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No Regrets: The Story of Wales' Plan For Rugby World Cup Glory
No Regrets was the name given to Welsh rugby's three-year masterplan to give the national team the best possible chance of success at the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan. Here, acclaimed Western Mail rugby correspondent Matthew Southcombe reveals how this masterplan led to the 2017 tour success in Argentina, a clean sweep of the 2018 autumn internationals and, in 2019, a Six Nations Grand Slam, a record 14-game unbeaten run and a World Rugby No.1 in the ranking.
£13.99
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He Did his Bit - Stories Behind the Shirt Collection of Wels
Charlie Pritchard was a big name on the Welsh rugby scene in the years preceding the First World War, playing locally for Newport and Wales. During this time he started collecting rugby shirts from across the globe, which now offer a unique and accessible insight into the sport's history, which is told here from the perspective of a passionate...
£9.99
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Jog On: How Running Saved My Life
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Bella's brilliant love letter to running turns into an extraordinarily brave and frank account of her battle with anxiety. A compassionate and important book' Joe Lycett'Perfect for resetting a glum January mindset' Alexandra Heminsley'My kind of role model' Ben Fogle
£10.99
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How Not to Be a Professional Racing Driver
Two-time championship-winning and record-breaking racing driver, Jason Plato is a living, breathing example of what you shouldn't do if you want to become a professional racing driver. But, despite his hedonistic tendencies, and since joining the Williams Touring Car team in 1997, he has had more race wins than Lewis Hamilton and Stirling Moss, competed in more races than Jenson Button and set the largest number of fastest laps ever. There is nothing sensible, predictable or considered about Jason, but this is how he became a racing legend.
£12.99
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Open Side: The Official Autobiography
Updated edition featuring a brand new afterword'A terrific book. No one put their body on the line quite like Sam Warburton.'Brian O'Driscoll'It was an absolute privilege to play against Sam. An inspiring leader with an equally inspiring story to tell.'Jonny Wilkinson
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Pride and Passion: My Autobiography
Warren Gatland is one of the world's most renowned and intriguing rugby coaches of the modern era, leading Wales to four Six Nations titles, three Grand Slams and two World Cup semi-finals and masterminding two history-making tours as Head Coach of the British and Irish Lions. As he leaves his post as Head Coach of Wales at the end of the 2019 Rugby World Cup, Gatland's definitive autobiography provides a colourful and vivid chronicle of an extraordinary three decades at rugby's dynamic coal-face. The personal journey has been rewarding and challenging in equal measure, spanning many of the sport's most passionate heartlands such as New Zealand, Ireland, England and, of course, Wales.
£12.99
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Great Romantic: Cricket and the golden age of Neville Cardus - Winner of Willia
Neville Cardus described how one majestic stroke-maker 'made music' and 'spread beauty' with his bat. Between two world wars, he became the laureate of cricket by doing the same with words. In 'The Great Romantic', award-winning author Duncan Hamilton demonstrates how Cardus changed sports journalism for ever. While popularising cricket - while appealing, in Cardus' words to people who 'didn't know a leg-break from the pavilion cat at Lord's'- he became a star in his own right with exquisite phrase-making, disdain for statistics and a penchant for literary and musical allusions. Among those who venerated Cardus were PG Wodehouse, John Arlott, Harold Pinter, JB Priestley and Don Bradman. However, behind the rhapsody in blue skies, green grass and colourful characters, this richly evocative biography finds that Cardus' mother was a prostitute, he never knew his father and he received negligible education.
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I've Got Mail: The Soccer Saturday Letters
'I've Got Mail' is the brand new book from Jeff Stelling, the 'Sunday Times' bestselling author and host of Sky Sports' iconic football show 'Soccer Saturday.' Reproducing a selection of correspondence he has received down the years, Stelling tells some intriguing stories around his experiences in broadcasting and football. This charming book is by turns warm and funny, moving and poignant, and invariably underpinned by a deeply rooted love of football and people.
£16.99
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Rough Magic: Riding the world's wildest horse race
The Mongol Derby is the world's toughest horse race. A feat of endurance across the vast Mongolian plains once traversed by the people of Genghis Khan, competitors ride 25 horses across a distance of 1000km. Many riders don't make it to the finish line. In 2013 Lara Prior-Palmer - 19, underprepared but seeking the great unknown - decided to enter the race. Driven by her own restlessness, stubbornness, and a lifelong love of horses, she raced for seven days through extreme heat and terrifying storms, catching a few hours of sleep where she could at the homes of nomadic families. Battling bouts of illness and dehydration, exhaustion and bruising falls, she found she had nothing to lose, and tore through the field with her motley crew of horses. In one of the Derby's most unexpected results, she became the youngest-ever champion and the first woman to win the race.
£9.99
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Saving Rugby Union: The Price of Professionalism
An unrivalled insight into the sad mismanagement of rugby union in the 25 years since it turned professional, endangering its future at amateur level. The book recounts the history of the early decades as a professional sport, and suggests solutions to the injury crisis and financial apartheid operated by the major northern-hemisphere unions....
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Lights Out, Full Throttle: The Good the Bad and the Bernie of Formula One
The Good, the Bad, and the Bernie of Formula One's cult double act.
£20.00
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Life, Laughs and Football
This text is inspired by stories Gary Lineker and Danny Baker have shared with each other about what life in football is really like. Not the dull-as-dishwater post-match interviews you sometimes see on TV, but the secrets, the superstitions, the laughs and the personalities at the heart of it all.
£12.99
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Both Sides: The International Bestseller
Known as 'Lord Bendtner' to his fans and haters alike, Nicklas Bendtner has been lauded for his football skills at superclubs Arsenal and Juventus. But his career has been haunted by his rocky behaviour and tendency to self-sabotage. 'Both Sides' is Bendtner's shockingly honest memoir of both the bright and dark sides of his personality and the football industry, and what really happens when you give a troubled, overconfident teen millions to spend.
£12.99
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Mountains According to G
Cycling fans obsess about climbs and big mountains. They love reading about their tests and tribulations and they love to ride them - a cricket lover can never bat at Lord's, or a football supporter score at Wembley, but any rider can take on the challenge of an iconic mountain. There have been fine books about the big climbs before but never from the voice of an elite GC winner, taking you inside what these climbs really feel like, where the attacks come, where the pain kicks in. From best-known big-hitters, via pro-peloton favourites, to the secret climbs Geraint has come to love, and featuring Australia, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Mallorca and Wales, this is the cyclist's secret manual.
£16.99
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Unholy union
No sport has undergone so traumatic a transformation as rugby since the turn of the century. The last of the major sports to be granted a licence to make or dispense money, rugby was propelled on a trajectory that has twisted its cumbersome frame to the very limits of integrity and continues to do so. The pressures exerted throughout, on infrastructure, economics, administrators and, most poignantly of all, the players themselves, have conjured the perpetual impression of a sport on the brink of explosion or implosion, a drama compelling and appalling to behold. 'Unholy Union' is a snapshot of the sport in the early 21st century, pulling apart how we have come to be where we are, while brazenly prescribing what needs to be done next.
£12.99
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85 Not Out
Fresh, vivacious and ridiculously entertaining, this book is destined to unravel as a rip-roaring read not only for those who recall Ted Dexter's sporting legacy, but for anyone who resonates with his fervent enthusiasm for both cricket and life.
£20.00
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Where There's A Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Contine
A London cycle courier with a taste for adventure, Emily Chappell entered an extraordinary new race - The Transcontinental - in which riders must find their own way, entirely unassisted, across Europe in the shortest time possible. On her second attempt, she won the women's event, covering nearly 4000 miles in 13 days and ten hours, sleeping in short bursts wherever exhaustion took her. In the aftermath of a win that troubled as much as pleased her she worked with Mike Hall, the founder of the race, until his tragic death on the road. 'Where There's a Will' is a book about a normal person finding the capacity to do something extraordinary; the paradoxes of comradeship, competition, vulnerability and will and the shock of grief, combined in a beautifully written and very human story.
£11.99
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How To Build A Car
'Adrian has a unique gift for understanding drivers and racing cars. He is ultra competitive but never forgets to have fun. An immensely likeable man.' Damon Hill
£30.00
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The Breath of Sadness: On love, grief and cricket
When Ian Ridley's wife, the trailblazing sports reporter Vikki Orvice, died of cancer at 56, he was plunged into a sadness he expected and a madness he did not. Seeking solace from the brutality of his grief and anxiety, he spent a summer watching county cricket, and has written a poignant, tender and candid exploration of love and loss.
£13.99
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My Life and Rugby: The Autobiography
The phenomenal bestselling autobiography of Eddie Jones, the England Rugby head coach and one of the most respected coaches in sport.
£14.99
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At the edge
Danny MacAskill lives on the edge. The cyclist is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia and Imaginate: nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale everything from mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills and millions of online hits. It hasn't been an easy ride. Doubt, stress and the 'what if?' factor circle every trailblazing trick, which require imagination, fearlessness, groundbreaking techniques and an eye for a good camera angle. He has spent his life pushing the extremes; somehow, he's still around to tell the tale. In this unflinching memoir of mayhem, Danny shares his anarchic childhood on the Isle of Skye and early days as a street trials rider, takes us behind the scenes of his training and videos, shares never-seen-before sketches from his personal notebook, and reveals what it takes to go the next level.
£12.99
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The Rodchenkov affair
In 2015, Russia's Anti-Doping Centre was suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) following revelations of a state-sponsored doping programme at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Involving a nearly undetectable steroid delivery system known as 'Duchesse cocktail', tampering and switching of urine samples, and a complex state-sanctioned cover-up, the programme was masterminded by Grigory Rodchenkov. 'The Rodchenkov Affair' tells the full, unadulterated story that was first glimpsed in Bryan Fogel's award-winning documentary and still continues to captivate and shock the world.
£20.00
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Running like a girl
Defeated by gyms, bored by yoga, intimidated by glossy tennis clubs, Alexandra Heminsley decided to run. She had high hopes. But her first attempt was awful. This is the book she wishes she had that day.
£10.99
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