Jmd Media: 185 books

A review of Julio Arca, a cult hero of Sunderland afc by Rob Mason, author of the clubs Complete Record.One of ten individual player reviews from Rob Mason's 'Sunderland afc Cult Heroes'.

The noughties were a totally unique decade in the history of East Londons premier Football League team. In all of our 130 year life, never before had we been able to last a 10 year period when the two words financial crisis were not mentioned at the club. Its fair to say that Bazza Hearn had introduced...

BURNLEY achieved the seemingly impossible in 2009, promotion to the Premier League. Fast forward two years, and the club find themselves back in the Championship, amongst the backdrop of diminishing parachute payments, and the incoming UEFA financial fair play rules (FFP).Turf Moor Monthly captures...

A review of L.R. Roose, a cult hero of Sunderland afc by Rob Mason, author of the clubs Complete Record.One of ten individual player reviews from Rob Mason's 'Sunderland afc Cult Heroes'.

Lancashire is rich in its folklore, and its history is dominated by the Pendle Witches and by the hunting and killing of catholic recusants in the Tudor period. Unexplained hauntings and disturbances across the county often relate to these turbulent years of British history, and Stephen Wade includes...

Brian Cloughs family are among the many people who describe their personal memories of the charismatic football manager in this unique collection of tributes. Brians widow, Barbara, and their daughter Elizabeth have provided a rare insight into life with the man known as the Master Manager. Barbara...

PART 1 of James Scoltock's diary following Norwich City in the Premier League. There seems to be few books dedicated to Norwich, even though its the highest achieving club in Norfolk. It looks at the 2011/12 season on and off the field, from the jubilation of promotion from the Championship...

North American Ultrarunning: A History explores the rich heritage of ultradistance running stretching back thousands of years; the Americas were originally peopled by nomads on foot. The book documents ultradistance feats by Native Americans, the earliest European explorers and settlers, before recording...

This is a book that captures the horrors of World War II as witnessed by a young RAF bomber pilot. "On A Wing and a Prayer" takes you through the authors upbringing in Aberdeen as well as raid by raid through his tour of duty. This book takes you through the author's upbringing in pre-war Aberdeen...

Ralph Coney was an engineer with Cunard before becoming a lecturer with the department of Marine Engineering at the Southampton Technical College. During the ensuing 27 years he saw the College become the Southampton Institute of Higher Education. For 14 years of this period he was the resident Warden...

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, London Mayor Boris Johnson memorably said of London 2012 that 'Ping-Pong is coming home'. In fact, he might justifiably have said that 'the modern Olympic movement is coming home'. In 1850, Shropshire doctor William Penny Brookes began Olympian Games for the moral, physical...

John Lyall was one of the most successful managers in English football in the 1980s. The former West Ham full-back, forced out of the game by a horrific knee injury at the age of 23, showed immense courage and determination to transform himself into a top coach.In this fascinating insight into English...

Pride and Passion in Bury tells the story of my life growing up in a great little town at a great time.Beginning with life as one of a family of ten, living on a large council estate, the friendships formed, and the many comical events that occurred that still tickle me.Being approached by Manchester...

Arnaud Baubil and Sarah Robinson lived and worked in Tajikistan between 2002 and 2006, and travelled extensively in the region; this is a narrative of their trip into the Wakhan corridor, a remote part of Afghanistan bordering Tajikistan, Pakistan and China.