Sport

Gaelic football is Ireland's native sport. Fast, physical, athletic and driven by local and national rivalries, it is a unique part of our heritage. Ray McManus and his team at...

Sport Cyberpsychology is the first book devoted to assessing the influence of technology on human interaction, behaviour and mental health in a sport context, gathering research on the use of...

Anyone who's ever seen or attended the PDC World Darts Championships knows that darts is no ordinary sport. Where else would you find world-class superstars, in the midst of a...

This reference work aims to provide sports enthusiasts, journalists, librarians, students and scholars with an authorative source of information on a comprehensive range of subjects covering the history and organization...

'A literary sports book, Preferred Lies would be playful, personal, lyrical, tongue in cheek, elegiac, meditative, a personal and cultural exploration.' Surely golf is a game for posh people, country...

When Padraig Harrington won the Open Championship in 2007, he became only the second Irish golfer ever to win a Major, ending a drought which dated back to Fred Daly's...

The Ryder Cup has defined Sam Torrance's life as a professional golfer. He has played with and against some of the greatest golfers the game has ever known, in the...

In his thirties, married, and staring down impending fatherhood, Tom Coyne was well familiar with the last refuge of the adult male: the golfing trip. Intent on designing a golf...

An anthology combining writing about golf with fictional descriptions of the game. Alongside accounts of the exploits of Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus, and Ian Woosnam are pieces by John Updike,...

In The Sweetest Game, author Cal Brown (Masters Memories; Augusta National & The Masters: A Photographer's Scrapbook) gathers priceless and practical gems from succeeding generations of master golfers, teachers and...

Held on the hallowed grounds of the Augusta National Golf Club, and widely broadcast on TV, "The Masters" is one of the world's most-watched sporting events each year. This collection...

This is a biography of Brian Robinson, racing cyclist. Brian Robinson, the first Englishman ever to complete the Tour de France, went on to make a career as a professional...

Discover the story of Britain's ultimate cyclist and his ill-fated race during the 1967 Tour de France, from the bestselling author of Half Man Half BikeTom Simpson was an Olympic...

The team behind the best-selling THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO SURVIVAL HANDBOOK series has hit the links, and report back with advice for dozens of all new worst-case scenarios, from how to...

GOLF MY WAY is the one book that presents a complete, in-depth, A-to-Z explanation of how this greatest of champions thinks about and plays the game. Unlike his other books,...

Each entry is a light-hearted but informative look at the golf swings of the famous - and sometimes not so famous - pupils of the Knightsbridge Golf School, founded by...

David Leadbetter is one of he superstars of golf coaching, credited with helping Nick Faldo to several Majors wins, and continuing to coach the world's best players like Ernie Els...

Golfers bring more than their clubs to the course; they also bring doubt, fear and excitement - and a lot of hope. They are so intent on looking good that...

Imagine being able to achieve the perfect mental state to make your best possible swing over every shot? Being fearless at critical putts and stepping up with an inner calm...

Showing you what others only tell you. Ideal for any enthusiast this unique visual guide covers every aspect of the world's greatest game. From choosing the right equipment to learning...

Following in the curmudgeonly footsteps of One Grump or Two and The Grumpy Driver's Handbook, Grumpy Golfer is a compilation of all things miserable about playing golf.Mark Twain famously said,...

From Rabbit Wars waged on St. Andrew's famous Old Course to the rebellion that interrupted a Royal round, this tome is packed with facts that will tantalised and enthral. Delve...

For many of us, golf could be defined as long periods of aggravation, punctuated by brief but dazzling moments of clarity and reward. But when those brief, satisfying moments disappear,...

Golf has been considered a strange pastime, by players and non-players alike, ever since its birth in Scotland half a millennium ago. Since it became a worldwide obsession in the...

"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose." Winston Churchill Whether it's the hacker...

Golf is in the details, and for anyone fascinated by the minutiae of the game, "A Disorderly Compendium of Golf" hits the pin. It's all here, including history: oldest courses,...

Wonderful new addition to the Yellow Jersey Shorts series - an affecting memoir of one man's obsession with the arcane mysteries of the game of golf. Destined to become a...

This is the story of golf as it's never been told before. A dog-legged compilation of sports reports, spoof correspondence and reminiscences from pros, caddies, playing partners and armchair pundits:...