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A fascinating biography of an English country gentleman and cricketer who becomes a devoted missionary.

This antiquarian volume contains an accessible and novice-friendly guide to mastering a variety of different strokes in billiards.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

This book paints a detailed picture of Sussex village life by following its various characters over the course of a day that centres around a local cricket match.

This antiquarian book contains a detailed guide to mastering the 'spot stroke' in billiards.

This vintage book contains a collection of instructional articles on the game of billiards, written by experts and professional players.

This vintage book contains an interesting and detailed treatise on the history of billiards.

Tales of golfing stars and memorable moments from Ireland's best-loved golf correspondent.

As a teenager in Nottingham, Tom Cox was possessed.

In 1960 the West Indies arrive in Australia and Michael, who is sixteen, is enthralled.

'Without football, we were strangers under a shared roof.

This is a book about football.

'To say "e;the best cricket book ever written"e; is piffingly inadequate praise' Guardian'Great claims have been made for [Beyond a Boundary] since its first appearance in 1963: that it is the greatest sports book ever written; that it brings the outsider a privileged insight into West Indian culture; that it is a severe examination of the colonial condition.

What I Love About Cricket is the story of a summer when a 'master' cricket obsessive teaches his novice 'pupil' the wisdom of the game.

The Lives Less Ordinary series brings you the most exciting, adventurous and entertaining true-life writing that is out there, for men who are time-poor but want the best.

The Official History of the FIFA Women's World Cup is the definitive, authorised account of the world's biggest women's football tournament.

Jimmy Connors took the tennis world by storm like no player in the history of the game.

In 1999, England slumped to a new low in their tumultuous cricket history.

The great C L R James once asked: 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?

They are the masters of deception, the jokers in the pack; illusionists conjuring wickets out of thin air with nothing more than an ambled approach and a wonky grip.

WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA poignant and moving account of the author s search for the man his father was and the life he led as a well-known footballer, blending the personal and the historical into an unforgettable story Stewart Imlach was an ordinary neighbourhood soccer star of his time.

Immaculate footballer.

Because of its island status, the British shoreline enjoys more traditional coastal golf courses than anywhere in world.

No player has been more synonymous with the glory years of Manchester United Football Club over the past two decades than right-back Gary Neville.

When the name of Theo Walcott was included in the England squad for the 2006 World Cup, shock waves ran through the football world.

The greatest football quotations collection ever, now in its ninth edition.

A fat boy with a passion for sweets and a loathing for games, the young Michael Simkins finds in cricket a sport where size doesn't necessarily matter and a full-blown obsession is born.

In the state of Texas American football is a religion.

Described by the media as 'the David Beckham of cricket', Kevin has become the poster boy for English cricket.

George Best needs little introduction.

Luke is fed up.

'We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football.

'This could well be the best book ever written about football' Time OutThe memoir behind the documentary One Night in Turin, the inside story of a World Cup that changed our footballing nation forever.

___________________________THE BESTSELLING ACCOUNT OF FOOTBALL VIOLENCEWelcome to the world of football thuggery.

Never before has the whole world of cricket been collected in one, really quite large volume.

Cricket defines Englishness like no other national pastime.

"e;Footeballe is nothinge but beastlie furie and extreme violence"e;, wrote Thomas Elyot in 1531.

Football is at the heart of British culture yet never has it been in greater turmoil.

'If David Lloyd-George was the most charismatic person I ever laid eyes on, Matt Busby was the most charismatic I have known, when he was the manager of Manchester United and I was a reporter travelling with the team.

FOREWORD BY SIR ALEX FERGUSON Joe Royle became the youngest player to play for Everton in February 1966 and went on to win six caps under Alf Ramsey and Don Revie.

The Premiership in Focus celebrates 15 years that have changed the face of football.

Now the subject of a major film.

In The League Doesn t Lie, the 606 team have selected the most debatable topics from the world of football, from best manager to most memorable penalty, and worst haircut ever to the ultimate England team.

This is a book about heroism - of sorts.

The extraordinary and heartbreaking memoir from one of football's greatest playersPaul McGrath is Ireland's best loved sportsman and also its least understood.

In 2006, Liverpool fans voted Ian Rush among the top three all-time greatest players in the history of the club.

WISDEN'S THE LAWS OF CRICKET sets out in full the text of the new laws of cricket, 42 in number (with permission of the MCC which own the copyright in them).

Which football trophy has three handles?

'We spent all our time surrounded by police cordons and barbed wire, never mind having our bus hijacked.

Of all of the many illustrious champions in tennis, there are few whose names are as synonymous with Wimbledon as Boris Becker, who, in 2015, celebrates the 30th anniversary of his remarkable entry into the sport's pantheon of greats.