During the last 20 years, international flat racing has changed from being a sport of kings and gentlemen, to become a multi-national multi-million dollar industry for the sharp and unscrupulous. The big players are not the Lords Derby and Roseberry, but a small number of rich Arab Sheikhs, an Ismaili Prince, a Greek shipping tycoon, the man who inherited Vernons Pools and a handful of tough and self-made American businessmen. They and their trainers, jockeys and racing and stud farm managers continually seek to knock each other out throughout the racing year. This is an account of the milieu and leading personalities of big money racing. Jamie Reid is racing correspondent for "Private Eye".

Emperors of the Turf

Sports & Outdoors

Reid, Jamie

Individual Sports

Pan/Macmillan

Shows paintings, graphics and drawings by the London artist and discusses his connection with the punk movement

Up They Rise: The Incomplete Works of Jamie Reid

SAVAGE, Jon

Arts & Photography

Faber&Faber

The adventures of Lex Parlane, a self-made Glasgow millionaire, bookmaker, and gambler, are set against the colorful world of steeplechase horse racing, in a tale that culminates at the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival

Easy Money

Literature & Fiction

Walker Co

*William Hill Sports Book of the Year award winning author*
Monsieur X is a dazzling tale of glamour, riches, violence and ultimately tragedy.
Patrice des Moutis was a handsome, charming and well-educated Frenchman with an aristocratic family, a respectable insurance business, and a warm welcome in the smartest Parisian salons. He was also a compulsive gambler and illegal bookie. 
Between the late 1950s and the early 1970s, Des Moutis made a daring attempt to beat the French state-run betting system. His success so alarmed the authorities that they repeatedly changed the rules of betting in an effort to stop him. And so a battle of wills began, all played out on the front pages of the daily newspapers as the general public willed Des Moutis on to ever greater triumphs. He remained one step ahead of the law until finally the government criminalized his activities, driving him into the arms of the underworld. Eventually the net began to close, high-profile characters found themselves the target of the state's investigation, and people began turning up dead.

Monsieur X: The incredible story of the most audacious gambler in history

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Bloomsbury Sport

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 *William Hill Sports Book of the Year award winning author* Monsieur X is a dazzling tale of glamour, riches, violence and ultimately tragedy. Patrice des Moutis was a handsome, charming and well-educated Frenchman with an aristocratic family, a respectable insurance business, and a warm welcome in the smartest Parisian salons. He was also a compulsive gambler and illegal bookie. Between the late 1950s and the early 1970s, Des Moutis made a daring attempt to beat the French state-run betting system. His success so alarmed the authorities that they repeatedly changed the rules of betting in an effort to stop him. And so a battle of wills began, all played out on the front pages of the daily newspapers as the general public willed Des Moutis on to ever greater triumphs. He remained one step ahead of the law until finally the government criminalised his activities, driving him into the arms of the underworld. Eventually the net began to close, high-profile characters found themselves the target of the state's investigation, and people began turning up dead.

Monsieur X

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

The first in-depth look at this rising jazz star. Born on Vancouver Island, Diana Krall attended Berklee College of Music in Boston on a scholarhsip before releasing her first album to critical accliam. Like her Canadian counterparts Alanis Morissette, Sarah McLachlan, Shania Twain, and Celine Dion, she has become a music celebrity, a personal freind of Srah Jessic Parker, Clint Eastwwod, Robert DiNiro, and Elvis Costello, her finance.

Diana Krall: The Language of Love

Arts & Literature

Quarry Press

Bandit Country: Brothers, Betrayal, and Murder in the Heart of a Gambling Empire (True-Crime Book About the Mafia)

Humor & Entertainment

Mango

Poetry. A TEMPORARY STRANGER is the final manuscript that Jamie Reid was working on when he died unexpectedly in June of 2015. The book is comprised of three sections: Homages, Fake Poems, and Recollections. In Homages we find poems of reverence and honour, tributes to writers who had opened up the world of poetry to Jamie and served as guides as he made his way as a poet in the world. There are poems to Spicer, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Breton, Francis Ponge, Tristan Tzara and others. The centerpiece of A TEMPORARY STRANGER is Fake Poems, so called, the author says in his introduction to the poems, because "There is no art on earth that can fully represent the exact and flowing experience of viewing stone within the flow of water and the waving light within the water and around the stone, and the subsequent sense of awe and beauty that arises in the interaction between the seer and the seen... In that sense, all art is fake..." The third section, Recollections, is an assemblage of Jamie's articles—paeans, really—that he wrote and published over the years. Here are pieces in praise, and in memory of Warren Tallman, John Newlove, Curt Lang, bill bissett, Nellie McClung, Gerry Gilbert, Artie Gold, Kim Goldberg, Kate Braid, Heidi Greco, Catherine Owen and others.

A Temporary Stranger

Poetry

Anvil Press

Time For Magic: A Shamanarchist's Guide to the Wheel of the Year

Carr-Gomm, Philip

Ellcock, Stephen

Marchant, John

History & Criticism

Watkins Publishing

A personal and autobiographical account of one man's passionate love affair with horse racing and betting, this book chronicles the origins and consequences of his obsession with the sport and his addiction to gambling, through good times and bad. By interweaving dramatic racing moments with key episodes from his own experiences, Reid shows how a love of "the turf" can transform and intensify everyday life. The book celebrates some of the great racing personalities of the last 40 years—from Sir Peter O'Sullevan and Lester Piggott to Jonjo O'Neill and Captain Ryan Price—and focuses on some of the most legendary horses, including Arkle and Dawn Run. As well as being a vivid portrayal of horse-racing life, this is a book about fathers and sons, grandmothers and grandsons, and the sometimes painful path from childhood to adulthood.

Days Like These: The Education of a Racing Lover

Puzzles & Games

Mainstream Publishing

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