A Sporting Chance by Titus O'Reily
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
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 tale ...Show more
Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming by Karen Eva Carr
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Shifting Currents is an original and comprehensive history of swimming. It examines the tension that arose when non-swimming northerners met African and Southeast Asian swimmers. Using archaeological, textual, and art-historical sources, Karen Eva Carr shows how the water simultaneously attracted and re ...Show more
Wheels of Steele by Steele Bishop
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
No sport excited Steele Bishop as much as cycling. At 13, something urged him to go for greatness. He abandoned all other sports and was determined to be a great cyclist. After two decades, he became champion of the world, not before retiring early and being lured back by money, and not selling out in t ...Show more
Icons of Footy by Kevin Sheedy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
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
Patty Mills Beyond Basketball by Boti Nagy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
Patty Mills is the first book exploring the Indigenous Australian athlete and trail blazer -- the first Indigenous Australian to win an NBA Championship in 2014 with the San Antonio Spurs. He continues to break records and inspire with his achievements, all of which are covered in this tribute to the ex ...Show more
Knot It! The ultimate Guide to Mastering 100 Essential Outdoor & Fishing Knots by John Sherry Jr.
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
Master 100 essential outdoor knots with help from John Sherry, the world's leading knot-tying educator Based on the wildly successful Pro-Knot cards and Sherry's own NetKnots.com website, Knot It is an unprecedented resource for novices and masters alike. Full-color pages clearly illustrate knot-tying i ...Show more
Immortals of Australian Surfing by Phil Jarrett
$39.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
The Immortals of Australian Surfing celebrates our greatest ever board-riders. It takes the Immortals concept used elsewhere in sport and applies it to the surfing, choosing the best of the best from over 50 years of the local scene and the world tour. Renowned surfing writer Phil Jarrratt selects his ...Show more
Mike Colman on Sport (Introduction by Trent Dalton) by Mike Colman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
Few if any Australian journalists have mastered the art of long-form sports writing better than Mike Colman. Trent Dalton, author of the mega-seller Boy Swallows Universe, knows this too well, having worked alongside Colman for years at the Brisbane Courier-Mail. Dalton jumped at the chance to introduce ...Show more
Miracle In The Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home by Nando Parrado
$23.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence. Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed somewhe ...Show more
Rod Marsh: The Illustrated Autobiography by Rod Marsh
$37.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
Few Australians have given more to cricket than Rodney William Marsh, one of the most competitive players to wear the Baggy Green. Australia s youngest ever wicketkeeper played 96 Tests, set a world record of 355 dismissals and stood at the heart of the legendary Australian Test team of the 1970s and ea ...Show more
Immortals of Australian Horse Racing by Alan Whiticker
$42.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
Track enthusiasts endlessly debate the question of who are the best racehorses across different eras.
Joel Selwood: All In by Joel Selwood
$49.99 AUD
Category: Sport and Fitness
In his long-awaited, official autobiography, All In, Joel Selwood reveals the grit, determination, and personal sacrifice behind his AFL success at the Geelong Football Club. Joel Selwood's remarkable leadership is well-known across AFL football. Announcing his retirement at the end of the 2022 season, ...Show more