Rugby category: 302 books
THE BALD TRUTH - Keith Senior
My life in the world's hardest sport
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
THE BALD TRUTH
KEITH SENIOR My life in the world's hardest sport written with Peter Smith
Great Northern Books Limited Mr Super League, Keith Senior, is one of British rugby’s most recognisable and controversial individuals. Among only a handful of survivors from rugby league’s...
by alex trostanetskiy
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Are you looking for a journey that will take you through Greatest Rugby Players to Ever Play the Game: Top 100 , along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria....
by Steven Gauge
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
"In my late thirties, it gradually dawned on me that I had become Jason’s regular hooker. It was an arrangement that worked well for a couple of reasons. He didn’t need me to dress up in anything particularly risqué or to do anything too vulgar, other than cuddle in the middle of a field...
by alex trostanetskiy
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Are you looking for a journey that will take you through 100 of the Best Rugby Players of All Time, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating 100...
Stride for Stride
The Lions in New Zealand 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Reviewing the British Lions' tour of New Zealand in 2017, Stride for Stride covers the tour from every angle. The 2017 British and Irish Lions matched the All Blacks, stride-for-stride, point for point, until the teams could not be separated. It made for a compelling spectacle. This is the story of...
by Brad Fittler
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
A true insider's look at the 2011 rugby league season from hugely popular former player Brad Fittler, featuring all the action from on and off the field and complete with trademark Fittler insights and humour. Includes over 100 photographs. Brad Fittler - aka 'Freddy' to most in rugby league's world...
Michael Owen: My Story
The Autobiography of the British Lions and Wales Rugby Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Michael Owen is a rugby legend who captained the Welsh team to their first Grand Slam victory in 27 years, led the British Lions, and was the 1000th player to be capped by Wales. Here he tells his own life story—the story of a true sportsman. Michael's talent became apparent early on and, having...
Odd-Shaped Balls
Mischief-Makers, Miscreants and Mad-Hatters Of Rugby
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Rugby is not a game for those who think that centres are what you find in a box of Black Magic or who confuse Jonah Lomu with Joanna Lumley. At the same time, it is not a game for the bright: what kind of tortured mind would invent an oval ball? Of course, it helps if you know the rules and don't...
Touch, Pause, Engage!
Exploring The Heart Of South African Rugby
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
South Africa is a land of contrasts, as the tourist brochures promise, and this is true for the game of rugby. From the Pretoria heartland to the aspirant Eastern Cape, from the hardscrabble Cape Flats to the islands of privilege at Bishops and Grey College. No other rugby-playing nation has to grapple...
The Real McCaw
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Richie McCaw, Rugby World Cup winning captain and the New Zealand All Black's most capped player of all time, is unquestionably the greatest player of his generation and arguably the most talented player of all time. In this bestselling autobiography, he talks with brutal honesty about the roots of...
The Iron Duke
Bobby Windsor - The Life and Times of a Working-Class Rugby Hero
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Lions legend Bobby Windsor has enjoyed triumphs beyond the dreams of most international players but has also suffered personal tragedy. His rugby career as the best hooker in the British Isles during the second golden era of Welsh rugby in the 1970s is a turbulent tale of blood and thunder on the...
Shane
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Shane Williams has spent almost a decade thrilling the rugby world with his evasive running skills and a box of tricks that has left the best defences grasping thin air, disproving the notion that size matters in modern professional rugby. He's been called the little wizard, the artful dodger and...
Man and Ball
My Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
SHORTLISTED FOR RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS
'When I came into the Ulster team,' Stephen Ferris says with typical candour, 'we were crap'. It was, however, preferable to his day job of paving driveways, and that day in 2005 saw the start of an incredible journey...
When the Lions Came to Town
The 1974 rugby tour to South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
The early 1970s in South Africa were a time of economic boom, political repression, growing isolation and an unshakeable confidence that the Springboks were the best rugby team in the world - until the infamous 1974 British Lions tour. It was a tour in which a group of talented and long-haired rugby...