Readings Recommends: Sport Books
Legends Of Surfing
$49.99 – Hardcover book / Motorbooks
In pictures, interviews, and biographies, this big book profiles one hundred of the world’s greatest surfers.
Duke Boyd is himself a legend of surfing. He is a surfer, of course, but even better known as co-founder in ... Buy or find out more →
What Are The Odds? The Bill Waterhouse Story
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Random House
Bill Waterhouse has worked the track for more than 70 years, his first day as a bookmaker in his own name was Epsom Day 1954. Henry Waterhouse, his ancestor, brought horses to Australia with the First Fleet . This family... Buy or find out more →
For The Love
$24.95 – Paperback book / Chronicle Books
After the huge success of the Kelly Slater: For The Love last Christmas comes the new paperback edition. Since last year's release, Kelly Slater has once again won surfing's ultimate prize, the ASP Surfing World Champion... Buy or find out more →
The International Marine Book Of Sailing
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Mcgraw Hill
- At 500 pages and with 750 color images, this beautiful and ambitious volume is the largest sailing book on the market
- With hundreds of photos shot especially for the book, Robinson takes the reader from high-performance...
Captain's Diary 2009
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Few Australian cricket captains have had a tougher time than that experienced by Ricky Ponting in 2008-09 - a controversial Test tour of India, series home and away against South Africa, more than 30 ODIs, the ICC World ... Buy or find out more →
The Truth Hurts
$34.99 – Trade paperback / 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 Greatest: The Glory Years Of Australian Cricket
$15.00 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
From 1993 to 2008 the Australian cricket team reached the highest of heights. They won three world cups in a row and sixteen consecutive test matches. They continually dominated England in the Ashes, destroyed the once g... Buy or find out more →
Surf-O-Rama: Treasures Of Australian Surfing
$32.95$12.00 – Paperback book / Miegunyah Press
From the dawn of Australian surfing at Boomerang Camp, Freshwater Beach in Sydney in the summer of 1915, when the great Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku gave the first demonstration of surfboard riding on his solid timber board,... Buy or find out more →
Line And Strength: The Complete Story
$49.95$39.95 – Hardcover book / Heinemann
From working the land in Narromine to winning cricket's World Cup three times, Glenn McGrath's life has been characterised by fierce determination and an unerring will to succeed, despite the odds. Now following his reti... Buy or find out more →
Roy On The Rise: A Year Of Living Dangerously
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Hardie Grant
Never far from trouble, Andrew ‘Roy’ Symonds takes us on journey through his latest cricketing adventures. Roy on the Rise follows Symonds from victory at the 2007 Cricket World Cup tournament in the West Indies and the ... Buy or find out more →
Inside Out: Writings On Cricket Culture
$34.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
From one of the finest writers on the game comes Inside Out, Gideon Haigh's latest despatches from the crease.
In 2008, he celebrates the centenary of Bradman's birth and 75 years of Bodyline; ponders the quintessence of... Buy or find out more →
Stand Your Ground: Life And Football
$49.99 – Hardcover book / Macmillan
There is only one Kevin Sheedy, a man who occupies a unique position in Australian sport – plumber, self-described grubby little back-pocket, legendary coach, master strategist, mad professor, raconteur, world-wide promo... Buy or find out more →
Kelly Slater: For The Love
$65.00 – Hardcover book / Chronicle Books
No one knows eight-time world champion surfer Kelly Slater better than Kelly himself. In this revealing and heartfelt illustrated tribute, written with surfi ng veteran Phil Jarratt, the world’s best surfer riffs on a li... Buy or find out more →
Mr Cricket
$22.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
Cricket has been the heartbeat of Mike Hussey’s life since the age of 12, about the time that he found it more comfortable to bat left-handed than right. He adores the game, analyses it, researches it and respects it. De... Buy or find out more →
A To Z Of Bradman
$29.95 – Paperback book / Abc Books
The A-Z of Bradman is an indispensable guide for all
cricket fans and all those who recognise Sir Donald Bradman as a
great Australian.
From Aberdeen, where Bradman played his last innings in Great
Britain, to Zanetti, ... Buy or find out more →