Gentleman's Guide to Calculating Winning Bets, A

Humor & Entertainment

Graham Sharpe

Puzzles & Games

High Stakes Publishing

The Book of Bizarre Football

History

Robson Books Ltd.

The average racing book gives you statistics and information about racehorses, racecourses, trainers and jockeys; and tells you about riding a Derby or Grand National winner, becoming champion jockey, backing loads of winners, and how beautiful horses are. Graham Sharpe's latest racing book will tell you how Winston Churchill rode in a fixed race; how Henry Cecil's house was used as a cannabis factory; that Jenny Pitman's husband's pet name for her is 'Waggle Bum'; and, how the burglar who raided and robbed John McCririck's house then rang him up to taunt him. These, and literally hundreds of other strange stories about racing make up the perfect companion volume to Sharpe's best-selling "500 Strangest Racing Stories". In fact, no-one with even a passing interest in the Sport of Kings will be able to resist delving into the pages of Kiwis, Canaries and Monkeys to discover just how deeply odd, nay strange, the world of racing can be. As well as kiwis, canaries and monkeys there are tales of bulls, whales, dogs, pigs, seagulls, locusts and many more getting mixed up with racing - what more could anyone wish for in a racing book?

Kiwis, Canaries and Monkeys: 500 Extraordinary Racing Stories

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

Raceform/Racing Post

William Hill: The Man and the Business

This is the story of how a working class boy born into a family of 13 children in pre-First World War, Peaky Blinders-Birmingham grew up to revolutionise the world of betting and bookmaking. William Hill beat the odds by starting out as a teenage  one-man band making the rounds of  Birmingham's factories, pubs and clubs on  his second-hand motorbike taking penny, tuppence and tanner bets. He went on to launch a fixed odds football betting business which took a total of GBP6 18/6d in its first week,but grew to a multi-million pound turnover before being almost taxed into extinction. However, today, William Hill, whose first London office was opened in 1934, and staffed by just William and one clerk, is a truly global bookmaker, with offices in nine countries; operating across 19 time zones, is a FTSE 100 company, has over 2,500 betting shops and employs nearly 20,000 people.

Mihir Bose

Raceform Ltd

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