Practical Cycling: Equip, Maintain and Repair Your Bicycle by LAURENT BELANDO
Category: Sport
Here is a book that will answer (almost) all of a beginning and experienced bicyclist's questions about how to get the most out of the activity, while protecting yourself and saving money where possible. How? First there is professional advice on helmets and techniques for safe cycling: lights, reflecti ...Show more
Fifty More Places to Fly Fish Before You Die by Chris Santella
Category: Sport
"Fifty More Places To Fly Fish Before You Die" is the follow-up to Chris Santella's very first book, "Fifty Places To Fly Fish Before You Die". The first book was arguably the most commercially successful fly-fishing book released in the 2000s, and since its publication, Santella has gained a following ...Show more
Patty Mills Beyond Basketball by Boti Nagy
Category: Sport
Patty Mills is the first book exploring the Indigenous Australian athlete and trail blazer -- the first Indigenous Australian to win an NBA Championship in 2014 with the San Antonio Spurs. He continues to break records and inspire with his achievements, all of which are covered in this tribute to the ex ...Show more
The Great Race: 60 years of the Bathurst 1000 by Aaron Noonan
Category: Sport
The cars, the stars, the thrills and the spills from 60 years of the Bathurst classic by Australia's premier motorsports journalist with a foreword by five-time winner Garth Tander The Bathurst 1000 is undoubtedly Australia's 'Great Race', forever part of the sporting fabric of the nation. The 1000-kilo ...Show more
The Matilda Effect by Fiona Crawford
Category: Sport
From the journey to just play to the fight for the world cup The Matilda Effect is the exciting, inspiring, sometimes infuriating and always colourful story of the Australian women's football (soccer) team, the Matildas, and their ultimately successful struggle, alongside other women from around the wor ...Show more
Sticky Wickets: Australian Cricket’s Controversies and Curiosities by Glen Humphries
Category: Sport
A run through Aussie cricket's most controversial and memorable incidents. A series of memorable moments that changed the game and had a wider impact on society, such as the underarm bowling incident of 1981.
The Bull - David Warner: Daring to Be Different by Ken Piesse
Category: Sport
Unveiling cricket’s greatest entertainer! The first Australian cricketer to play 100 internationals across all three levels (Tests, ODIs and T20s), David Warner is a champion of his generation; fabulous but flawed. No Australian opener in history has surpassed his rapid-fire strike rate in excess of 70 ...Show more
Brilliance & Brutality: Carlton, Richmond and the 1972-73 Grand Finals by Dan Eddy
Category: Sport
Two Grand Finals, the likes of which we may never witness again. The brilliant, goal-scoring frenzy of 1972 followed by the brutality and straight-out violence of 1973. Carlton vs Richmond: a rivalry as storied and controversial as any in VFL/AFL history.
Ashes 2023: A Cricket Classic by Gideon Haigh
Category: Sport
A great cricket series, as reported by a great cricket writer. High hopes were held for the Ashes of 2023. They were exceeded in an instant classic of five Tests between a bold England and a battling Australia, finally shared two-all. Ashes 2023 captures all the drama and skill, as well as the controver ...Show more
Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant by Roland Lazenby
Category: Sport
Shortlisted for the 2017 Cross Sports Book Awards Best Biography of the Year Bryant is one of basketball's greatest-ever players, a fascinating and complicated character who says he knew when he was a boy that he would be better than Michael Jordan. Aloof and uncompromising, Bryant is the grand enigma ...Show more
Golf Courses Resorts Around the World: A guide to the most outstanding golf courses and resorts by Fallon Daniel
Category: Sport | Series: Compact Edition Ser.
From Turtle Bay on Oahu’s famous North Shore to the once royal estate of Vidago Palace Hotel near Portugal’s famous port-making Douro Valley region 'Golf Courses and Resorts around the World' is a fascinating guide to the most outstanding golf courses and resorts that are open to the public. Whether it ...Show more
Dream Golf Courses by CHRISTOPHE THOREAU
Category: Sport
In 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard used his 6-iron to tap a few golf balls on the Moon. This famous event did a lot for the image of a sport that had a reputation for being dull and conservative. Location, location, location. There are many golf courses around the world -- 35,000 or more. And the ...Show more