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Fair Game: Myth and Reality in Sport

By Eric Midwinter

Homer Kelley's Golfing Machine: The Curious Quest that Solved Golf

By Scott Gummer

The England Managers: The Impossible Job

By Brian Scovell

Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win

By Rachel Ignotofsky

The Football Man: People & Passions in Soccer

By Arthur Hopcraft, Michael Parkinson

Turf Wars: A History of London Football

By Steve Tongue

Soccer in the 1930s: Simple or Sublime?

By Jack Rollin

Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing

By John Rousmaniere

When Football Came Home: England, the English and Euro 96

By Michael Gibbons

Fifty-Six: The Story of the Bradford Fire

By Martin Fletcher

Barry Norman's Book of Cricket

By Barry Norman

BBC Sports Report: A Celebration of the World's Longest-Running Sports Radio Programme: Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023

By Pat Murphy

Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport

By Rob Steen

A Race for Madmen: The Extraordinary History of the Tour de France

By Chris Sidwells

Photographic History of British Football

By Parragon

You Cannot Be Serious!: The 101 Most Infuriating Things in Sport

By Matthew Norman

Kent County Cricket Club: Images of Sport

By William A Powell

In Search of Robert Millar: Unravelling the Mystery Surrounding Britain's Most Successful Tour de France Cyclist

By Richard Moore

Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters: Travels through England's Football Provinces

By Mr Daniel Gray

Blazing Saddles: The Cruel and Unusual History of the Tour De France

By Matt Rendell

Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain

By Tim Moore

Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina

By Jonathan Wilson

Football's Strangest Matches: Extraordinary but true stories from over a century of football

By Andrew Ward

Cricket: The Definitive Guide to the International Game

By John Stern

Maggie Alphonsi: Winning the Fight: My Autobiography

By Maggie Alphonsi, Gavin Mairs

The Periodic Table of CRICKET

By John Stern

Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To Talk About It

By Jon Entine

Manchester United: The Biography: The complete story of the world's greatest football club

By Jim White