A Thoroughly Unhelpful History of Australian Sport by Titus O'Reily
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
When it comes to sport, Australians are mad. Completely, irrationally insane. It's the closest thing we have to a culture. From Don Bradman's singular focus to Steven Bradbury's heroic not falling over, sport has shaped our sense of self.But how did we get here? Part history, part social commentary and ...Show more
A Sporting Chance: Australian Sporting Scandals and the Path to Redemption by Titus O'Reily
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sport
In sport, the term 'good bloke' doesn't mean what it says. Like 'fun run', it often actually means exactly the opposite.Titus O'Reily, the sports historian Australia neither needs nor deserves, examines why our nation's sportspeople are so readily forgiven for doing terrible things.With ridiculous tales ...Show more
Cheat: The not-so-subtle art of conning your way to sporting glory by Titus O'Reily
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Where there's sport, there's cheating. No sport is immune; athletics, swimming, rugby, American Football, cricket, baseball, badminton, motorsports, tennis and curling. Yes, even that sport on the ice with brooms. Almost as soon as humans started playing sport competitively, they started to cheat. They ...Show more
Favourite Cricket Yarns: Expanded and Updated by Ken Piesse
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sport
From laughs and legends to sledges and stuff-ups.
Eleven Bats: A Story of Combat, Cricket and the SAS by Anthony 'Harry' Moffitt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Anthony 'Harry' Moffitt spent more than twenty years in the SAS. His decades of service and his multiple tours in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan made him one of the regiment's most experienced and recognised figures. Alongside the SAS, Harry's other lifetime love is cricket. An improvised game of cr ...Show more
She Surf by Hill Lauren L
$79.99 AUD
$82.50 (3% off)
Category: Sport
Join the celebration of the diverse, vibrant, and engaged community of women riding and making waves around the globe. While surfing is usually seen as a male domain, women have long been nurturing their own water stories and claiming their rightful place in the world of this sport. She Surf hails the f ...Show more
Icons of Footy by Kevin Sheedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Footy legend Kevin Sheedy crosses team alliances to profile the 21 most iconic Aussie Rules players and coaches of his lifetime. He also sits down for interviews with nine icons he has long admired and who don’t normally (for various reasons) have their stories told. Packed full of wisdom and wit, insig ...Show more
Golden Daze: The best years of Australian surfing by Sean Doherty
$45.00 AUD
Category: Sport
Australia's best surf writer brings to life the wild, bold, brave story of Australian surfing from the 60s to the present through the stories of Surfing Australia's Hall of Fame surfers and contemporary surfing legends. Golden Daze is a compelling memoir of Australian surfing through a year in the life ...Show more
The Death of Fitzroy Football Club: The Story of Fitzroy's Demise in the Words of the Men and Women Who Lost Their Club by Russel Holmesby
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The Death of Fitzroy Football Club is an oral history, outlining the reasons why Fitzroy FC, one of the founding clubs of the VFL in 1896, lost its way and eventually was merged with the Brisbane Bears. The book covers the spread of years from the seventies, through a period when the club was strong on ...Show more
Australia's Game: The History of Australian Football by Matthew Nicholson, Bob Stewart, Greg de Moore, Rob Hess
$60.00 AUD
Category: Sport
Australia's Game is the definitive history of Australian football, tracing the evolution of the game from its earliest, rudimentary forms - in the period preceding the first recorded game, in 1858 - to the totally professional game of the modern era. The authors, all passionate about the history of Aus ...Show more
1989: the Great Grand Final by Tony Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The 1989 Grand Final between Hawthorn and Geelong is considered one of the greatest of all. Hawthorn, seeking to go back-to-back for the first time was against a Geelong team that had not been in a Grand Final since 1967. The match had everything: unbridled violence, high scoring, Gary Ablett's nine goa ...Show more
Winx: The Authorised Biography: The Full Story of the World’s Best Racehorse by Andrew Rule
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Winx joins Phar Lap and Bradman in the history books: a national sporting idol and the world's best racehorse.Australia's world champion racehorse Winx has become a sporting giant, transcending racing in the same way that Muhammad Ali transcends boxing and Bradman transcends cricket. She is described by ...Show more