Turning the Tide by Michelle Ford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Against the backdrop of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, the 1980 Moscow Olympics was always going to be political. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser wanted Australia’s Olympic athletes to boycott the Games, in line with the USA, but many of the athletes had a different view and compe ...Show more
On the Ashes by Gideon Haigh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The master cricket writer on the greatest sporting contest of them all. Nothing compares to the Ashes. The Ashes is always coming, even when it is finished. The Ashes is where hope, expectation, magic and chagrin flourish in equal measure, and performance is permanently burnished. In On The Ashes, Gid ...Show more
The Boys' Club by Michael Warner
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The Boys' Club is the must-read inside story behind the power and politics of the AFL, Australia's biggest sport. Revealing how a fledgling state administrative body evolved into the Australian Football League and its meteoric rise to become one of the richest and most powerful organisations in the land ...Show more
My Sporting Life: Memories, Moments and Declarations by Michael Parkinson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sport
'Like my father before me, I believe that both the playing and watching of sport can teach us important lessons about ourselves by providing practical instruction in co-operation, tests of resolve and temper'Michael Parkinson was destined to spend his life in sport. Introduced at a young age to cricket ...Show more
Unbreakable by Jess Halloran, Jelena Dokic
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Category: Sport
This is a story of Jelena Dokic's survival. How she survived as a refugee, twice. How she survived on the tennis court to become world No. 4. But, most importantly, how she survived her father, Damir Dokic, the tennis dad from hell.Jelena was a prodigious talent, heralded as Australia's greatest tennis ...Show more
Bloody Minded: My Life in Cycling by Alex Dowsett
$42.99 AUD
Category: Sport
'Immensely readable and revealing' The Guardian 'A must read' Phil Liggett, MBE 'A story like no other in cycling' Ned Boulting IMAGINE COMPETING IN THE WORLD'S MOST BRUTAL CYCLE RACES, KNOWING THAT A CRASH COULD BE FATAL Alex Dowsett is one of Britain's greatest cyclists. He has ridden Grand Tours and ...Show more
The Electrifying 80s: footys outrageous decade in the words of its best writers by Geoff Slattery (Editor); Russell Jackson (Editor)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Sport
Ablett, Brereton, Matthews, Bartlett, Doull, DiPierdomenico, Lockett, Barassi, Hafey, Jeans, Sheedy and Dyer. Just some of the names who made 1980s football a sight (and sound) to behold. If the 1970s was the decade the game went technicolour, the 80s—spanning from the dying days of Richmond’s golden er ...Show more
The Game - A collection of the best AFL stories by Dennis Cometti
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The Game is a collection of the best AFL writers and the magnificent moments on and off the field from more than 10 years of AFL. Featuring writers such as the award-winning Greg Baum, Caroline Wilson, Martin Flanagan, Rohan Connolly, Emma Quayle and Jake Niall, this collection delves behind the statist ...Show more
Cheat: The not-so-subtle art of conning your way to sporting glory by Titus O'Reily
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sport
A hilarious trip through the history of cheating sport.Mastering the not-so-subtle art of cheating in sport.Where there's sport, there's cheating. No sport is immune; athletics, swimming, rugby, American Football, cricket, baseball, badminton, motorsports, tennis and curling. Yes, even that sport on the ...Show more
Girls Don't Play Sport: The game-changing, defiant rise of women's sport, and why it matters by Chloe Dalton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
A timely and defiant manifesto unpacking the past, present and future of women's sport, from the Olympic gold medal-winning founder of The Female Athlete Project.
Icons of Sport by Kevin Sheedy
$39.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Footy legend Kevin Sheedy crosses codes to celebrate the most iconic Australian sportspeople of his time, paying tribute to the 28 men and women whose feats have most inspired him during a life in sport. From Jack Brabham and Evonne Goolagong Cawley to Lauren Jackson and Cadel Evans, this pantheon of Au ...Show more
The Immortals of Australian Motorcycle Racing: The World Champs by Darryl Flack
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Category: Sport
The Immortals of Australian Motorcycle Racing: The World Champs celebrates our greatest ever riders. It takes the Immortals concept used elsewhere in sport and applies it to two-wheeled motorsport, choosing the best of the best from the 500cc and MotoGP eras, Bathurst's road racing era, the Dakar Rally, ...Show more