Searching for Novak: Unveiling the man behind the enigma by Mark Hodgkinson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Delve inside the mind of the greatest tennis player of all time. No man or woman has won more Grand Slam singles titles than Novak Djokovic, who took his 24th major at the 2023 US Open. Based on fresh interviews with people close to Djokovic - including his friends and mentors, along with his former coa ...Show more
The Knockout by Andy Clarke
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sport
Swift, brutal and utterly final: with knockouts, there are no grey areas; a KO is a KO. But what actually is a knockout, and why are we so fascinated by it?
Shaq Uncut: My Story by Shaquille O'Neal
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Shaquille 'Shaq' O'Neal is a four time NBA champion and a three time NBA Finals MVP. After being an All-American at Lousiana State University, he was the number one draft pick by the NBA in 1992. Today in 2011, he's still playing - in fact, at 38, Shaq is the oldest player in the NBA. His presence - bot ...Show more
Unveiling Jazbaa - A History of Pakistan Women's Cricket by Aayush Puthran; Kamila Shamsie (Foreword by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Cricket Book of the Year 2023Jazbaa - Definition: spirit, feeling, passion, desire, sentiment, emotionIn 1996, Shaiza Khan led a Pakistan team on a tour of New Zealand and Australia. While the tour was a failure on the cricketing front, the singular act of eleven women w ...Show more
The Commonwealth of Cricket by Ramachandra Guha
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sport
From one of India's finest writers, thinkers and commentators, a memoir of a love affair with cricket. As a fan, player, writer, scholar, controversialist and administrator, Ramachandra Guha has spent a life with cricket.In this book, Guha offers both a brilliantly charming memoir and a charter of the l ...Show more
Surf Like A Woman: Becoming World Champ when women weren't welcome on the waves by Pauline Menczer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
A memoir with deeply feminist themes detailing the challenging and inspiring life of Pauline Menczer, World Surfing Champion and star of the hit documentary, Girls Can't Surf. In the 80s and 90s, surf culture was toxic, especially towards women. But Pauline Menczer - a dirt-poor, chronically ill, freck ...Show more
Easy Rider Road Book - A Tour Through the Wild and Inspiring Side of Bicycle Culture by Anke Fesel (Editor); Chris Keller (Editor)
$79.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The Bicycle as a Utopia. Cycling is not just a form of locomotion. Bike culture is in constant interaction with fashion, music, design, politics and urban planning. Cycling is a way of life and a form of protest. The Easy Rider Road Book shows the wild, subversive side of cycling and the powerful bon ...Show more
Legacy by James Kerr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sport | Reading Level: very good
Go inside the notoriously secretive world of the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team to reveal 15 powerful and practical lessons for leadership and business that helped to build one of the most successful sporting clubs in history, now the subject of the Amazon Prime documentary series All or Nothing. In ...Show more
Inside Out: A Story of Sport, Family and Self by Erin Phillips
$36.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Inside Out is the inspiring memoir from one of Australia’s all-time sporting champions: AFLW icon and basketball legend Erin Phillips. ‘When I was born, people felt sorry for my dad because he didn’t have a son to play footy someday.’ The AFLW changed the face of Australian sport forever, and Erin ...Show more
Naomi Osaka by Ben Rothenberg
$36.99 AUD
Category: Sport
This deeply revealing biography of tennis phenomenon Naomi Osaka tells the story behind her grand slam-winning career and her advocacy for racial justice and mental health. Most tennis fans met the Haitian-American-Japanese player Naomi Osaka for the first time as they watched her win the 2018 US Open i ...Show more
Expected Goals - The Story of How Data Conquered Football and Changed the Game Forever by Rory Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs started to think about how you win. Data has now suffused almost every aspect of how football is played, coached, scouted and consumed. But it's not the algorithms or new metrics that have made this change ...Show more
Games People Played - A Global History of Sport by Wray Vamplew
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Now in paperback, this first global history of sports offers all spectators and participants a reason to cheer--and to think. Games People Played is, surprisingly, the first global history of sports. The book shows how sports have been practiced, experienced, and made meaningful by players and fans ...Show more