The story of the man who started the running boom and coached Olympic champions.

Arthur Lydiard

Garth Gilmour

Biographies & Memoirs

SportsBooks

Athletics

Peter H. Matthews

Harry Potts was a manager on a par with legends like Matt Busby, Bill Shankly and Bill Nicholson. He brought unprecedented success to small-town Burnley, under the chairmanship of the notorious Bob Lord. This is his story written from his wife's point of view. It's a love story as well as a football book. Imargaret, who died in late 2009, three years after the book was published, writes bravely about the problems she suffered throughout her marriage with her husband's mother, her brushes with small-town attitudes and the love story which started in the harsh winter of 1947 when Burnley FC gave her a lift on their coach from Manchester. Dave Thomas supplies the football side of Harry Potts' career by talking to many of the men who played under him.

Harry Potts: Margaret's Story

Potts, Margaret

Lala Amarnath Life and Times: The Making of a Legend

Amarnath, Rajinder

Aintree's Queen Bee

Rimmer, Joan

Author John Carter interviewed and shadowed 14 racing personalities throughout 2007 at Newmarket, the home and headquarters of British horseracing, in a book supported by the racecourse. His subjects ranged across the racing world, from top jockey Frankie Dettori, who has also written the foreword, in a year he won his first Derby, on the Newmarket trained Authorized, to top female jockey Hayley Turner; from leading trainer Jeremy Noseda, to the clerk of the Newmarket courses Michael Prosser to its former managing director Lisa Hancock, who left to spend more time with her young family. John also talked to other members of the racing community such as bloodstock agent Tom Goff and museum curator Graham Snelling; stable girl Danni Deverson and owner Jan Harris. The book gives a fascinating glimpse into the often secret world of horseracing. One of the subjects, star photographer Trevor Jones, also supplied the photographs which are featured throughout the book.

Newmarket: A Year at the Home of Horseracing

Sports & Outdoors

john-carter

Individual Sports

Duckworth Lewis: The Method and the Men Behind It. by Frank Duckworth, Tony Lewis

Frank Duckworth,Frank Duckworrd

Allyson Felix, the cover girl of Athletics 2011, focused on running more one lap races in 2010 and in winning the overall titles in the 200m and the 400m, she became the first person ever to secure top prize in two IAAF Diamond League events in the same year. She continued her dominance by winning 21 races out of 22 starts, losing only to Veronica Campbell-Brown in New York in June. As usual the ATFS annual contains unrivalled coverage of the events of the previous year as well as chronicling the early events of 2011.

Athletics 2011: The International Track and Field Annual

Reference

Peter Matthews

Almanacs & Yearbooks

Nationwide Annual

Stuart Barnes

Nick Hurst was working in London when he threw in his job in advertising to train for four years in Malaysia and China with a kung fu grandmaster, Sugong. This book is a mix of Nick’s experiences in South-East Asia and the story of Sugong’s extraordinary life. 
Initiated into kung fu by an opium-addicted master, Sugong was expelled from school, kidnapped, and nearly killed in a family feud. All by the age of sixteen. 
He fled army conscription in China, only to be engulfed in a world of gangsters and blood-brothers in Singapore. 
Saved by a Shaolin warrior monk, his penance was eight years of fiercely-enforced temple training. 
A near-fatal fall-out with his master, love affairs, race riots and gangland vendettas all followed as he travelled through South-East Asia. 
Throughout, he struggled to adhere to martial arts’ ethics in an imperfect world. 
His story spanned fascinating periods of history of four Asian countries in war-torn 1930s China; instability in post-war Singapore; racial tension in the newly independent Malaysia; and a gangster-led Taiwan in the aftermath of its Chinese breakaway. 
The origins of Shaolin kung fu and triad organised crime are explored to provide a context to his life.

Sugong: The Life of a Shaolin Grandmaster

Nick Hurst

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