The Matilda Effect by Fiona Crawford
35.00 AUD
Category: Sport
From the journey to just play to the fight for the world cup The Matilda Effect is the exciting, inspiring, sometimes infuriating and always colourful story of the Australian women's football (soccer) team, the Matildas, and their ultimately successful struggle, alongside other women from around the wor ...Show more
Mike Colman on Sport (Introduction by Trent Dalton) by Mike Colman
34.95 AUD
Category: Sport
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
Best and Fairest Sports Parenting by Nathan Burke
32.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Every parent wants to do the right thing by their sports-playing children. The problem is thatno-one tells us exactly what the 'right thing' is.Sure, we get bombarded with a list of things not to do, and we receive basic instructions onhow to behave-stay quiet, understand this is not professional sport, ...Show more
Formula One Down Under: Australian Grand Prix history by .
39.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The Australian Grand Prix is the crown jewel of local motorsport, it's also the gold standard by which Formula One GPs are judged. Each year since 1985 the Formula One circus has pitched its tent in Australia for an annual round of the World Championship. Formula One was an immediate hit in Adelaide, sp ...Show more
Revolution: Ange Postecoglou: Close Up on Australia's Greatest Ever Football Manager by John Greechan
34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
When Ange Postecoglou checked-in at Celtic Park he faced a momentous task as he sought to right the wrongs of a season to forget and restore the Hoops to the top of the Premier Division. Would a track record in Australian and Japanese football transfer to the unique landscape of the Scottish game? Woul ...Show more
Blue Water Classics: Portraits of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race by WILSON / PEARSON
59.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Watched by millions of people around Australia and worldwide every year on Boxing Day, the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is a 628 nautical mile passage into the depths of the southern ocean’s Roaring Forties that pushes sailors, organisers and at times, search and rescue personnel, to the limit of their ment ...Show more
Bradman vs Bodyline: The Inside Story of the Most Notorious Ashes Series in History by Roland Perry
24.99 AUD
Category: Sport
The definitive story of the most controversial chapter in the history of Australian and English cricket, the notorious Bodyline series, by Roland Perry, author of Sir Donald Bradman's authorised biography, The Don. 'Roland Perry is gloriously readable, always thoughtful.' Wisden The 1932-33 Ashes was th ...Show more
Hell for Leather: The World of a Sporting Journalist by Phil Wilkins
34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
From the 1960s until the turn of the century, Phil Wilkins was chief cricket writer in turn for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald, then The Australian and The Sun newspapers.In this autobiography, he remembers great players watched and interviewed, historic events, reviving memories of cricke ...Show more
Game of Their Lives by Nick Richardson
17.99 AUD
Category: Sport
As the Great War raged in 1916, two teams of Australian soldiers played an Australian Rules football match in London. It was the first time the world had seen our national game. But this was more than an exhibition match. It symbolised sport's role in driving young athletes to enlist and fight. The play ...Show more
Nicky Winmar: My Story by Nicky Winmar
34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
Thirty years after creating one of the most memorable moments in sporting history, Indigenous AFL legend Nicky Winmar tells his story in a moving and compelling memoir. FROM BUSH KID TO AFL LEGEND Sport is made up of moments that thrill us at the time and quickly disappear. Very few endure for deca ...Show more
Football's Forgotten Years: Reclaiming the AFL Competition’s earliest years—1870 to 1896 by Colin Carter
29.99 AUD
Category: Sport
For almost 100 years, the AFL competition has been deemed to start in 1897, the year in which eight clubs seceded from the Victorian Football Association to form the Victorian Football League. This revision of history ignores the years between 1870 and 1896 when 11 of today's AFL clubs not only partici ...Show more
Fearless: Finding the Power to Thrive by Jelena Dokic
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
How do you find hope when all is lost? How do you find strength when you feel broken? How do you find your voice when you feel worthless and scared? In Jelena Dokic’s first bestselling book, Unbreakable, the former world No. 4 revealed her incredible survival story; how she overcame adversity, poverty ...Show more