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  • The Kop

    £25.00

    This work examines how and why the Kop became the globally-renowned stand it is today. It is told through the eyes of Brian Reade, an award-winning journalist, author and Anfield regular for 60 years, the majority spent on the Kop where he is still a season-ticket holder. In that time he has witnessed, and written about, all the highs and lows of Britain’s most successful football club. Reade traces the Kop’s history back to the South African hill it was named after and unearths astonishing parallels between that ‘acre of massacre’ in which Merseyside soldiers were killed and the Hillsborough Disaster almost a century later.

  • PRE-ORDER (ready for our evening with Andrew Downie) – Epic: The Many Lives of Pelé

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    Pelé was one of the most iconic sports figures of the 20th century and along with Muhammad Ali its most beloved. His achievements speak for themselves: aged just 17, he led Brazil to its first world title, scoring six times in three games; he remains the only player to have won the World Cup three times; his astonishing record of more than 1,200 goals has never been surpassed. But numbers only tell half the story. In ‘Epic’, veteran football correspondent Andrew Downie delves deep into Pelé’s life. Through interviews with former teammates, coaches, business managers, close friends, and family members, Downie uncovers the man behind the myth.

  • Harry Kane

    £20.00

    Harry Kane wasn’t supposed to become one of the world’s best strikers. Released, doubted and repeatedly sent out on loan as a teenager, he fought his way to the top through determination, hard work and an unshakable belief in his own ability. The result? A career packed with goals, records and historic achievements. From his childhood in north-east London to becoming England’s all-time leading scorer, Harry Kane’s journey is a story of talent, resilience and relentless ambition. This definitive biography tells the complete story of England’s captain and record goal scorer, from his early years and breakthrough at Tottenham Hotspur, becoming a World Cup Golden Boot winner and national hero, to his big money move to Bayern Munich and his continued quest for glory on football’s biggest stages.

  • The Times Golf Courses of the World

    £30.00

    Discover the world's finest golf courses and the legendary stories behind them

    From the historic ‘home of golf’ at St Andrews to the breathtaking cliffs of Pebble Beach, this comprehensive guide showcases the finest golf courses the world has to offer.

  • Sir Alex Ferguson

    £22.00

    UNITED’S GREATEST MANAGER – TOLD LIKE NEVER BEFORE

  • The Times Sporting Legends

    £16.99

    A must-read collection for all sports fans

    Step into the exhilarating world of legendary athletes with this collection of obituaries from The Times.

  • The Formula

    £12.99

    For decades in America, car racing meant NASCAR, and to a lesser extent IndyCar, with Formula 1 – the wealthiest racing league in the world – a distant third. Fast forward to 2023, and F1 has emerged at the front of the pack powered by a passionate yet nascent American fanbase. The F1 juggernaut has arrived, but this chequered flag was far from inevitable. In ‘The Formula’, Wall Street Journal reporters Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg tell the epic story of how F1 saved itself from collapse and finally conquered America through guile, fearlessness and, above all, reinvention.

  • Eric Cantona’s 82 Goals

    £12.99

    Eric Cantona is an enduring enigma. No Frenchman in the past 50 years has so successfully captured the British imagination. In scintillating essays that bring to life Cantona’s wild swings – on what felt like a weekly basis – between hero and villain, this idiosyncratic catalogue of the footballer’s 82 goals for Manchester United, describing the matches in which each goal was scored, is a close-up portrait of an unparalleled artist which takes the reader back to some of footballing’s most cherished moments. Manchester United was dominating English football during this period, a run of success which began with their first league title in 26 years during the 1992-3 season. Inspiring younger players such as Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs and David Beckham, Cantona was, and remains, an iconic figure, known for his style and effortless grace, his French flair and his unwavering, unapologetic non-conformity.

  • Kylian Mbappe

    £25.00

    Julien Laurens, the world’s leading French football journalist, paints a vivid portrait of Mbappé’s meteoric rise to global stardom. After a decade covering Kylian’s career, Julien has had unprecedented access to the player, his inner circle, his coaches, teammates and family. Exploring Mbappé’s humble upbringing in the suburbs of Paris and schooling at the famed Clairefontaine academy, his peerless rise with AS Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain, as well as his dream move to Real Madrid where his career has reached new heights, this extensive biography crafts an intimate account of Kylian’s life. Julien takes us into the inner workings of Mbappé’s psyche, as we witness how becoming a world superstar at just 19 affected the young Parisian.

  • Killing Maradona

    £22.00

    Maradona was football’s ultimate genius – a magician on the pitch whose talent rivalled only Pelé. But off the field, the boy from the barrios of Buenos Aires became entangled in a dark web of criminal influence and personal demons. From the Cali Cartel’s attempts to lure him into the drug trade, to the Camorra’s grip on his life in Naples; from clashes with the Italian government to Pablo Escobar’s sinister hospitality, Maradona’s life was a battleground far beyond football. Battling addiction, betrayal, and exploitation, Maradona’s story is one of genius corrupted – a man caught between adulation and self-destruction, whose medical neglect and FBI scrutiny culminated in a tragic end. Marking the 40th anniversary of Argentina’s legendary 1986 World Cup victory, ‘Killing Maradona’ is a searing investigation into the forces that destroyed football’s first ‘Golden Boy’.

  • Test Cricket

    £16.99

    The first narrative history of Test cricket as it nears its 150th birthday, telling the story of how the game has evolved since 1877, told through the moments and personalities that have shaped the format.

  • Bruce Lee

    £7.99
  • League of Football Legends

    £28.00

    Just in time for the World Cup, illustrator and graphic designer Mahamadou Traoré offers us an immersive, image-rich dive into the league of football legends. From young prodigies to cunning strategists, intrepid attackers, ‘bad boys’, or goalkeepers with ‘iron gloves’, rediscover more than 80 football legends, imagined in their superhero guises.

  • Rory

    £25.00

    A major new biography of Rory McIlory from Alan Shipnuck, the New York Times bestselling author. 

  • The formula

    £10.99

    For decades in America, car racing meant NASCAR, and to a lesser extent IndyCar, with Formula 1 – the wealthiest racing league in the world – a distant third. Fast forward to 2023, and F1 has emerged at the front of the pack powered by a passionate yet nascent American fanbase. The F1 juggernaut has arrived, but this checkered flag was far from inevitable. In ‘The Formula’, Wall Street Journal reporters Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg tell the epic story of how F1 saved itself from collapse and finally conquered America through guile, fearlessness and, above all, reinvention.