Books for sport fans

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Top Knocks

Brad Hodge

Inside the top 20 batting performances in Australian cricket over the past 50 years from former Test cricketer Brad Hodge, including interviews with the star batters

$39.99

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The Baggy Green

Michael Fahey, Michael Coward

The Baggy Green explores the cap's history, mystique and worth, with insight from the sport's greatest figures, museums and leading auction houses.

$34.99

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Sport

Titus O'Reily

A highly entertaining romp through sporting history's best sins and greatest sinners.

$36.99

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The Rise of the Matildas

Fiona Crawford

Relive the Matildas' dramatic Women's World Cup campaign, and their wider impact

$34.99

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Cricket

Mark Ray

Cricket: A Portrait of a Game is photography in the tradition of the great 20th century photographers. It captures the heart of the game from the commentators chatting in the…

$70.00

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Narcoball

David Arrowsmith

A gripping account of the chaotic period of Colombian football where cartels dictated results and players and referees died for drug lords' sporting obsessions.

$34.99

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Headshot

Rita Bullwinkel

Headshot is the story of the eight best teenage girl boxers in the United States, told over the two days of a championship tournament and structured as a series of…

$24.99

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The Matilda Effect

Fiona Crawford

From the journey to just play to the fight for the world cup

$35.00

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The Fairytale: A Real and Imagined History of Australian Sport

H.G. Nelson

For more than thirty years, H. G. Nelson has been finding the poetry in the punt and humour during half-time. Now, he turns his keen eye for facts and folly…

$34.99

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Not Everything Counts but Everything Matters

Ivan Cleary

How connection and courage teach us to win - an NRL leadership story, from the history-making coach who pulled off the impossible to inspire, mentor and lead a grassroots club…

$49.99

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Roughy

Jarryd Roughead

Roughy is a story of perspective from a Hawthorn legend - much more than a footballer’s tale.

A country boy who grew up watching his old man play local footy…

$34.99

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Leather Soul: A Half-back Flanker’s Rhythm and Blues

Bob Murphy

The celebrated Australian football bard Martin Flanagan has long insisted Bob Murphy has a book in him like no footballer has written. Leather Soul proves him right.         

$36.99

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Lofted

William Watt

A visual adventure for the modern golfer, Lofted will transport you far and wide through the world of golf.

$49.99 $29.99

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Golden Daze

Sean Doherty

Australia’s best surf writer brings to life the wild, bold, brave story of Australian surfing from 1915 to the present through the stories of Surfing Australia’s Hall of Fame surfers…

$44.99

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Turning: Lessons from Swimming Berlin’s Lakes

Jessica J. Lee

She swims to explore the natural history of fresh water and to examine her own place in the world. Turning is a nature memoir chronicling Jessica J. Lee’s year of…

$26.99

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The Mamba Mentality

Kobe Bryant

The first book from the basketball superstar Kobe Bryant - a lavish, deep dive inside the mind of one of the most revered athletes of all time    

$52.99

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For Cap and Country

Simon Auteri,Jesse Hogan,Andrew Faulkner

The personal stories behind one of Australia’s most beloved sporting icons - the baggy green.

$34.99

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Carn: The Game, and the Country that Plays it

Andrew Mueller

There have been histories of Australian football before. There has not been one like Carn.

$34.99

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Heartland: How Rugby League Explains Queensland

Joe Gorman

Journalist Joe Gorman chronicles a tale of loss and rebirth - from the decline of the Brisbane Rugby League competition and North Queensland’s Foley Shield to the extraordinary rise of…

$32.99

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Hoop Dreams Down Under

Matt Logue

Twenty-six home-grown Aussie superstars who have taken American basketball by storm.

$34.99

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Never Say Die

Fiona Crawford,Lee McGowan

The inspirational story of the past, present and future of Australian women’s football - its players, fans, and the game they love.

$19.99

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Basketball (and Other Things)

Shea Serrano

An informative and hilarious illustrated look at the thirty-six most important arguments ever made about basketball, from the super serious to the super ridiculous

$34.99

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String Theory: David Foster Wallace On Tennis

David Foster Wallace

A Library of America special publication.

$35.00

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Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen

Christopher McDougall

At the heart of Born to Run lies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons and are reputed to be the best distance runners…

$24.99

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The Art of Fielding

Chad Harbach

A wonderful, warm novel from a major new American voice.

$29.99

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