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Cycling: The Craze of the Hour

By Various Authors

When Football Was Football: World Cup: A Nostalgic Look at Football's Greatest Competition

By Adam Powley

Cricket's Strangest Matches (The Strangest Series)

By Ward, Andrew

British Tennis: From the Renshaws to the Murrays

By Kevin Jefferys

Ten to Win . . . And the Last Man In: My Pick of Test Match Cliffhangers

By Henry Blofeld

Cricket's Strangest Matches: Extraordinary but true stories from over a century of cricket

By Andrew Ward

Football Against The Enemy

By Simon Kuper

The Day a Team Died: The Classic Eye-Witness Account of Munich 1958

By Frank Taylor

Howzat!: Kerry Packer and the Great Cricket War

By Christopher Lee

The Little Wonder: The Remarkable History of Wisden

By Robert Winder

Anfield of Dreams: A Kopite's Odyssey

By Neil Dunkin

Old Trafford: The Official Story of the Home of Manchester United

By MUFC, Ian Marshall

Who Are Ya?: 92 Football Clubs – and Why You Shouldn’t Support Them (Globalizing Sport Studies)

By Day, Kevin, Lineker, Gary

The Big Shots

By Jonathan Garnier Ruffer

Formula 1: The Official History

By Formula 1A (R), Maurice Hamilton, Ross Brawn

30 years of wrestlemania

Beryl - WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023: In Search of Britain's Greatest Athlete, Beryl Burton

By Jeremy Wilson (Football Writer)

White Hot: The Inside Story of England Cricket's Double World Champions

By Tim Wigmore, Matt Roller

Heat of the Moment: 25 Extraordinary Stories of Olympic and Paralympic History

By Andrew Longmore

Golf's Strangest Rounds: Extraordinary but true stories from over a century of golf

By Andrew Ward

Rugby World Cup France 2023: The Official Book

By Simon Collings

Jack and Bobby: A story of brothers in conflict

By Leo McKinstry

The Best After-Dinner Sports Tales

By Will Chignell, Bill Beaumont

The Formula One Years

Sports History: A Practical Guide

By Martin Polley

Who Owns the Ice House?: Eight Life Lessons from an Unlikely Entrepreneur

By Gary G Schoeniger, Clifton L Taulbert

Once There Were Giants: The Golden Age of Heavyweight Boxing

By Jerry Izenberg, Manny Pacquiao

Wimbledon: A Personal History

By Sue Barker

The Art of Batting: The Craft of Cricket’s Greatest Run Scorers

By Jarrod Kimber

The Escape: The Tour, the Cyclist and Me

By David Walsh, Pippa York