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    From the history of Irish sports to biographies of international athletics superstars, these books in our sports collection make for excellent reading. Whether you’re passionate about football, rugby, or any other sport, these books bring the drama, dedication, and triumphs of the sports world to life. Find your next great sports read at Chapters Bookstore!

    Chris Kamara: Kammy [2024] paperback

    €7.99

    THE SMASH HIT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWinner of Autobiography of the Year at the 2024 Sports Book Awards'Everyone loves Kammy . . . Full of humour and endless blunders' - The...

    Brendan Leonard: I Hate Running and You Can Too [2021] paperback

    €5.99 – €16.90

    BRENDAN LEONARD HATES RUNNING. He hates it so much that he once logged fifty-two marathon-length runs in fifty-two weeks. Now he's sharing everything he's learned about the sport so that...

    John Foot: Calcio [2007] paperback

    €7.99

    The first history of Italian football to be written in English, 'Calcio' is a mix of serious analysis and comic storytelling, with vivid descriptions of games, goals, dives, missed penalties,...

    Tim Rogers: Teach Yourself How to Run a Marathon [2006] paperback

    €3.99 – €11.99

    This is the ideal title for runners of all levels of fitness who wish to enter and compete in a marathon, but don't know quite where to start. It will...

    Chas Newkey-Burden: Running: Cheaper Than Therapy [2017] hardback

    €5.99 – €20.80

    A witty and expertly compiled compendium of running wisdom and humour.From a short jog that lifts your mood to the closing stages of a marathon when you feel physically exhausted...

    Kit Chapman: Racing Green [2023] paperback

    €6.99

    Racing Green is the story of how advances in motorsport science are changing the world, helping it become smarter and more environmentally friendly. Motor racing is already one of the...

    Gavin Newsham: John Daly [2003] hardback

    €6.99 – €24.70

    It has been said that there are only four things worth seeing in modern day golf. The first is the Augusta National Course, the home of the US Masters, second...

    James Pearce: Walk On [2025] paperback

    €9.99

    The definitive chronicle of Arne Slot's debut season as the manager of Liverpool FC, filled with exclusive interviews and unparalleled insight An engrossing and inspiring account of a new manager's...

    Richard Dunwoody: Obsessed [2000]

    €4.99

    In his long-awaited autobiography, the most successful National Hunt jockey of all time reveals what it was that took him to the top - and how he managed to stay...

    Peter Stringer: Pulling the Strings [2016] paperback

    €5.99

    The long-awaited autobiography of Ireland's most beloved rugby player: Peter StringerWhen Peter Stringer played youth rugby, he was so small that people told his parents he shouldn't be allowed on...

    Jeff Benedict: Lebron [2023] paperback

    €6.99

    The first definitive biography of basketball legend LeBron James, by the acclaimed author of Tiger Woods.LeBron is unquestionably the greatest basketball player of the 21st century. Off the court, LeBron's...

    Timothy Gallwey: The Inner Game of Tennis: The Ultimate Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance [2015] paperback

    €7.99 – €11.70

    Improve your game and discover your true potential by increasing your concentration, willpower and confidence. Described by Billie Jean King as her 'tennis bible', Timothy Gallwey's multi-million bestseller, including an...

    Asif Burhan: The Other Side Of The Hand Of God [2026]

    €32.50

    The Other Side of the Hand of God is the inside story of football's most mythologised match. On 22 June 1986, before 114,580 fans at the Estadio Azteca, Diego Maradona...

    Stephen F Kelly: Bill Shankly: It's Much More Important Than That [1997] paperback

    €6.99 – €22.10

    'Football is not just a matter of life and death: it's much more important than that' - Bill ShanklyBill Shankly was without doubt among the greatest football managers of the...

    Hurrey Adam: Extra Time Beckons, Penalties Loom [2024] hardback

    €9.99

    The long-awaited follow-up to Football Cliches, Adam Hurrey's cult classic about the language of football.Does language evolve? Yes, it does.Will it ever be acceptable for a football commentator to call...

    Andrew Downie: Doctor Socrates [2018] paperback

    €6.99

    'Compelling from start to finish...Downie does full justice to an extraordinary life' Pete Davies, author of All Played Out. A stunning new biography of Socrates, the iconic captain of the...

    Max Wadsworth: Think You Know It All? Liverpool FC [2022] paperback

    €5.99

    Put your Liverpool knowledge to the test with the ultimate quiz book for Reds fans.Do you think you know it all about Liverpool? Could you name the starting line-up in...

    Scott Jurek: Eat and Run [2013] paperback

    €6.99

    'Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster.' The words of Scott Jurek, a dominant force...

    Wayne Barton: Duncan Edwards: Eternal [2023] hardback

    €9.99

    NEVER in the history of the game has one life brought both joy and tragedy in such huge measures.Duncan Edwards was the jewel in the crown of the Busby Babes,...

    Brendan Cooper: Deep Pockets [2023]

    €8.99 – €26.00

    'A brilliant book . . . brilliantly written. You really do need to read it' Adrian Chiles'Mixing the sacred and the profane, high culture and low culture, the sublime and...

    Johan Cruyff: My Turn: The Autobiography [2017] paperback

    €16.90

    'I knew nothing about football before knowing Cruyff.' - Pep GuardiolaJohan Cruyff is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in football history. Throughout his playing career, he was...

    Mark Hodgkinson: Searching for Novak [2024] paperback

    €4.99

    'A fantastic and fascinating exploration of the life of a great champion... Full of compelling insight.' - Tom Hiddleston'This book captures the deep complexities in Novak's mind and his life...

    Moynihan Michael: More than a Game [2025]

    €3.99 – €7.99

    The GAA is more than a game. It's a cornerstone of Irish identity - woven into parishes, families and the national psyche. But behind the passion and pride lies a...

    Joel Miller: Damien Duff [2008]

    €3.99 – €10.40

    Irishman Damien Duff is one of the Premiership's most feared attacking footballers. The king of wide attacking play, he's a man of exceptional talent and frightening pace, and it's a...

    Geordan Murphy: The Outsider [2013] paperback

    €4.99 – €12.84

    Geordan Murphy does not come from the leafy suburbs of south Dublin or the rugby hotbeds of Limerick or Cork. As a teenager he played Gaelic football for Kildare minors....

    Sean Og O Ceallachain: The Dubs: Dublin GAA since the 1940s [2006] hardback

    €11.99 – €26.00

    This book traces the ups and downs of the Dublin hurling and football teams during and after World War II. With a text by the unique Sean Og O Ceallachain,...

    Tony Francis: Who Was Hurricane Higgins? [2011]

    €9.99 – €26.00

    Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins transcended sport in a way very few sportsmen ever have. In this definitive biography, Tony Francis describes how Alex threw himself into life like a man throwing...

    Katie Bo Lillis: Death of a Racehorse [2026]

    €12.99

    Named one of Financial Times's Best Books of 2025 The inside story of the crisis within the country's most classic sport-horseracing-and why money is killing thoroughbreds at the top of...

    Niall Quinn: Niall Quinn: The Autobiography [2003] paperback

    €3.99 – €12.84

    When Niall Quinn learned he was going to the 2002 World Cup with Ireland, it seemed the perfect climax to his international career. Yet even before the competition had started,...

    Mark Webber: Aussie Grit: My Formula One Journey [2016] paperback

    €4.99

    In his trademark straight-talking, no-nonsense style Mark Webber reveals his amazing life on and off the Formula One race track in Aussie Grit.Mark Webber was at the centre of one...

    Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Le Tour [2004] paperback

    €3.99

    When Henri Desgrange began a new bicycle road race in 1903, he saw it as little more than a temporary publicity stunt to promote his newspaper. The sixty cyclists who...

    Legacy: 15 Lessons in Leadership: What the All Blacks Can Teach Us About the Business of Life [2013] paperback

    €9.99

    Champions do extra. They sweep the sheds. They follow the spearhead. They keep a blue head. They are good ancestors. In Legacy, best-selling author James Kerr goes deep into the...

    Damon Hill: Watching the Wheels [2016]

    €5.99 – €21.41

    2016 marks the twentieth anniversary of Damon Hill's coronation as Formula One World Champion. For the first time ever he tells the story of his journey through the last golden...

    Dan Carter: Dan Carter: The Autobiography of an All Blacks Legend [2016] paperback

    €4.99

    Dan Carter's last game as an All Black culminated with him declared Man of the Match following the 2015 Rugby World Cup final at Twickenham - an unforgettable ending to...

    Kristof Ramon: The Art of Suffering [2024] hardback

    €10.99

    What does it take to become a road racing legend and compete in the toughest sport in the world? Go behind the scenes with the teams and riders at all...

    Katie Clapham: The Green Road Home [2026]

    €22.99

    Gloriously available again, forty years after it was first published-now with a new introduction by Brad Faxon, a new afterword by the author, and a batch of newly discovered time-capsule...

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