Sports Biographies and Memoirs
Standing My Ground
$29.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Matthew Hayden was one of the most commanding batsmen the game has ever seen - and one of its great enigmas.
A religious man and a ruthless on-field sledger. A brutal enforcer, and a soft-hearted family man. Australian r... Buy or find out more →
I'm Here To Win
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Headline
A unique guide revealing the motivational and practical fitness secrets of Australian and world-class champion, Chris 'Macca' McCormark.
For a decade, Australia's Chris 'Macca' McCormack has dominated the world's biggest... Buy or find out more →
Brett Lee: My Life
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Ebury Press
Brett Lee is known throughout the cricketing world as one of the fastest and most exciting pace bowlers to play the game. Intimidating while charming, decent yet ferocious, he is known for his quick-one liners as much as... Buy or find out more →
In The Best Interests Of The Game: The Darrell Hair Story
$35.00 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
In the fourth Test between England and Pakistan at The Oval in 2006, Darrell Hair′s observations and charges of ball tampering against Pakistan led to the visitors refusing to continue the game.What followed more befits ... 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 →
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 World Game
$35.00 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
Les Murray is Australia's most respected expert on football. In The World's Game he draws upon his many years of watching, critiquing and reporting on football around the world and shares his greatest moments. An enterta... Buy or find out more →
No Angel: The Secret Life Of Bernie Ecclestone
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Faber
Private, mysterious and some say sinister, 79 year-old Bernie Ecclestone criss-crosses the globe in his private jet mixing with celebrities, statesmen and sporting heroes. Ecclestone's success has not just been to create... 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 →
Peter Brock: Road To Glory
$49.99 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
A dramatic look at Peter Brock's life - in particular the period which fashioned his character, created the legend and made him a household name in Australia - as told by people who knew him from the start.
Long regarded... Buy or find out more →
Sphere Of Influence: Writings On Cricket And Its Discontents
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
This insightful collection brings the struggle to save cricket's soul into sharp and disturbing focus.
In the last three years, cricket has changed more completely than in the preceding three decades, revolutionised by a... Buy or find out more →
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger is a book full of inspirational anecdotes from Australian A-league football star Archie Thompson.
What does it take to become a success? How can setbacks make you stronger? Where ... 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Skaifey
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Ebury Press
Autobiography of the most successful driver in Australian motorsport history
He is the most successful driver in Australian motorsport history. One of the icons of the sport, ultimately a Holden hero after starting his c... Buy or find out more →
Johnny Lewis: The Biography
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
He's the best loved man in Australian boxing - from training Jeff Fench and Kostya Tszyu to touring with the Kangaroos and appearing on talk back with Alan Jones, Johnny Lewis looms large in Australian sporting life. Thi... 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 →
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 →
Standing My Ground
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Michael Joseph
MATTHEW HAYDEN was one of the most commanding batsmen the game has ever seen - and one of its great enigmas. A devout Catholic, and a ruthless on-field sledger. A brutal enforcer, and a soft-hearted family man. Australia... Buy or find out more →
True Spirit
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Orion
“When I was young I was pretty much afraid of everything. I wish I could say when it was that I went from being that quiet little girl, tagging along behind the others, to the girl who set off to sail around the world be... Buy or find out more →