In nearly 25 years as a sports journalist for the Independent, Daily Telegraph, and The Sunday Times, Martin Johnson has covered sporting events all over the world, including cricket and tennis in Australia, golf in America, Formula One in Kuala Lumpur, boxing in Cairo, petanque in Gran Canaria, beach volleyball in Brazil, Olympics in Sydney, football in China, and rugby in South Africa.
Having spent 10 years scaling the lower echelons of the sport, the time has come for one of Britain's least successful athletes to reveal all about how he got involved in all this nonsense in the first place.
The compelling, little-known story of golfer Charlie Sifford and attorney Stanley Mosk who together made history by taking on the PGA and their Caucasians Only by-law.
Captures the bold, engaging spirit of one of Britain's best-loved sporting heroes Sunday TimesAfascinating readand sure to be thedefinitive accountof his life Mark KnopflerSHORTLISTED FOR THE SPORTS WRITING BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDEven in the midst of a global pandemic, the death of Stirling Moss on 12 April 2020 at the age of 90 made headlines, almost 60 years after he retired from Formula One.
Brilliant Paul Newman, Daily MailSHORTLISTED FOR THE BEST SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEARIn How Not to be a Cricketer, former England international and TV personality Phil Tufnell highlights the many potential pitfalls of a professional cricket career, and provides a hilarious insight into how to avoid them and what happens when, like him, you dont.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2020The definitive biography of a racing driver who won three World Championship titles Matt Dickinson, The Times, Sports Books of the YearThoroughly gripping.
When Ole Gunnar Solskjaer returned to Old Trafford as caretaker manager midway through the 2018-19 season, he breathed new life into a team that was drifting.
Packed with groundbreaking, behind-the-scenes details, this major biography of Tiger Woods tells the explosive full story behind the rise, fall and rise again of a global icon.
THESPORTS BOOK AWARDS INTERNATIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEARKieren Fallon was one of the world's greatest jockeys, but his career was littered with controversial incidents.
***Donald McRaes new bookThe Last Bellis published on 13th March 2025***One of the most captivating boxing writers on the planetBarry McGuiganAsuperb tale .
Greg Rutherford is one of the most successful British athletes of all time, winning gold at European, Commonwealth, World and Olympic levels, an achievement matched by only four others: Linford Christie, Jonathan Edwards, Sally Gunnell and Daley Thompson.
A must-haveinsight into theawe-inspiringcareer of a true motor racing great Daily Express Total Competition is the most compelling, comprehensive and revealing insight into what it takes to get to the top in Formula One that has ever been published.
Even by boxings standards, Curtis Woodhouses story istruly remarkable Ricky Hatton Asbrutally honestas it is gripping, amusing and illuminating Donald McRae Apulsating page-turnerof a bookMail on Sunday The football world is filled with stories of talented young footballers who have thrown it all away before drifting into obscurity.
THE CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARDS AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR ASUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Brilliant,gripping, beautifully written, real, says Jonathan Northcroft.
';The year'sbest cricket book' Daily Telegraph';Well researched andengagingly written, thisexemplary workreveals a hidden historysuperbly told story'Sunday Times';Easily thecricket book of the year, of the centuryIt extends the possibility of cricket-writing-as-literature' Suresh Menon, The Hindu It is arguably the most famous photograph in the history of cricket.
Wonderfully entertainingMail on Sunday';Profoundly importantGuardian Graeme Fowler - former England cricketer, happy-go-lucky joker and inspirational coach - was 47 whendepression struck.
When Trevor Brooking was still at school, the Essex-born teenager was one of the most eagerly pursued prospects in London, but he chose to go to West Ham United - the only club that was prepared to allow him to complete his studies - and so began a lifelong attachment to the Upton Park outfit.
In the summer of 2012, Clarke Carlisle, after 15 years as a professional footballer, was without a contract and wondering if he still had a future in the game.
The day had gone badly: Celtic had just lost to their Old Firm rivals Rangers in the 1999 Scottish Cup final, and now Alan Stubbs had to provide a sample for a random drugs test.
Professional tennis player Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario may lack the power and pace of her opponents, but anyone who claims she lacks a weapon is clearly overlooking her heart.
The years after World War I saw a different sort of war in the American South, as Modernism began to contest the "e;New South Creed"e; for the allegiance of Southern intellectuals.
During the 1920s a new generation of American sociologists tried to make their discipline more objective by adopting the methodology of the natural sciences.
