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The Plan: How Fletcher and Flower Transformed English Cricket

by Steve James

In 1999, England slumped to a new low in their tumultuous cricket history. Defeat at home by a mediocre New Zealand team saw them fall to the bottom of the world Test rankings, below even Zimbabwe. Yet only...

Loverboy: A Novel

by Michele Jaffe

LOVER BOY IS DYING TO COME OUT AND PLAY.

The rules: Two weeks before he intends to slowly and sadistically kill his prey, Loverboy sends a collage of the future crime scene to the FBI. If the agents can solve...

Huge: A Novel

by James Fuerst

Life hasn’t been easy for Eugene “Huge” Smalls.

Sure, his IQ is off the charts, but that doesn’t help much when you’re growing up in the 1980s in a dreary New Jersey town where your bad reputation...

Time Of Arrival

by Susan Sallis

It is 1951, and the 8.45 from Bristol to Paddington is preparing to leave. Albert, the driver - whose father and grandfather before him worked on the railway - says goodbye to his wife with mixed feelings. Their...

The Top One Hundred Pasta Sauces

by Diane Seed

The Top One Hundred Pasta Sauces is a classic Italian cook book that has sold over a million copies and been translated into 12 languages. For this charming addition Diane Seed has fully revised the recipes,...

Sweetness

by Torgny Lindgren

No doubt about it, Lindgren has joined the ranks of the greatest writers" Michel Crepu, La Croix

The woman had come from a city in the south to lecture in a small village amid the snowbound forests of northern...

Lime's Photograph

by Leif Davidsen

Peter Lime is trained to hunt down his prey and catch them on film. But now he is the one being hunted. Whose prey has he become? And what is it that he has that these people will kill to get? Lime is a Danish...

Savage!: The Robbie Savage Autobiography

by Robbie Savage & Janine Self

Robbie Savage could have been just another Manchester United reject. Instead, he used the Old Trafford scrapheap as a springboard to become one of the most instantly recognisable footballers in the Premier League,...

Three Lions Versus the World: England's World Cup Stories from the Men Who Were There

by Mark Pougatch

***FOREWORD BY FABIO CAPELLO***

Since their first appearance in the competition in 1950, England's World Cup story has been one of broken dreams, bad luck, shock losses and penalty nightmares, with one shining...

The Horses of Follyfoot

by Monica Dickens

Dora is invited out to America to help set up a home of rest for horses. When she leaves and is given a horse to take back to Follyfoot, she can't believe her luck. But once they're home things start to go badly...

Dora at Follyfoot

by Monica Dickens

The Colonel, owner of Follyfoot, the Home of Rest for Horses, has been ill and has to go away to convalesce. Dora and Steve are left in charge, with the strict instruction, 'Don't buy any horses'. But when Dora...

Nobody Beats Us: The Inside Story of the 1970s Wales Rugby Team

by David Tossell

In the 1970s, an age long before World Cups, rugby union to the British public meant Bill McLaren, rude songs and, most of all, Wales. Between 1969 and 1979, the men in red shirts won or shared eight Five Nations...

Be a Winner: Achieve Your Goals with Scotland's Sporting Heroes

by The Scottish Institute of Sport Foundati, Richard Orr & Kenny Kemp

Scotland needs more winners - all kinds of winners - in sport and in life. And with the Olympics heading to London and the Commonwealth Games coming to Glasgow, we now have the major catalysts to inspire us...

The GAA: An Oral History

by John Scally

For 125 years, the GAA has been a fixed point in a fast-changing age, and this oral history marks the125th anniversary of the Association. It is the story of the GAA as seen through the eyes of those key personalities...

A Load of Balls: Football's Funny Side

by John Scally

As former England striker and television pundit Jimmy Greaves famously said, football is 'a funny old game'. In A Load of Balls: Football's Funny Side, John Scally confirms the truth of his statement by providing...

Odd-Shaped Balls: Mischief-Makers, Miscreants and Mad-Hatters Of Rugby

by John Scally

Rugby is not a game for those who think that centres are what you find in a box of Black Magic or who confuse Jonah Lomu with Joanna Lumley. At the same time, it is not a game for the bright: what kind of tortured...

Servant of the Underworld: Obsidian & Blood, Book 1

Obsidian and Blood trilogy #1

by Aliette De Bodard

IT IS THE YEAR ONE-KNIFE IN TENOCHTITLAN - THE CAPITAL OF THE AZTECS. The end of the world is kept at bay only by the magic of human sacrifice. A Priestess disappears from an empty room drenched in blood. ...

Legends of Irish Rugby: Forty Golden Greats

by John Scally

Based on exclusive interviews with 40 celebrated players, past and present, Legends of Irish Rugby is a veritable who's who of the sport.

Immortals such as Jack Kyle, Willie John McBride, Tony Ward, Brian O'Driscoll,...

Lions of Ireland: A Celebration of Irish Rugby Legends

by David Walmsley

Look for a Lions legend and the chances are you will find an Irishman. Throughout the touring team's history, the heroes of Irish rugby have been at the heart of the Lions' finest hours - on and off the pitch....

The Still Single Papers: The Fearless Musings of a Romantic Adventurer Aged Thirty-Two-and-a-Half

by Alison Taylor

Still Single should be a marital status all of its own.

Single girls today are smarter, stronger and funnier, and journalist Alison Taylor is the witty voice for this new generation who are looking for 'the...