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Stan Cullis: The Iron Manager

By Jim Holden

Marco Pantani: The Legend of a Tragic Champion

By John Wilcockson, Pier Bergonzi, Guillaerm Prebuis

Olympic GangsterThe Legend of Jos Beyaert Cycling Champion, Fortune Hunter

By Matt Rendell

Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain

By Tim Moore

The Flying Scotsman: The Graeme Obree Story

By Graeme Obree

Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi

By Fotheringham, WILLIAM

Boy Racer

By Mark Cavendish

Simone Biles: Superstar of Gymnastics: GymnStars Volume 6

By Ricardo Bufolin, Joseph Dzidrums, Christine Dzidrums

A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like

By Ashley Graham, Rebecca Paley

Driving Ambition

By Richard Burns

Put Me Back on My Bike: In Search of Tom Simpson

By William Fotheringham

Miracle In The Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home

By Nando Parrado

Different Class: The Story of Laurie Cunningham

By Dermot Kavanagh

The Eight Sailing & Mountain-Exploration Books

By Major H. W. Tilman, CBE, DSO, MC, Bar

Emburey - An Autobiography

By John Emburey

My Family and Other Animals (Penguin Essentials)

By Durrell, Gerald

High Adventure

By Hillary, Sir Edmund

Walter Rothschild: The Man, the Museum and the Menagerie

By Rothschild, Miriam

The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion

By Tim Crothers

Seasons of My Life

By Hauxwell, Hannah

Amazon Journal: Dispatches from a Vanishing Frontier

By Geoffrey O'Connor

The Climb: The Autobiography

By Froome, Chris

Seven Years in Tibet (Paladin Books)

By Harrer, Heinrich

The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood

By Jane Leavy

American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

By Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Jim DeFelice

Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir

By Packham, Chris

Get Her Off the Pitch!: How Sport Took Over My Life

By Lynne Truss

The Beckoning Silence

By Simpson, Joe

Don't Stop Me Now: 26.2 Tales of a Runner's Obsession

By Vassos Alexander, Chris Evans

No Such Thing As Failure: The Extraordinary Life of a Great British Adventurer

By David Hempleman-Adams