The Penguin Book of Ashes Anecdotes 1882-2005 by Gideon Haigh
$26.95 AUD
Category: Sport
Hundreds of the best stories, from more than 260 publications, create the fullest, fieriest, and funniest account of these two nations divided by the common game of cricket. This is an account of the Ashes Series.
A Corner of a Foreign Field: the Indian history of a British sport by Ramachandra Guha
$22.00 AUD
Category: Sport
A book that seamlessly interweaves biography with history, the lives of cricketers with wider processes of social change. C. K. Nayudu and Sachin Tendulkar naturally figure in this book, but so too, in arresting and unexpected ways, do Mahatma Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The Indian careers of those ...Show more
The Ball is Round : A Global History of Football by David Goldblatt
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sport
This is a definitive history of global football.
Last Quarter: A Trilogy by FLANAGAN Martin
$24.95 AUD
Category: Sport
Martin Flanagan has been writing Australian football for 25 years. The Last Quarter brings together three of his books that sum up that period. In 1970, he re-created the grand final of that year, said to be the best of the 20th century, by talking to the players, coaches and umpire. Southern Sky, Weste ...Show more
Calcio: A History of Italian Football by John Foot
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The first history of Italian football to be written in English, 'Calcio' is a mix of serious analysis and comic storytelling, with vivid descriptions of games, goals, dives, missed penalties, riots and scandals in the richest and toughest league in the world. 'Calcio' tells the story of Italian football ...Show more
The Beautiful Machine by Graeme Fife
$32.95 AUD
Category: Sport
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 than he could go on foot. He soon allied love of what was, admittedly, quite a humble version of the beautiful machine with a tenacious grip on independenc ...Show more
Wind on the Water by Jack Finlay
$29.95 AUD
Category: Sport
Jack Finlay's timeless collection of stories celebrates a life and love of surfing. However Jack's stories encompass than just surfing, they include sailing and boating stories. Surfing has always had a lot more to it than just surfing ⦠I've always seen it as a spectrum, some part of it physica ...Show more
A Year on the Punt by John Ellicott
$29.95 AUD
Category: Sport
The first book of its kind in Australia, A Year on the Punt is the outcome of a year's journey through the remote and also mainstream country carnivals that have etched their place in our cultural history, a history that is fast disappearing under the march of modern commercialism. John takes his reader ...Show more
Fighters by Trade: A History of Boxing in Australia by Robert Drane
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sport
A fascinating social history of the development of boxing in Australia.
High Surf: The World's Most Inspiring Surfers by Tim Baker
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sport
What do novelist Tim Winton, classical violinist Richard Tognetti, and celebrity chef Steve Snow have in common. In a word, surfing. Profiles the surfing world's most intriguing characters. First published 2007.
The Marvellous Mania : Alistair Cooke on Golf by Alistair Cooke
$24.95 AUD
Category: Sport
Although 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 was hooked for the rest of his life. This book brings together the best of Cooke's writings about his greatest sporting passion, which display the incompa ...Show more
Surf Science by Tony Butt
$47.95 AUD
Category: Sport
Have you ever wondered where waves come from? What makes every one different, why some peel nicely and others just close out? Why, some days, waves come in sets of six and others in sets of three, and what factors affect the behavior of a surfing break? If you have, this book is for you. Now in its seco ...Show more