Hope and Glory: Rugby League in Thatcher's Britain by Anthony Broxton
$59.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Hope and Glory recreates the extraordinary era of Thatcherite Britain with the dramatic tension of a novel, revealing it as a critical moment in rugby league history when despite losing everything, anything seemed possible. Rugby league should never have survived Thatcher's Britain. As the sport of the ...Show more
Glory in Union The Rugby World Cup by Matthew Bazell
$59.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Glory in Union is a pictorial celebration of the Rugby World Cup, taking us on a thrilling journey from the inaugural tournament in 1987 to the present day. Using stunning stock images, it brings you the greatest and most iconic stars to have ever played the game, covering the great matches, turning poi ...Show more
Billy Bush - A Front Row View on Life by Bill Bush
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
AWESOME BOOK LAUNCH, Released 8th June 2023, IN STOCK enquire online or ph 03 358 4835 Bill Bush has a life story unlike any other All Black. A kina diver at primary school, a labourer at the Marsden Point refinery at 14, it took a promise of a Fanta and a pie to get him to play rugby, a sport he i ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield's Europe - Station to Station by Redmer Yska
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Beautifully written and illustrated with maps and stunning photography, Katherine Mansfield's Europe is part travelogue, part literary biography, part detective story and part ghost story. Guided by Mansfield's journals and letters, Redmer Yska traces her restless journey in Europe, seeking out the pla ...Show more
Yorkshire Grit: The Life of Ray Illingworth by Mark Peel
$74.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Yorkshire Grit: The Life of Ray Illingworth is a fascinating account of one of English cricket's most outstanding figures told by award-winning writer Mark Peel. Raised in the harsh world of Yorkshire cricket, Illingworth's all-round ability and tactical acumen made him an indispensable member of their ...Show more
Disappearing World: Our 18 First Class Cricket Counties by Sclyd Berry
$59.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Award-winning cricket writer Scyld Berry brings us a heartfelt celebration of what county cricket has been for more than a hundred years - an integral part of English life. Drawing on 60 years' experience of watching county cricket, the author provides an in-depth profile of each of the 18 first-class c ...Show more
From Darkness into Light: The War Heroes Who Helped Save Cricket from Oblivion by John Broom
$59.95 AUD
Category: Biography
From Darkness into Light tells the fascinating story of how a handful of intrepid cricketing soldiers helped save the game from oblivion. English cricket emerged from the Great War in a bruised and battered state. A four-year hiatus in the first-class game had left administrators, players and aficionado ...Show more
Partition and the Game of Cricket All-India and Down Under: Peace by Richard Knott
$44.95 AUD
Category: Biography
All-India and Down Under is the dramatic story of two cricket tours undertaken in the aftermath of the Second World War. For seven years the war had put the careers of England's cricketers on hold. Then, in 1946, England played three Tests against 'All-India'. However, it proved to be the last such tour ...Show more
Vula Bevalile: Letters from a Young Doctor by Goonetilleke, Maithri
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Second Edition with two new stories Vula Bevalile: Letters from a Young Doctor is a collection of vignettes written over seven years by Australian doctor Maithri Goonetilleke, who has been contributing his time voluntarily in Swaziland-a country devastated by extreme poverty and the HIV and AIDS epidemi ...Show more
Death Among Good Men by Nathalie Philippe
$69.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Lindsay Merritt Inglis was a young man who found a talent for soldiering with the First New Zealand Expeditionary Force, commanding a Machine Gun company and rising to the rank of Major. From Egypt to the Somme, Messines and Le Quesnoy, he was driven to harness the tactical use of machine guns, the kill ...Show more
Soundings - Diving for stories in the beckoning sea by Kennedy Warne
$43.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
For the past 40 years, Kennedy Warne, one of New Zealand's best-known nature writers and commentators, has been exploring the underwater world. His love of the ocean began as a small boy sailing and fishing with this father on the Hauraki Gulf and was further strengthened by a degree in marine biology. ...Show more