Autobiography: Sport

Seen around the world, John Carlos and Tommie Smith's Black Power salute on the 1968 Olympic podium sparked controversy and career fallout. Yet the...

Micky Adams has a football CV as long as your arm, having put in 438 appearances as a full-back - for teams such as Gillingham, Leeds, Fulham and S...

Stuart Barnes has spent over forty years of his life immersed in rugby union, remembered as one of the most controversial playing names during the ...

From somewhere out in the vast whiteness of the blizzard we hear a cry for help. Instinctively the three of us turn and head across the mountainsid...

No Place to Fall is Victor Saunders follow up to his Boardman Tasker Prize winning debut book Elusive Summits. Covering three expeditions in Nepal,...

'A full and fascinating portrait of one of the great figures of mountaineering.' Michael PalinAt dusk on 24 September 1975, Doug Scott and Dougal ...

A cult football figure, Vince Hilaire's career spanned over 600 games and took in spells at Crystal Palace, Portsmouth, Leeds United and Stoke City...

Over 9,000 feet up on the top of Mount Roraima is a twenty-five mile square plateau, at the point where Guyanas border meets Venezuela and Brazil. ...

The mountains are crystal under the blue sky, as we climb up our untouched peak. This is why we climb.In this fast-paced, refreshingly honest accou...

''It was Kongur that dominated everything, and was the focus of our gaze and aspirations.''So thought Chris Bonington upon the Chinese Mountaineeri...

The North Face of the Eiger was long notorious as the most dangerous climb in the Swiss Alps, one that had claimed the lives of numerous mountainee...

It is rare in modern football that a player becomes synonymous with a club but through the 70s and 80s Steve Perryman was the heart and soul of Tot...

The start of a love affair: 'I kicked off my shoes and prepared to climb in stocking feet, aware of an enormous sense of occasion as I laid hands o...

Pat Smullen was one of the greatest Irish jockeys ever. In a career laden with success, his position as one of the countrys best ever flat jockeys ...

Winning takes many forms. For fans of Matthew Syed, this is a great sports book about leadership, judgement and decision-making roote...

In Havin a Ball one of basketballs most colorful characters and storytellers chronicles his life in the game, from high school coach in New Jersey ...

''HILARIOUS AND OUTRAGEOUS'' CHRIS EVANS THE HILARIOUS FULL-THROTTLE MEMOIR FROM ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHARACTERS IN UK MOTOR RACINGSHORTLISTED FOR TH...

The long-awaited autobiography of Manchester City and Sunderland legend Dennis Tueart, the outspoken former striker who spent 33 years at the club ...

A hilarious and, at times, moving and soul-searching account of rugby unions rollercoaster days in the 1990s, told through the eyes of a player who...

Rewind to 1971, and Sue Barker''s coach is sending his 15-year-old tennis protege to a junior championship in France, alone, with a one-way ticket,...

Jaco van Gass was 23 when he was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in Afghanistan in 2009. Losing his left arm to the blast, he sustained life-thre...

The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times across the U...

Dennis Mortimer became Aston Villa's most famous captain when he lifted the Lions' first League Championship trophy in 71 years. That was in 1981, ...

The electric and daring independent wrestling tag team share their inspiring story of how two undersized, ambitious athletes from Southern Californ...