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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!

    Paul McCarthy: Fever Pitch [2023] paperback

    €5.99

    THE INCREDIBLE FIRST 12 YEARS OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE AS TOLD BY THE LEGENDS WHO WERE THERE'I met Jack Nicholson and when a Hollywood superstar asks about Manchester United, you...

    Frederic Delavier: Delavier's Anatomy for Bigger, Stronger Arms [2012] paperback

    €14.99

    Delavier's Anatomy for Bigger, Stronger Arms is your guide to the massive biceps, triceps, and forearms you've always wanted. Over 330 full-color photos and 130 anatomical illustrations allow you to...

    Oatmeal: The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances [2014] paperback

    €6.99

    This is not just a book about running. It's a book about cupcakes. It's a book about suffering. It's a book about gluttony, vanity, bliss, electrical storms, ranch dressing, and...

    Michael Bisping: Quitters Never Win [2020] paperback

    €8.99€18.56

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSome people are born to be a certain thing.And I was a born fighter.At the age of eight, Michael Bisping began his training in martial arts. By...

    Robert Edelman: Spartak Moscow [2009] hardback

    €59.99€112.86

    In the informative, entertaining, and generously illustrated Spartak Moscow, a book that will be cheered by soccer fans worldwide, Robert Edelman finds in the stands and on the pitch keys...

    Phil Taylor: Staying Power [2015] paperback

    €5.99

    Phil 'The Power' Taylor is the uncontested king of darts, his sixteen world championship titles between 1990 and 2013 far outclassing anything else the game has seen.He started out as...

    Various: Hell for Leather [2014] hardback

    €12.99€14.99

    Hurling's appeal has never been stronger. Redefined in the past decade by a great Kilkenny team, rejuvenated by Clare's 2013 All-Ireland coup and re-energised by Dublin's grassroots' revolution, the game...

    Donald McRae: In Black and White [2002] hardback

    €4.99€24.99

    The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last...

    Bob Rotella: How Champions Think [2016] paperback

    €5.99€10.99

    Acclaimed sports psychologist Bob Rotella has advised everyone from professional golfers to NBA superstars to business executives on how to flourish under pressure and overcome challenges. "Rotella's philosophy is astonishingly...

    John Giles: The Great and the Good [2013] paperback

    €5.99

    In The Great and the Good, Ireland's leading football pundit and legend of the game John Giles looks back on more than fifty years of football, at developments in the...

    Hulk Hogan: My Life Outside the Ring [2010] hardback

    €6.99

    Hulk Hogan, born Terry Bollea, burst onto the professional wrestling scene in the late seventies and went on to become a world wrestling champion many times over. From humble beginnings,...

    Tim Noakes: Challenging Beliefs [2012] paperback

    €5.99€21.41

    Tim Noakes is one of the world's leading authorities on the science behind sport and a successful sportsman in his own right. Through a lifetime of research, he has developed...

    Lance Armstrong: Every Second Counts [2004] paperback

    €2.99€12.84

    In 1999, Lance Armstrong made world headlines with the most stunning comeback in the history of sport after battling against life-threatening testicular cancer just eighteen months before returning to professional...

    David Scarfe: The Wild Book [2017] hardback

    €6.99€7.99

    Let a little wildness in. Adventure is closer than you think. A lavishly illustrated celebration of the wonders that await in the outside world; the perfect gift for fans of...

    Tom Isitt: Riding in the Zone Rouge [2020] paperback

    €5.99

    'An evocatively thoughtful wider history of the race, the war and the peace' GUARDIAN'Occasionally funny and regularly poignant, brilliantly focused in its research . . . His drive, wit and...

    Sospiro Guido Di: The Metaphysics of Ping-Pong [2013] hardback

    €9.99€16.90

    LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK AWARD 2013 To spin or not to spin? - that is the metaphysical question.When a mortifying defeat to his teenage son rekindles his...

    Guillem Balague: Brave New World [2018] paperback

    €2.99

    The Sunday Times BestsellerThe exclusive behind-the-scenes story of the Mauricio Pochettino revolution at Spurs, told in his own wordsSince joining the club in 2014, Mauricio Pochettino has transformed Tottenham from...

    Guillem Balague: Cristiano Ronaldo [2016] paperback

    €4.99

    The definitive biography of Cristiano Ronaldo, named Football Book of the Year at the Cross Sports Book Awards 2016Fully updated to include the 2015-16 seasonCristiano Ronaldo is one of the...

    Guillem Bslsgue: Cristiano Ronaldo [2015] hardback

    €4.99

    WINNER OF FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2016CRISTIANO RONALDO is one of the greatest footballers of all time, yet for all his success on...

    John Mcenroe: But Seriously [2017] hardback

    €6.99

    He is one of the most controversial sportsmen in history and a legend of Open Era tennis. But after reaching the top of his game - what came next? A...

    David Millar: Racing Through the Dark [2012] paperback

    €4.99€6.99

    The SUNDAY TIMES bestselling memoir from the Tour de France cyclist who lifts the lid on his drug use and return to sport.By his eighteenth birthday David Millar was living...

    Ruby Walsh: Ruby: The Autobiography [2010] hardback

    €4.99

    Ruby Walsh is a phenomenon. The only jockey to have won all four of the home Grand Nationals, Ruby's racing life is the stuff of dreams. A charming, much-loved sports...

    Steve Hodge: The Man With Maradona's Shirt [2010] hardback

    €6.99

    This is not a straightforward autobiography, it's a snapshot of a vanished era of football, based on meticulously kept diaries. The eighties and the early nineties was the last era...

    David Owen: Foinavon [2014] paperback

    €5.99

    It was the upset to end all upsets. On 8 April 1967 at Aintree racecourse in Liverpool, a 100-1 outsider in peculiar blinkers sidestepped chaos extraordinary even by the Grand...

    Michael Hutchinson: Faster [2014] paperback

    €6.99

    For professional cyclists, going faster and winning are, of course, closely related. Yet surprisingly, for many, a desire to go faster is much more important than a desire to win....

    Tony Collins: The Oval World [2015] hardback

    €9.99

    Rugby has always been a sport with as much drama off the field as on it. For every thrilling last-minute Jonny Wilkinson drop-goal to win the World Cup or Jonah...

    Jimmy Burns: Maradona [2010] paperback

    €4.99

    Diego Maradona, is arguably the greatest and certainly the most widely-known footballer of the modern age. During his tempestuous career he played for top clubs in South America and Europe,...

    Christopher Yates: A Passion for Angling [1993] hardback

    €9.99

    Published to tie in with a BBC2 television series, this is the story of the piscatorial adventures of Chris Yates and Bob James, accompanied by film-maker Hugh Miles. With high...

    Judy Murray: Knowing the Score [2018] paperback

    €7.99€15.70

    The Sunday Times bestsellerJudy Murray provides the ultimate insight into life with her tennis champion sons Andy and Jamie.What happens when you find you have exceptional children? Do you panic?...

    Jim Whippy: Sea Fishing [2013] paperback

    €7.99

    Every yachtsman or motorboater has at some point entertained the idea of catching their own supper, but until Sea Fishing there hasn't been a book to guide them through it....

    Simon Wilde: Wisden Cricketers of the Year [2013] hardback

    €19.99

    Wisden Cricketers' Almanack has become known as 'cricket's bible', and in 2013 it celebrates its 150th anniversary. Many of its traditions are of great significance to all fans of the...

    Clive Forth: The Mountain Bike Skills Manual [2011] paperback

    €6.99

    More riders than ever are heading to the country on their mountain bikes. It's a sport that has exploded over the last twenty years, as people of all ages and...

    Nick Holt: The Mammoth Book of The World Cup [2018] paperback

    €4.99€10.99

    An all-encompassing, chronological guide to football's World Cup, one of the world's few truly international events, in good time for the June 2018 kick-off in Russia. From its beginnings in...

    Andy Mitten: Bring On United [2024] hardback

    €28.60

    How Manchester United conquered all, by the players who won everything ______________________________________________________________ With a foreword by Manchester United interim manager Ruud van Nistelrooy The Champions League, the Club World Cup,...

    Robert Kitson: Around The World In 80 Minutes [2024] paperback

    €16.90

    A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 - SPORT'A mesmerising, unforgettable journey around world rugby' - DONALD McRAE, Twice winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year'Magnificent......

    Tyson Fury: Gypsy King of the World [2020] paperback

    €5.99

    "He is the greatest fighter alive today" Daily ExpressTyson Fury is colossal - six feet nine inches tall and a whisker under 20 stones in weight. He is spectacularly fast....

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