Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle (Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023) by Jody Rosen
$37.00 NZD
Category: Sport
A panoramic portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming our twenty-first century world**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023**'Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales' Mail on SundayA panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehic ...Show more
The Football Weekly Book by Max Rushden, Barry Glendenning
$33.00 NZD
Category: Sport
Enter the world of football's most popular podcast. Football Weekly -- the biggest football podcast in the world -- has decided the time (and the money) is right to finally commit their wisdom to paper. You know what this means: trivia, filler, too much about The Mighty Cambridge United, not enough abo ...Show more
Head On: An All Black's memoir of rugby, dementia, and the hidden cost of success by Carl Hayman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sport
An All Black's memoir of rugby, dementia, and the hidden cost of success. Carl Hayman, All Black #1000, once the most highly prized player in world rugby and a giant of the game in every sense - someone who was always respected, even feared. But at the end of seventeen years as a professional rugby pla ...Show more
Rugby League in New Zealand: A People's History by Ryan Bodman
$60.00 NZD
Category: Sport
This is the story of a sport told through its communities. It is compelling – richly illustrated and full of vivid accounts of players, their lives, their triumphs and their contests on the field. Drawing on oral history interviews and a wide range of archival sources, Ryan Bodman locates rugby league ...Show more
Le Fric Family, Power and Money: the Business of the Tour de France by Alex Duff
$30.00 NZD
Category: Sport
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
Cage Kings: How an Unlikely Group of Moguls, Champions and Hustlers Transformed the UFC into a $10 Billion Industry by Michael Thomsen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sport
A cultural and business history of the UFC, tracing the unlikely rise of mixed martial arts from what was derided in the '90s as "human cockfighting" - more violence than sport - to a global pop culture phenomenon.Senator John McCain once decried mixed martial arts as "human cockfighting," while the New ...Show more
Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World by Danielle Friedman
$25.00 NZD
Category: Sport
'Well-researched and readable' - Financial Times'An absorbing, pacy read' - New Statesman 'The story of lycra-clad feminism' - Stylist 'Canny and informative' - The New Yorker The untold history of women's exercise culture, from jogging and Jazzercise to Jane Fonda.
Around the World in 80 Minutes: In Search of Rugby Greatnesss by Robert Kitson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Sport
'A mesmerising, unforgettable journey around world rugby. ' Donald McRae Twice Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 'Magnificent - a hugely intelligent and entertaining interweaving series of tales that gets into the "how" of rugby.' - Stuart Barnes, Sunday Times and Times columnist, forme ...Show more
Everything to Play For The QI Book of Sports by James Harkin, Anna Ptasynski
$33.00 NZD
Category: Sport
The most improbable, fascinating and endlessly entertaining sporting facts and stories, from prehistory to the present day.
MAGIC: The Life of Earvin Magic Johnson by Roland Lazenby
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sport
The definitive biography of the basketball legend Earvin 'Magic' Johnson, from the author of Michael Jordan: the Life. Magic Johnson is one of the most beloved, and also controversial, athletes in history. He lifted the dowdy sport of American pro basketball into the global spotlight, a transformation d ...Show more
Showing Up: Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable by Nedd Brockmann
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sport
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable - the story of a 23-year-old tradie who put his body 'through hell and back 10 times' to prove that anything is possible when you break past your own barriers. When Nedd Brockmann set out to run the 3,953 kilometres from Cottesloe to Bondi Beach in the fastest k ...Show more
Modern New Zealand Cricket Greats - From Stephen Fleming to Kane Williamson by Dylan Cleaver
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sport
New Zealanders have just lived through a Golden Age of Cricket. That's not a sentence many brought up with a love of the great game in the 1990s thought they would read as the national side took the gains made in the 1980s - mostly though the deeds of the great Sir Richard Hadlee and the burgeoning tal ...Show more