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Danny Blanchflower

A Biography

by Dave Bowler
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013

The biography of Danny Blanchflower In these days of player' agents, corporate hospitality, share options and television bonuses, it's often the football, the glory and the romance of the game, that gets overlooked. Back in the 1950s and 1960s there was no footballer in love with his...
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Winning Isn't Everything

A Biography of Sir Alf Ramsey

by Dave Bowler
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013

A biography of world cup winning football manager Sir Alf Ramsey England has never had a more successful national coach than Sir Alf Ramsey. A cultured full-back with Tottenham's push and run stylists, he turned to management once his international career had been cut short by Puskas' rampant...
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Pippa Funnell

The Autobiography

by Pippa Funnell
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012

Pippa Funnell is the golden girl of the British equestrian scene - but it hasn't always been so. She seemed doomed to be a 'misser' in the really big competitions, lacking that special ingredient that makes a true champion. Everything began to change for her in 1999 when her results, including her...
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Louis

My Story So Far

by Louis Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013

In 2008, Louis Smith was the first Briton in over 100 years to win an Olympic medal in individual gymnastics. In 2012 he followed up that triumph with two more. Since then, Louis has been crowned the winner of STRICTLY COME DANCING with his partner Flavia and he is now setting his sights on designing...
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by Mary King
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009

A no-holds-barred story of what it takes to reach the top, and stay there, in the world's most dangerous sport - three day eventing. At the age of forty-seven Mary King won a Team Bronze at the Beijing Olympics. In the two 'Cavaliers' - 'Call Again Cavalier' and 'Imperial Cavalier' - she has...
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by Paul Nicholls
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2009

The revealing and honest autobiography of Britain's leading National Hunt trainer. Paul Nicholls is the former jockey who began training in 1991. Gradually he built up a reputation as one of the most astute and successful trainers in the business, with a special knack for getting it right on...
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by A.P. McCoy
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011

The fully updated autobiography of Tony 'A.P.' McCoy, Grand National and BBC SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR winner and unquestionably the greatest jump jockey ever. Tony 'A.P.' McCoy is without doubt the greatest and most successful jump jockey of all time. He has collected a record 16 consecutive...
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by A.P. McCoy
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013

'Fast paced and unbeatable.' The Lady Duncan Claymore could have it all. He's one of the country's up and coming young jockeys and this season his sights are set on getting right to the top, but his demons threaten to overwhelm him. Duncan was taught everything he knows by his father,...
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by A.P. McCoy
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016

MURDER, RIVALRY AND REVENGE... 'Fast paced and unbeatable.' The Lady Everything seems to be going right for brilliant young jockey Duncan Claymore. A career on the up, a beautiful wife, and all the trappings of wealth. But Duncan is haunted by the death of one of his arch-rivals. He...
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by Nicky Pellegrino
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009

Two feuding families, two love stories - and a lot of delicious Italian food. Pieta Martinelli's sister is getting married. Since she is a bridal designer it falls to her to make the wedding gown. But Pieta is distracted by a series of unanswered questions. Why is her father feuding with another...
Cover of Summer at the Villa Rosa
by Nicky Pellegrino
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011

Raffaella Moretti, by far the most beautiful girl in the southern Italian town of Triento, is about to marry the only boy she has ever loved. It seems that nothing but happiness lies in store for her. Yet, just one year later, she is a widow, and has taken a job as housekeeper in the Villa Rosa, working...
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by Nicky Pellegrino
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010

Escape to Italy with this sumptuous story of secrets and friendships under Mediterranean skies. A recipe for life should be a simple thing: love and happiness, family, friends and a little food. But life is rarely straightforward... Alice wants to make the most of life - after all, she...
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by Ronald Knox
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012

When four friends stumble across the body of a fellow club member during a game of golf they suspect murder. The police aren't so sure, and when it looks as though the official verdict will be suicide the men are outraged. Convinced that there had been 'dirty work' and that 'the police aren't very...
Cover of In Whose Dim Shadow
by J. J. Connington
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014

In this, the tenth Clinton Driffield mystery, the action moves away from a country setting to the English suburbs, inhabited by a cast of unusual diversity: an ambitious young policeman, a naive journalist, an elderly clerk with dreams of foreign travel and an unhappily married Frenchwoman. This...
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