The story of the man who started the running boom and coached Olympic champions.

Arthur Lydiard

Garth Gilmour

Biographies & Memoirs

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Athletics

Peter H. Matthews

Twickenham the History: From Cabbages to Concerts

Sports & Outdoors

Ed Harris

Other Team Sports

Harry Potts was a manager on a par with legends like Matt Busby, Bill Shankly and Bill Nicholson. He brought unprecedented success to small-town Burnley, under the chairmanship of the notorious Bob Lord. This is his story written from his wife's point of view. It's a love story as well as a football book. Imargaret, who died in late 2009, three years after the book was published, writes bravely about the problems she suffered throughout her marriage with her husband's mother, her brushes with small-town attitudes and the love story which started in the harsh winter of 1947 when Burnley FC gave her a lift on their coach from Manchester. Dave Thomas supplies the football side of Harry Potts' career by talking to many of the men who played under him.

Harry Potts: Margaret's Story

Potts, Margaret

The 1948 Olympics

Phillips, Bob

Lala Amarnath Life and Times: The Making of a Legend

Amarnath, Rajinder

Aintree's Queen Bee

Rimmer, Joan

Author John Carter interviewed and shadowed 14 racing personalities throughout 2007 at Newmarket, the home and headquarters of British horseracing, in a book supported by the racecourse. His subjects ranged across the racing world, from top jockey Frankie Dettori, who has also written the foreword, in a year he won his first Derby, on the Newmarket trained Authorized, to top female jockey Hayley Turner; from leading trainer Jeremy Noseda, to the clerk of the Newmarket courses Michael Prosser to its former managing director Lisa Hancock, who left to spend more time with her young family. John also talked to other members of the racing community such as bloodstock agent Tom Goff and museum curator Graham Snelling; stable girl Danni Deverson and owner Jan Harris. The book gives a fascinating glimpse into the often secret world of horseracing. One of the subjects, star photographer Trevor Jones, also supplied the photographs which are featured throughout the book.

Newmarket: A Year at the Home of Horseracing

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A Develyshe Pastime: A History of Football in All Its Forms (Sportsbooks)

Hughes, Graham

Finn McCool's Football Club: The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the Dead

Rea, Stephen

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