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Farewell to SportBy Paul Gallico For fourteen years during the golden age of sports, Paul Gallico was one of America's ace sportswriters. He saw them all--the stars and the hams, the… |
£11.99(Paperback) |
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The Way It WasFor the past 8 years Stephen Chalke has been writing a monthly column for Wisden Cricket Monthly and The Wisden Cricketer, and he has also written for… |
£17.00(Hardback) |
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The Marvellous ManiaAlthough Alistair Cooke called golf 'a method of self-torture, disguised as a game', from the first time he swung a club at the age of fifty-five, he… |
£8.99(Paperback) |
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The Best American Sports Writing 2008In this exciting new collection, William Nack, veteran sportswriter and author of the classic Secretariat, honors the year's finest sports journalism… |
£9.99(Paperback) |
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Sports Illustrated: Going DeepBy Gary Smith Contains stories including "Shadow of a Nation", "Damned Yankee", and "Blindsided by History".
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£16.99(Hardback) |
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We Need To Talk About KevinBy Giles Smith Gary Neville's choice of wedding venue, the use of underpants in goal celebrations, whether Lee Sharpe has it in him to go all the way on Celebrity… |
£7.99(Paperback) |
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Everything They Had"Sometimes sports mirrors society, sometimes it allows us to understand the larger society a little better. But mostly, it is a world of… |
£15.99(Hardback) |
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Fathers & Sons & SportsBy Mike Lupica Ever since the first caveman picked up the first rock and tossed it to the first caveson, sports has forged a powerful link between generations of… |
£15.99(Hardback) |
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The Beautiful MachineBy Graeme Fife Graeme Fife has been riding a bike since he discovered, aged five, that escaping from home on two wheels was a lot faster and took him a lot farther… |
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The Green and Golden AgeBy Gideon Haigh Gideon Haigh's two previous collections of cricket writings, "Game for Anything" and "Silent Revolutions", have concentrated… |
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