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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!

    Bear Grylls: EXTREME FOOD Z6 [2014] hardback

    €5.99

    "There's no getting away from it; I've eaten some pretty extreme things in my time - live tarantulas, raw goat testicles, elephant dung, you name it. In a situation when...

    Ned Boulting: 1923 [2024] paperback

    €14.30

    WINNER OF THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEARA WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: SPORTNOMINATED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'An absorbing...

    John White: The Celtic Football Miscellany [2006] hardback

    €7.99

    There is something for every fan in "The Celtic Football Miscellany". The world-famous Scottish football club has a widely diverse and amazingly successful history, but this book is not exclusively...

    David Dew: Racing Post Guide to the Flat 2019 [2019] paperback

    €4.99

    Racing Post Guide to the Flat includes exclusive, extended trainer interviews, profiles of over 250 horses to run during 2019, specialist selections for horses to follow, dark horses unearthed and...

    Brian Glanville: STORY OF THE WORLD CUP Z44 [2018] paperback

    €7.99

    Brian Glanville's dramatic history of the world's most famous football tournament has become the most authoritative guide to the World Cup. His classic, bestselling account is a vivid celebration of...

    Ricky Tomlinson: Football My Arse [2005] hardback

    €6.99€13.00

    'I have always collected football stories like other people collect stamps, and it's great to get this opportunity to stick them in a book' From the bestselling author of RICKY...

    Rod Ellingworth: Project Rainbow [2013] paperback

    €5.99

    Twenty years ago, British road cycling was in the doldrums: today it is at the top of the world, thanks to Bradley Wiggins' Tour de France win, Mark Cavendish's Road...

    Michael Barry: Shadows on the Road [2014] hardback

    €5.99€9.99

    In 2012, veteran cyclist Michael Barry announced his retirement from the sport after riding for several top professional teams, including US Postal and Team Sky. Weeks later he testified against...

    Adrian Tempany: And the Sun Shines Now [2017] paperback

    €5.99

    WINNER OF THE NEW WRITER AWARD AT THE CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE, THE GORDON BURN PRIZE AND FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE CROSS SPORTS...

    Adharanand Finn: Running with the Kenyans [2012] paperback

    €6.99

    "Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year" - This is shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. After years of watching Kenyan athletes win the world's...

    Colm Keane: Hurling's Top 20 [2003] paperback

    €6.99€11.41

    In HURLING'S TOP 20 bestselling author and broadcaster Colm Keane profiles 20 of the greatest hurling legends to grace the game: from Christy Ring, Mick Mackey, Jack Lynch and Tony...

    Blythe Lucero: 100 More Swimming Drills [2013] paperback

    €12.99€21.36

    To swim better, we have to swim more efficiently. While good technique is the foundation of efficient swimming, it is difficult to achieve by simply swimming lap after lap. Ongoing...

    Bruce Lee: Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do [1997] paperback

    €9.99€27.13

    Compiled from Bruce Lee's notes and writings, Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do is the seminal book presenting the martial art created by Bruce Lee himself. Jeet Kune Do was a...

    Sean Kelly: Rule 42 and All That [2007] hardback

    €4.99€32.14

    From boyhood days in his local GAA field at Kilcummin, Co. Kerry, to the office of President of the GAA, Sean Kelly reflects on how he came to lead one...

    Alison Muir Bennett: The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Oceans [2005] paperback

    €7.99€17.13

    What better way of travelling the world than by crewing on a yacht? The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Oceans is ideal for crew pre-planning, and for skippers seeking crew. It...

    Jamie Reid: Doped [2013] hardback

    €9.99€28.57

    Doped is the gripping true-story racing thriller set in Britain in the 1950s and early 1960s. Combining a potent mix of horse racing, drugs, sex, class, crime, gambling and the...

    Katie Dailey: Heels on Wheels [2012] paperback

    €7.99€14.27

    Learning to ride a bike is easy, but getting back on one if you're over the age of 12 (and have developed a penchant for high heels) can be daunting....

    Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Le Tour [2004] paperback

    €6.99€12.84

    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...

    Michael Parkinson: Muhammad Ali: A Memoir [2016] paperback

    €8.99€21.41

    Sir Michael Parkinson interviewed Muhammad Ali four times and in this memoir you are given a ringside seat for all of the interviews.Muhammad Ali was God's Gift to the interviewer....

    Constable Nick: Match of the Day Football Almanac [2024] hardback

    €20.99

    Do you remember the Battle of Old Trafford? Shearer's dream debut hat trick? Or how many goals Haaland scored in his first Premier League season? Hope, heartbreak and victory, over...

    of the Day Magazine Match: Match of the Day Annual 2025 [2024] hardback

    €11.99

    What a save!The MOTD annual returns, bursting with fun football trivia, games, puzzles, cartoons and much, much more...Packed with fun football trivia, quizzes, games, puzzles, top 10s, cartoons and more,...

    Gerrard, Steven: Gerrard [2006] paperback

    €4.99€15.60

    Born in the Liverpool suburb of Huyton in 1980, Steven Gerrard joined Liverpool FC as a YTS trainee and played his first first team game aged just 18. He has...

    Ceallachain Sean & O: The Liam MacCarthy Cup [2010] paperback

    €5.99€12.99

    First awarded in 1923, Sean Og O Ceallachain and Owen McCann survey every decade since then, recalling many of the most famous All-Ireland hurling finals:* The thunder and lightning final...

    Scott Douglas: Runner's World Complete Guide To Minimalism And Barefoot Running [2013] paperback

    €1.99

    Proponents of running either barefoot or in minimalist shoes argue that by introducing a thick layer of cushioning and an elevated heel between the foot and the ground, modern running...

    Suzanne Schlosberg: FITNESS FOR DUMMIES 4ED W3 [2010] paperback

    €12.99

    The latest and greatest in getting fit and staying that way! Fitness For Dummies, 4th Edition, provides the latest information and advice for properly shaping, conditioning, and strengthening your body...

    Cait Murphy: A History of American Sports in 100 Objects [2016] hardback

    €14.99€29.70

    What artifact best captures the spirit of American sports? The bat Babe Ruth used to hit his allegedly called shot, or the ball on which Pete Rose wrote, I'm sorry...

    Amy Lane: I Can Run [2021] paperback

    €6.99€14.27

    I CAN RUN is not a running book for 'runners' - it's the must-have running book for anyone who has ever experienced a moment of defeatism and had the little...

    David Mortimer: Classic Rugby Clangers [2015] paperback

    €6.99€11.41

    This hilarious collection of stories taken from over 130 years of rugby history recounts some of the moments their perpetrators would rather forget. A relentlessly high-speed game, rugby is particularly...

    Alan Brazil: There's an Awful Lot of Bubbly in Brazil [2006] hardback

    €12.99€27.13

    This is a tale about a boy from the back streets of Glasgow who rose from being a fanatical Celtic fan to leading Scotland's World Cup attack with Kenny Dalglish....

    John D Barrow: Mathletics: 100 Amazing Things You Didn't Know About the World of Sports [2013] paperback

    €4.99

    How can sprinter Usain Bolt break his world record without expending any additional effort? What dates of birth give rise to the best professional athletes? Is it better to have...

    Julie Checkoway: THREE YEAR SWIM CLUB Z1 [2016] paperback

    €2.99

    In 1937 an ordinary school teacher on the island of Maui took a group of under privileged children, most of Japanese ancestry, and trained them to become Olympic swimmers. He...

    Cory Wharton-Malcolm: All You Need Is Rhythm And Grit [2024] paperback

    €21.99

    'Everything Wharton-Malcolm does has the aim of helping people achieve the best version of themselves' Evening Standard'In a world where expectations of others is making people drop out of sport,...

    Edward Newman: Lansdowne Through the Years [2010] paperback

    €6.99€19.99

    Lansdowne Road Stadium, the oldest international stadium in the world, has been at the centre of Irish sporting life since it opening in 1878. In 2006 the stadium closed its...

    Troy Deeney: Troy Deeney: Redemption [2021] hardback

    €9.99

    ***'Footie book of the year.' - The SunTROY DEENEY is best known as Watford FC's former captain and a thorn in Arsenal's side. But behind the successful and gritty football...

    Attax Match: Match Attax Annual 2025 [2024] hardback

    €11.99

    Discover everything there is to know about your favourite football heroes in the Official Match Attax Annual 2025! Farshore are the #1 annuals publisher in the UK (Bookscan TCM 2023)...

    The Lance Armstrong Foundation: LiveStrong: Inspirational Stories from Cancer Survivors - From Diagnosis to Treatment and Beyond [2006] paperback

    €4.99

    Since the now-ubiquitous LIVESTRONG wristbands became available in May 2004, the Lance Armstrong Foundation, founded by cancer survivor and cycling champion Lance Armstrong, has raised more than $50 million for...

    Ray Mears: Bushcraft Survival [2006] paperback

    €6.99

    In BUSHCRAFT SURVIVAL Ray Mears travels to some of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses in the world, and experiences first hand the survival techniques of different indigenous cultures. From...

    Ray Mears: Bushcraft Survival [2005] hardback

    €4.99

    In BUSHCRAFT SURVIVAL Ray Mears travels to some of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses in the world, and experiences first hand the survival techniques of different indigenous cultures. From...

    Bobby Robson: Bobby Robson: Farewell but not Goodbye - My Autobiography: The Remarkable Life of a Sporting Legend. [2006] paperback

    €3.99€4.99

    Revered in Newcastle and the North-East, Sir Bobby Robson is a man whose fame knows no boundaries and who enjoys phenomenal popularity. His playing days with Fulham and West Brom...

    Alan Ball Mbe: Playing Extra Time [2005] paperback

    €1.99

    Alan Ball always wanted to be the best. Small in stature, red-haired and fiery, Alan was one of the most recognisable players of his generation. Fans on the terraces and...

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