Ruby Tui - Straight Up by Ruby Tui
$37.00 NZD
Category: Sport
This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable childhood yearning for a better option in life to Olympic Champion and the world's best rugby sevens player. Ruby learned to rely on herself and her own strengths as a child, growing up without role models, in ...Show more
Closer to the Edge - Climbing to the Ends of the Earth by Leo Houlding
$38.00 NZD
Category: Sport
One of Great Britain's finest climbers and adventurers, Leo Houlding started out climbing at ten years of age in the Lake District literally learning the ropes tackling the many peaks and crags the area was famous for. Honing his skills as he grew, Leo would travel abroad becoming the first Brit to free ...Show more
Fever Pitch: The Rise of the Premier League 1992-2004 by Paul McCarthy
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sport
The Premier League is the most watched sports league in the world, broadcast into 188 countries and watched by 3.2 billion people worldwide. Fever Pitch is a fascinating history of the Premier League, with exclusive material from all the big names involved in its formation. From David Beckham to Eric Ca ...Show more
Rugby Head by Greg Bruce
$35.00 NZD
Category: Sport
A man. A game. A life. A shambles. In this brutally honest, hilarious and forensic examination of both himself and the game he loves, Greg Bruce tells the story of his life growing up and becoming a man in a country and culture obsessed with rugby. From the triumphs and devastations of All Blacks perfor ...Show more
The Wit of Cricket: Second Innings by Barry Johnston
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sport
This bumper collection of the funniest anecdotes, jokes and stories from cricket's best-loved personalities proves that cricket is a funny game - even when rain stops play! In this updated and expanded edition, you can read not only the most popular stories by five of the game's all-time great character ...Show more
The Jersey: The All Blacks: The Secrets Behind the World's Most Successful Team by Peter Bills
$30.00 NZD
Category: Sport
<b>The phenomenal international number one bestseller with exclusive interviews with Richie McCaw, Steve Hansen, Beauden Barrett and Dan Carter, <i>The Jersey</i> is the first definitive story behind the greatest sports team on the planet.</b> ‘Extremely well written. Compelling, ...Show more
Ross Taylor: Black & White by Paul Thomas
$50.00 NZD
Category: Sport
When an athlete with an exceptional record of achievement and longevity comes to the end of their career, the numbers can speak for themselves.Ross Taylor has scored the most runs, made the most centuries and taken the most catches by a New Zealander in international cricket. He's the first New Zealand ...Show more
War on Wheels: Inside Keirin and Japan's Cycling Subculture by Justin McCurry
$25.00 NZD
Category: Sport
The strange and thrilling world of Japanese track racing - a cycling and betting culture unlike anything else on earthThe Olympic cycling sport of keirin was invented in Japan more than 70 years ago to raise money to rebuild the country after World War II. Now, fans bet billions of dollars a year on rac ...Show more
Owning It: The Ride that Changed my Life by Brad Smeele
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sport
Deeply thoughtful, honest and riveting story of a high-achieving sportsman who became a quadriplegic. Brad Smeele's thrill-seeking, fast-paced life as a professional wakeboarder came to an abrupt halt eight years ago when an accident caused him to become a quadriplegic. Wakeboarding is like waterskiing ...Show more
Why We Kneel How We Rise by Michael Holding
$27.00 NZD
Category: Sport
THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Through the prism of sport and conversations with its legends, including Usain Bolt, Adam Goodes, Thierry Henry, Michael Johnson, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Makhaya Ntini, Naomi Osaka and Hope Powell, Michael Holding explains how racism dehumanises people; how it work ...Show more
The Wicked Wit of Cricket by Mike Haskins
$25.00 NZD
Category: Sport | Series: The\Wicked Wit Ser.
Welcome to The Wicked Wit of Cricket, a compendium packed with the game's greatest stories from both on and off the field. 'The English, ' as George Bernard Shaw once remarked, 'are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.' Some might call it eternity. Othe ...Show more
Barça - The Rise and Fall of the Club That Built Modern Football by Simon Kuper
$30.00 NZD
Category: Sport
'This is a masterfully written history of the world's greatest football club. Més que un book!' - GARY LINEKERFrom the bestselling co-author of Soccernomics comes the story of how FC Barcelona became the most successful football club in the world - and how that envied position now hangs in the balance.B ...Show more