AFL Books
Australian Rules Football In A Commercial Era
$34.95 – Paperback book /
With a foreword by David Parkin.
Many commentators have contended that commercialism and commodification, prominent in the last three decades, have been detrimental to the culture and integrity of Australian football. Th... Buy or find out more →
Football Legends Of The Bush
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Football Legends of the Bush is a stirring collection of tales about the best country players who went on to the big league and the hometown heroes who stayed behind and contributed to their local teams. From Bunbury to ... Buy or find out more →
AFL Record Season Guide 2012
$39.95 – Paperback book / Slattery Media Group
The AFL Record Season Guide 2012 is the 17th edition of what has become the statistical bible of the AFL. The 2012 Season Guide contains more than 1000 pages crammed with statistics, history and information as well as a ... Buy or find out more →
Greatness: Inside The Rebirth Of A Football Club
$34.95 – Paperback book /
Author Scott Gullan delves inside the premiership year that stamped Geelong as one of modern football’s outstanding football clubs. Over a five-season rebirth, the Geelong Football Club elevated itself from perennial bri... Buy or find out more →
The Ox Is Slow But The Earth Is Patient
$29.99 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
At the end of 2000, David Buttifant joined Coach Mick Malthouse as Head of Conditioning at the Collingwood Football Club. A decade later the pair have shared many events together, some of which have been life-changing.
H... Buy or find out more →
The Footy Almanac 2011
$32.95 – Paperback book / Viking
Now in its fifth year, the Footy Almanac is an institution. So when the final siren goes on the 2011 season, it isn't really over – there's plenty to tide you over to next year as the Almanackers take the reins, reliving... Buy or find out more →
2011 AFL Premiers Geelong
$34.95 – Digital video disc /
Geelong Cats are the Premiers for the third time in five years, after a brilliant victory over Collingwood in the 2011 Toyota AFL Grand Final. The Cats clearly had the Magpies’ number in 2011, defeating them three times ... Buy or find out more →
Jock: The Story Of Jock Mchale Collingwood's Greatest Coach
$50.00 – Hardcover book / Slattery Media Group
The life and times of the most successful coach in league football history. Author Glenn McFarlane examines Jock McHale's record 37 years as coach of Collingwood, his impact on the club and their seven premierships under... Buy or find out more →
Malcolm Blight: Player, Coach, Legend
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
Malcolm Blight is as famous for his mercurial nature as he is for his footy and his coaching. He's been a fixture on the Aussie Rules scene since he began playing for the Woodville FC in the SANFL in the late 1960s. In t... Buy or find out more →
The Mightiest Magpies: The Story Of Every Collingwood Premiership Season
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Michael Joseph
it's 1902 and Collingwood introduces short-passing tactics that revolutionise the game. It's 1917 and the Magpies rally to keep the VFL competition alive, providing welcome distraction from the war. It's 1930 and the Pie... Buy or find out more →
The Hafey Years: Reliving A Golden Era At Tigerland
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Westen Media
No name so encapsulates the Richmond Football Club like Tommy Hafey. Through the rich 126-year history of the club, Hafey oversaw its most dominant era - four premierships in a stunning nine-season period that, to this d... Buy or find out more →
Legends: The AFL Indigenous Team Of The Century
$34.95 – Paperback book /
A rare glimpse into the wonderful life stories of the best indigenous Austrailian-rules football stars, this record presents the players' own descriptions of their journeys, careers, and staunchest supporters. Inspiratio... Buy or find out more →
Collingwood: A Love Story
$35.00$29.95 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Read Paul Daley's blog post about writing Collingwood: A Love Story.
A multi-generational saga of football, love, war, forgiveness and, most critically, identity.
Every year when Collingwood plays Essendon in the AFL s ... Buy or find out more →
Pulling No Punches
$34.95$29.95 – Paperback book / Murdoch Books
Loved by some, loathed by others, throughout his sixteen seasons in the game Barry Hall has always polarised punters. Not only is he a superstar forward and one of the biggest crowd-pullers of the modern era, he’s also o... Buy or find out more →
Official Collingwood Illustrated Encyclopedia
$50.00 – Hardcover book / Slattery Media Group
Collingwood is Australian Football's biggest and most famous club. The Official Collingwood Illustrated Encyclopedia celebrates the rich history of this great club - players, coaches, premierships won and lost, fans, mem... Buy or find out more →
Straight Shooter
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Random House
A brutally honest account of an astonishing career from a man who is a straight shooter in more ways than one.
Matthew Lloyd at his peak was a goal kicking machine in an era where the power forward was fading from the ga... Buy or find out more →
The Liam Jurrah Story: From Yuendumu to the MCG
$24.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
"Thousands of people come to watch particular players because there is something about them that they can connect with and that excites, and Liam is doing just that…But he’s also showing that he’s a great man, a special ... Buy or find out more →
That's What Im Talking About
$29.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
When Shane Crawford debuted for Hawthorn Football Club in 1993, little did he know what an amazing future awaited him. The kid from tiny Finley in New South Wales would become a champion of the game, the heart and soul o... Buy or find out more →
Billy's Dictionary For Blokes
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
Until now there have only been two types of dictionaries. Big boring ones and pocket-sized boring ones, both about as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike.
Billy knows a bit about words because he talks a lot so he's put ... Buy or find out more →
My Life Story
$35.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
Ben Cousins has one of the most extraordinary stories in modern Australian sport. He's perhaps the most gifted player of his generation – a former captain of the West Coast eagles, a Brownlow medallist, a premiership win... Buy or find out more →
The Brownlow: A Tribute To The Greats Of Australian Football
$50.00 – Hardcover book / Slattery Media Group
The story of every winner of the most prized individual award in Australian Football, awarded to the League's Best and Fairest player, updated to include the 2010 winner. Buy or find out more →
Barassi
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
Barassi is Australian Football's first born son, the boy who became its prophet and its messiah. This is a deeply personal portrait of the legend.
His is a biblical tale, appropriate for a game that's a religion. Ron Bar... Buy or find out more →
Richo
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Random House
What happens when you put together the AFL’s best-loved player and the game’s best-loved writer?
Matthew Richardson, known as Richo, retired in 2009 as the most popular player in the AFL. Why was that? The careers of... Buy or find out more →
Footy Almanac 2010
$0.00 – Trade paperback / Viking
Your favourite fraternity of footy nuts has done it again, delivering the latest game-by-game account of the 2010 AFL season.
A collector's item for any die-hard fan, this is hand-on-heart, heart-in-mouth, edge-of-seat s... Buy or find out more →
Aussie Rules For Dummies
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Wiley
Packed with practical information and fascinating anecdotes, this indispensable guide takes you from the fundamentals and rules, terminology and equipment to the finer points of individual playing styles and into the rea... Buy or find out more →
Open Season
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
Johnno: Bulldog Through And Through
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
Brad Johnson grew up in Melbourne's western suburbs, never dreaming he'd one day become captain of the Western Bulldogs and the club's games record holder. He's the Doggies' pin-up boy – a true working-class man - known ... Buy or find out more →
Side By Side: A Season With Collingwood
$35.00 – Paperback book / Slattery Media Group
AFL Football is the most competitive sport in Australia and the Collingwood Football Club is the most famous sporting club in that competition.Peter Ryan has spent the 2009 season within the inner sanctum of the Collingw... Buy or find out more →
We Are Geelong: The Story Of The Geelong Football Club Since 1859
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Geoff Slattery
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the club in 2009, The Slattery Media Group is publishing We are Geelong, with essays from Australia’s leading football writers and historians, complemented by strong photographs and ... Buy or find out more →
Footy Passions
$34.95 – Paperback book / Nsw University Pr
Salary caps, drunken escapades, sponsorship deals, and teams enjoying victory and surviving defeat dominate coverage of football. Meanwhile fans agonise over line-ups, sweat over results, and look forward to the weekly f... Buy or find out more →
Passion Play: Love, Hope and Heartbreak at the Footy
$29.95 – Paperback book / Hunter Publishers
There’s something about Australian Rules football that drives people towards madness. Something that produces great pain and joy and an insatiable hunger for more.
Passion Play journeys into the world of footy mania an... Buy or find out more →
Side By Side: A Season with Collingwood
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Geoff Slattery
Peter Ryan has spent the 2009 season in the inner sanctum of the Collingwood Football Club. Author of The Australian Game of Football, Ryan examines the pressure, passions and personalities that make it one of the favour... Buy or find out more →
More Than A Game
$45.00 – Paperback book / Pier 9
Sporting matches are battles. To the fan they are simply battles waged between sportsmen and women, but the battle is sometimes part of something much bigger. A war that may involve not only the players on the field but ... Buy or find out more →
The Footy Almanac 2009
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
'If standing in the outer with a frosty can of beer was a football book, it would be The Footy Almanac.' - Sunday Herald Sun. Your favourite fraternity of footy nuts has done it again, delivering the latest game-by-game ... Buy or find out more →
One For All: The Story Of The Hawthorn Football Club
$79.95 – Hardcover book /
Highlights of the new book co-written by Walkley Award winning authors, Harry and Michael Gordon include:
• The story behind the Club’s 1991 premiership and the end of the most successful era in the modern history of the... Buy or find out more →
Our Great Game: The Photographic History Of Australian Football
$50.00 – Hardcover book / Slattery Media Group
Our Great Game - The Photographic History of Australian Football will take you on a journey of the country's biggest sporting code, from its origins in 1858 right through to the present day, in more than 300 pages of stu... Buy or find out more →
Best On Ground: Great Writers On The Greatest Game
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
'Who do you barrack for?'
Nothing unites or divides people as much as the tribal loyalty of AFL supporters. Combining passion for the game with a talent for words, seventeen writers explore the full range of supporters' ... Buy or find out more →
The Footy Almanac 2008
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
The first edition of The Footy Almanac was a surprise hit for sports writers and football tragic John Harms and Paul Daffey. A game-by-game collection of reflective, passionate pieces on the 2008 season by football lover... Buy or find out more →
Black Crow: The Andrew McLeod Story
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
Adelaide Crows superstar Andrew McLeod is one of the greatest AFL players of the modern era. Since his debut in the AFL in 1995, he has had a triumphant career, winning two premierships and two Norm Smith medals, and bee... Buy or find out more →
Standing Tall: Confidence, Teamwork And Learning To Lead
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Tom Harley considers himself a lucky man, having captained the Geelong Football Club to two premierships in three years. Never the club's top player, he set personal goals, working hard and pushing himself to achieve the... Buy or find out more →
The Truth Hurts
$24.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
In his extraordinary memoir, Wayne Carey goes where no Australian sportsman has gone before - telling the whole, uncensored truth about a career whose implosion was as spectacular as Carey's legendary on-field exploits. ... Buy or find out more →
The Barrackers Are Shouting: Stories Of Collingwood From The Grandstand
$9.95 – Paperback book / Sporting Links Pub
The Collingwood Football Club is the most famous sporting club in Australia. And its legions of supporters - the legendary Magpie army - are the most famous sports fans in the country. Passionate, loyal, vocal and comple... Buy or find out more →
That's What I'm Talking About
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Michael Joseph
Whether it's playing footy, hamming it up on television, or being a family man, one thing's for sure – Shane Crawford will give it his all.
When Shane Crawford debuted for Hawthorn Football Club in 1993, little did he ... Buy or find out more →