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Sport biographies
Football - Bloody Hell!
By Patrick Barclay
Paperback
Published 01-Sep-2011
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Sir Alex Ferguson is the most controversial and compelling figure in football. For many he ranks as the greatest manager of all time. He is certainly the most successful. It's been more than ten years since Ferguson's Manchester United triumphed over Bayern Munich in the dying seconds of the Champions League final.
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Fever Pitch
By Nick Hornby
Paperback
Published 30-Aug-2012
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As a young boy, growing up in London and watching his parents' marriage fall apart, the author had little sense of home. Then his dad took him to Highbury. Arsenal's football ground would become the source of many of the strongest feelings he'd ever have: joy, humiliation, heartbreak, frustration, and hope. This title presents his story.
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Chris Brasher
By John Bryant
Hardback
Published 15-Mar-2012
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One of the most remarkable - and controversial - sporting figures in British history, Chris Brasher piled unique achievement on unique achievement.
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Way it Was
By Stanley Matthews
Paperback
Published 04-Jun-2001
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Sir Stanley Matthews was the most famous and revered England football player of all time - a living legend
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Paula
By Paula Radcliffe
Paperback
Published 03-Oct-2005
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With two chapters on Paula's heart-stopping victories in the New York and London marathons, this is the autobiography of one of the greatest British athletes of modern times - including the full story of her Greek tragedy in Athens.
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Bring Me the Head of Sergio Garcia
By Tom Cox
Paperback
Published 04-Sep-2008
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As a teenager, Cox dreamed of sporting immortality. For four years he devoted himself to the game of golf. And then, one day, he walked away. But as he got older, those dreams kept coming back. Perhaps it was turning thirty, perhaps it was having his first hole in one, but he decided it was time to start again, to live the dream for real.
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Trautmann's Journey
By Catrine Clay
Paperback
Published 03-Mar-2011
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Every football fan knows the legend of Bert Trautmann. From an amateur footballer working on a bomb disposal unit in Liverpool, to celebrated Manchester City goalkeeper adored by thousands, this title charts Trautmann's conversion from Hitler Youth star to all-England football hero.
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Wildest Dream
By Peter Gillman
Paperback
Published 03-May-2001
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A revealing and complete biography of doomed hero George Mallory, which includes previously unpublished letters and family papers
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Feeding the Rat
By Al Alvarez
Paperback
Published 07-Jul-2003
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Written by the author of "Poker and The Biggest Game in Town", this book gives a portrait of the climbing legend Mo Anthoine. It is suitable for fans of adrenaline sports.
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Nice Jumper
By Tom Cox
Paperback
Published 22-Nov-2012
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As a teenager in Nottingham, Tom Cox was possessed. Despite the best endeavours of his frankly rather groovy parents, nascent fashion sense and regular exposure to credible music from an early age, he was inexorably drawn into the bizarre, esoteric world that is golf, with its male-bonding rituals and strange trousers.
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