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The Illustrated History of Football: the highs and lows of football, brought to life in comic form...

By David Squires

The Totally Football Book

By James Richardson

By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions; 10th anniversary edition

By Richard Cohen

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

By Andrew Ward

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

The Little Book of the Ashes: Cricket's oldest, and fiercest, rivalry

By Orange Hippo!

The Professor, The Banker And The Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of all Time

By Michael Craig

Swinging Away: How Cricket and Baseball Connect

By Beth Hise, Matthew Engel

F2 World of Football: How to Play Like a Pro

By Freestylers, F2

Swell: A Waterbiography The Sunday Times SPORT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017

By Jenny Landreth