Gold Top: The John Lund Story

Reeves, Scott

Biographies & Memoirs

Chequered Flag Publishing

Spurs fan Adam Michie is fed up with the Premier League. Countless television hours are devoted to it and billions of pounds are spent on players. Ticket prices have rocketed, matches are hyped beyond reality and results are predictable. Something is missing. The soul of football has been lost. In search of the honest roots of the sport, Adam adopted Leyton Orient in League One. Swapping Spurs’ Champions League exploits in Madrid and Milan for Orient’s scraps with Brentford and Bournemouth, this is the side of football where the Premier League is a distant dream and financial solvency is an achievement to be proud of. ORIENTATION follows one ordinary football supporter trying to rediscover what it was that first made him fall in love with football.

Orientation

Sports & Outdoors

Michie, Adam

Soccer

In a refreshingly honest and sometimes brutal account of his life, Neil Clark reveals his personal turmoil and tough journey to the top flight of English rugby. Neil Clark might not be a household name, but he is one of the under-rated rugby players who took Exeter Chiefs to the heights of the English Premiership and the Heineken Cup. Overcoming a difficult childhood, serious injury and being released by a club that no longer wanted him, Clark was a rugby journeyman in the south-west, playing for Bristol, Bath and Cornish All Blacks before finding a home at Exeter Chiefs. There he helped the club gain promotion and began to keep a diary of his time in rugby’s top division. This is the inspiring story of how a troubled youngster became a Premiership rugby player – with real blood, gallons of sweat and plenty of tears.

It Was Never My Ambition to Become a Hooker

Clark, Neil

“I just feel that my time has come.”  When Paul Harrison uttered those words before the Formula 1 Stock Car World Final in 2011, he was about to make history. It was the culmination of a life spent trying to match his father’s achievement and wear the gold roof that signifies the World Champion.  Paul Harrison tells the story of his year as World Champion, revealing the determination and willpower that is required to remain at the top of stock car racing. From the exhilaration of victory to the pressure of performing under the gold roof, MY TIME is a unique behind-the-scenes account of this brutal motorsport.

My Time

Harrison, Paul

Miscellaneous

Keep Turning Left

Only Gold Matters: Cecil Griffiths, The Exiled Olympic Champion

Hanna, John

<p>In 1984 the nation was on high alert: miners on strike, inflation in double figures and prize racehorse Shergar was still missing.So it came as a welcome distraction when Burrough Hill Lad took to the turf and won the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Hennessy Gold Cup and King George VI Chase in one incredible year under the indomitable Jenny Pitman, becoming one of the finest steeplechasers of all time.Yet the man behind Burrough Hill Lad’s success was a quietly spoken farmer from a small village in Leicestershire. Stan Riley risked it all to take his place in history and shake hands with royalty. His steely determination mirrored that of his magnificent horse. Neither would give up. There was only one way to live, and that was to win. But it came at a price.Written with exclusive access to Stan Riley and his personal archive of Burrough Hill Lad memorabilia, this is the inspiring story of how one man and his magnificent horse rose from an impoverished background to take on the wealthy world of horse racing – and win.</p>

Burrough Hill Lad: The Making of a Champion Racehorse

Riddington, Max

Naden, Gavan

Individual Sports

The Father of Modern Sport: The Life and Times of Charles W Alcock

Booth, Keith

Kings of the Oval

Gretna football club’s rapid rise was breathtaking. Bankrolled by millionaire Brooks Mileson, it looked like the only way was up. Elected to the Scottish Third Division in 2002, the club won three successive promotions, reached the Premier League, featured in the Scottish Cup Final and earned the right to play in the UEFA Cup.  It all came crashing down when Mileson’s funds dried up. Within months, creditors circled the dying club, which was dissolved in 2008. The fall was as spectacular as the rise.  Yet that was not the end for football in this plucky border town. Gretna FC 2008 – a new, community-based club – rose like a phoenix from the ashes.  Written by the first chairman of Gretna 2008, In Black and White traces the astonishing story of Gretna FC in the Mileson era and provides an insider’s account of the rebirth of Gretna football.

In Black and White: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Gretna Football

Hodge, Anton

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