Chess for Children by Murray Chandler, Helen Milligan
$32.00 NZD
Category: Sport general
With this charming book, children will delight in learning the basic moves of chess - the most popular and challenging strategy game of all. All the rules of chess are clearly explained, step by step, assuming no prior knowledge. The lessons are reinforced by the inventive tales that George is told by h ...Show more
Cricket: The Game of Life: Every Reason to Celebrate by Scyld Berry
$30.00 NZD
Category: Sport general
Scyld Berry draws on his experiences as a cricket writer of forty years to produce new insights and unfamiliar historical angles on the game, along with moving reflections on episodes from his own life. The author covers a range of themes including cricket in different areas of the world, and abstract c ...Show more
Driven: My Story by Hayden Paddon
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sport general | Reading Level: near fine
Hayden Paddon was just a boy growing up in Geraldine - in love with racing and dreaming big. Starting with nothing, and wholly determined to beat the odds, he set out on a remarkable 20-year pathway to the World Rally Championship, where he footed it with the best rally drivers on the planet. But it did ...Show more
Everything to Play For The QI Book of Sports by James Harkin, Anna Ptasynski
$33.00 NZD
Category: Sport general
The most improbable, fascinating and endlessly entertaining sporting facts and stories, from prehistory to the present day.
F1 Confidential Inside Stories from the World of Formula One by Giles Richards
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sport general
An access-all-areas look inside the thrilling world of Formula One. Formula One is one of the most intense, complex and secretive sports on the planet. Recent documentaries such as Netflix’s Drive to Survive series have given a glimpse of life inside the paddock, but there are so many more stories from ...Show more
Federer - The Definitive Biography by Chris Bowers
$27.99 NZD
Category: Sports Biography
The outstanding English-language biography of the great Swiss star, arguably the greatest tennis player of all time, now exhaustively revised and updated.
Finding Gobi - The True Story of a Little Dog with a Lot of Stamina by Dion Leonard
$20.00 NZD
Category: Sport general
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER Like A Streecat Named Bob before it, Finding Gobi is a truly heart-warming story for animal lovers worldwide... In 2016, Dion Leonard, a seasoned ultramarathon runner, unexpectedly stumbled across a little stray dog while competing in a gruelling 155 mile race across the ...Show more
Four Wheels and a Board: The Smithsonian History of Skateboarding by Betsy Gordon, Jane Rogers
$70.00 NZD
Category: Sport general
A bold look at the creative, controversial, and vibrant history of skateboarding, and the amazing skaters who continually reinvent itSkateboarding isn't just a recreational activity, but a professional sport, lifestyle, art form, and cultural phenomenon. The striking book Four Wheels and a Board capture ...Show more
Gordon Bennett and the First Yacht Race Across the Atlantic by Sam Jefferson
$37.00 NZD
Category: Sport general
The 1866 transatlantic yacht race was a match that saw three yachts battle their way across the Atlantic in the dead of winter in pursuit of a $90,000 prize. Six men died in the brutal and close-fought contest, and the event changed the perception of yachting from a slightly effete gentlemen's pursuit i ...Show more
How to Play Your Best Golf: Strategies From a Tour Pro by Nick O'Hern
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sport general
Strategic Golf is the essential golf handbook to help any golfer understand and improve their game. In this guide, highly respected pro golfer Nick O'Hern takes you through the strategies to golfing success. He reveals the key secrets of professional golfers, discusses how playing to your strengths can ...Show more
Into the Planet - My Life As a Cave Diver by Jill Heinerth
$60.00 NZD
Category: Sport general
From one of the world's most renowned cave divers comes a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths of the oceans and the sunken caves inside the planet.
Le Coq: A Journey to the Heart of French Rugby by Peter Bills
$50.00 NZD
Category: Sport general | Reading Level: very good
A definitive and affectionate history of French rugby published to coincide with the 6 Nations in Feb 2023 and France hosting the Rugby World Cup in Sept/Oct 2023 From French rugby's origins in Le Havre, (as an English export in the late nineteenth century) to the Catalan coast, acclaimed rugby writer P ...Show more