkshire and England, and the first man to take 300 Test...
Joe Fagan
The Authorised Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
On 30th May 1984 Joe Fagan made football history – he became the first English manager to win the Treble. After just one season as coach he had led Liverpool to victory in the League Cup, the League Championship and finally the European Cup, beating AS Roma on home soil after a gripping penalty...
Old Big 'Ead
The Wit & Wisdom of Brian Clough
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
He’ s British football’ s philosopher manqué . The most successful England manager we never had and a genuine footballing legend. To many, an outspoken working class hero. To others – mainly his targets – he was a bolshy northern gobshite. Never less than opinionated, often controversial...
The Red & The White
A History of England vs Wales Rugby
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
In every Five Nations – and now Six Nations – season the real showdown is always that between England and Wales: Wales with its history of playing the finest rugby of all the home nations, England with its enviable strength in depth and forward muscle. Whether in the vast bowl of Twickenham or...
The Telegraph Book of Champions
An Anthology of the Greats Throughout the Sporting Year
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
**How do you achieve sporting immortality? **
How do you develop a winning mentality?
What seprates the best from the rest?
While sporting greatness is for the few, there is much that the rest of us can learn from them. From the era-defining brilliance of Muhammad Ali to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2012
A man, a bike and the open road. What could be simpler? Certainly not the Tour de France, the annual travelling circus which for more than a century has been the ultimate test of sporting endurance.There’ s been pain. There’ s been joy. There’ s been death. There’ s been derring-do of mythic...
Chasing the Rainbow
The story of road cycling's World Championships
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
For the first time, Chasing the Rainbow tells the history of both the men’s and women’s road cycling’s World Championships.
Chasing the Rainbow recounts the famous routes, momentous victories and the characters, climbs, and of course, the riders behind the infamous pursuit for one of...
Flying Stumps and Metal Bats
Cricket's Greatest Moments by the People Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2010
Since 2003 the Wisden Cricketer has run a monthly feature called ‘ Eyewitness’ . Each article takes a seminal moment in the history of cricket and invites the key protagonists to reminisce about it, relive it and reflect. Now for the first time the very best of ‘ Eyewitness’ has been collected...
Ivan Lendl- The Man Who Made Murray
The Man Who Made Murray
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
When Andy Murray broke the news in March 2014 that he was parting company with Ivan Lendl it caused shock waves across the world. In just over two years Lendl had turned Murray from a perennial runner-up into the most successful British tennis player since Fred Perry - a winner of the US Open, Olympic...