A River Runs Through Me: A year and a life of salmon fishing in Scotland by Andrew Douglas-Home
$38.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
Tracing the shifts and moods of four seasons along Scotland's River Tweed, Andrew Douglas-Home weaves a story of a close relationship with salmon. Threaded through the year are stories too of one of the country's oldest families; stories of politics, military service, culture and the stewardship of our ...Show more
Le Fric Family, Power and Money: the Business of the Tour de France by Alex Duff
$30.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
The fascinating and unknown story of the Tour de France's ever-changing relationship with money and power - and the enigmatic family behind it all. It started with a cash drop by an English spy in occupied Paris in 1944. Reserved for Resistance groups during the war, the money reached Émilien Amaury ...Show more
Riding With The Rocketmen - One Man's Journey on the Shoulders of Cycling Giants by James Witts
$33.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors | Reading Level: very good
'Humble and very funny' - Ned Boulting'Essential reading for any Étape rider' - Daniel Friebe, co-host of The Cyclist PodcastAn Everyman dropped into the world of Supermen... Can this amateur cyclist complete L'Étape du Tour?Tadej Pogacar has 7% body fat, Chris Froome's resting heart rate is 30bpm, Mark ...Show more
Sticky Bottle: The Cycling Year According to Carlton Kirby by Carlton Kirby
$37.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
'Entertaining, quirky and an enjoyable read' - Phil Liggett MBE'A genuine one-off with a ready wit and a killer anecdote to hand at all times' - Rouleur'Entertaining... Carlton hows no sign of running out of amusing anecdotes... A worthy sequel that will give his fans more of what they like' - Road.ccLe ...Show more
Tinseltown: Hollywood and the Beautiful Game - a Match Made in Wrexham by Ian Herbert
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
The remarkable inside story of how two Hollywood A-listers, Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds, stunned the football world by buying a non-league club in North Wales. It was one of the most extraordinary takeovers British football has known. In February 2021, Ryan Reynolds joined with Rob McElhenney to bu ...Show more
Unstoppable: The Ultimate Biography of Max Verstappen by Mark Hughes
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
A definitive and intriguing biography of Max Verstappen, Formula 1's hottest new superstar, Lewis Hamilton's great rival, the winner of the 2021 World Drivers' Championship, and the recently crowned 2022 champion. No Hollywood scriptwriter could possibly have envisioned the breathless, adrenaline-pump ...Show more
In the Spell of the Barkley - Unravelling the Mystery of the World's Toughest Ultramarathon by Michiel Panhuysen
$37.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
'A wonderful, compelling read' - Vassos Alexander, radio presenter and ultrarunner Welcome to the Barkley Marathons, a fever dream of an ultra running event, inspired by a prison break, heralded by a conch blast and paid for in cigarettes and socks. Since the race began in 1986, just 15 people have suc ...Show more
Racing Green: the RAC MOTORING BOOK of the YEAR - How Motorsport Science Can Save the World by Kit Chapman
$25.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
Racing Green is the story of how advances in motorsport science are changing the world, helping it become smarter and more environmentally friendly. Motor racing is already one of the most scientifically demanding sports: it involves a combination of peak physical and mental skill, world-class mechanica ...Show more
Federer - The Definitive Biography by Chris Bowers
$28.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
The outstanding English-language biography of the great Swiss star, arguably the greatest tennis player of all time, now exhaustively revised and updated.
So Help Me Golf - Why We Love the Game by Rick Reilly
$30.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
This is the book Rick Reilly has been writing in the back of his head since he fell in love with golf at the age of eleven. He explores all of the wonderful, maddening, heart-melting, heart-breaking, cool, and captivating things that make the game so utterly addictive. We meet the PGA Tour player who ro ...Show more
Everest 1922 - The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the Worlds Highest Mountain by Mick Conefrey
$28.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
The dramatic and inspiring account of the very first attempt to climb Mount Everest, published to coincide with the centenary of the expedition of 1922.The first attempt on Everest in 1922 by George Leigh Mallory and a British team is an extraordinary story full of controversy, drama, and incident, popu ...Show more
The Monuments - The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races by Peter Cossins
$37.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
An awe-inspiring history of the five most legendary "classic" races in world cycling. The Tour de France may provide the most obvious fame and glory, but it is cycling's one-day tests that the professional riders really prize. Toughest, longest and dirtiest of all are the so-called 'Monuments', the ...Show more