Biography: Sport

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...

An L.A. hot-rodder with a high school education, a family to support, and almost no money, Craig Breedlove set out in the late 1950s to do somethin...

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...

THE FIGHTER. THE ACTIVIST. THE MAN. THE ICON. An officially authorized collection, Muhammad Ali Unfiltered is an intimate look at one of the most i...

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 ...

A heartfelt portrait of Hank Aaron, featuring nearly 40 years of stories plus never-before-told insights from the home run king When journalist Ter...

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

The first full biography of the star Negro Leaguer and Hall of Famernow in paperback James Cool Papa Bell was a legend in Black baseball, a lightni...

Nominated for the BGE Irish Sports Books of the Year and the Éir Sports Book of the Year For most of the 20th century, professional cycling was do...

WINNER OF THE FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR'This footbal...

The King of White Hart Lane is the authorised life story of Alan Gilzean, the legendary, world-class Tottenham Hotspur, Dundee and Scotland footbal...

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...