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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!

    Priest Evin: Together We Roared [2025] hardback

    €29.99

    Steve Williams, arguably the greatest caddie in golf history, teams up with renowned golf journalist Evin Priest to give his definitive account of his 12-year partnership with the legendary Tiger...

    John Scally: Great GAA Rivalries [2019] paperback

    €7.99 – €16.99

    'Will bring back a treasure trove of great memories for GAA fans.' CYRIL FARRELLFans always answer in the affirmative when their team asks: Will you still love me tomorrow? However,...

    Tom Humphries: Laptop Dancing and the Nanny Goat Mambo [2003] paperback

    €3.99 – €9.99

    Introducing the Bill Bryson of sports reporting. This is a wry, hilarious insider's account of the sports journalist's life. Tom Humphries is a passion machine according to his colleagues at...

    Duncan Alexander: OptaJoe's Football Yearbook 2016 [2016] paperback

    €4.99 – €15.99

    Kane or Vardy?Pep or Jose? Pulis or ... anybody else? Football is a game of opinions. A world where received wisdom and the law of the hunch reign supreme. But...

    Paul Simpson: The Rough Guide to Cult Football [2003] paperback

    €5.99 – €11.99

    A guide to the sport that one American sports journalist described as "22 guys standing around while one guy tap dances on the ball", this book takes a look at...

    Steve Newell: Complete Golf Manual [2010] hardback

    €5.99 – €22.99

    Transform your golf game with this expert guide - and lower your handicap tooLearn to play like a pro and improve your golf game, whether you are a novice or...

    Saraya-Jade Bevis: Hell In Boots [2025] hardback

    €24.99

    An eye-opening memoir of family drama, stardom, despair, and resilience from the wildly popular wrestling superstar. Saraya-Jade Bevis, formerly WWE's Paige, is one of the biggest names in the wrestling...

    Hulk Hogan: My Life Outside the Ring [2009] paperback

    €6.99 – €18.56

    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,...

    Mick Foley: Hardcore Diaries [2007]

    €12.99 – €27.13

    What does it feel like to fall through a flaming table for the very first time? Or the umpteenth time for that matter. In the fresh off-the-cuff style that has...

    Billy Graham: Superstar Billy Graham [2006]

    €12.99 – €25.70

    'The man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour!' That was how Superstar Billy Graham described himself, and who could argue? Graham was perhaps...

    Mick Foley: Countdown to Lockdown [2010] hardback

    €9.99 – €24.27

    Mick Foley is back and Countdown to Lockdown tells us the story of his spectacular return, his last days with the WWE, as well as a blow-by-blow account of the...

    Oscar Moran: Stretching Excercises Encyclopedia [2012] paperback

    €6.99 – €9.99

    Furthermore, each exercise includes information about the movement one needs to perform, the posture that one must adopt, common mistakes that should be avoided, the principal and secondary muscles worked...

    & Meyer Meyer: Muscle Exercises Encyclopedia [2012] paperback

    €9.99

    This book describes over 440 exercises with comments and illustrations based on empirical know-how and scientific research. It includes all of the basic and numerous less common exercises with comments...

    Tom Callahan: Dancin' With Sonny Liston [2004] paperback

    €5.99

    "Dancin' with Sonny Liston" is a treasury of inside stories you have never heard before about athletes you thought you knew. Like the boxer Muhammad Ali (who, on the eve...

    Donald McRae: In Black And White [2003] paperback

    €5.99 – €11.41

    Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and endured: as vulnerable as...

    Ian Rush: Rush [2009] paperback

    €5.99 – €21.41

    In 2006, Liverpool fans voted Ian Rush among the top three all-time greatest players in the history of the club. Taking his place alongside Kenny Dalglish and Steven Gerrard, he...

    Daniel Coyle: The Secret Race [2012] hardback

    €7.99 – €25.00

    WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2012. On a fateful night in 2009, Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle met for dinner in Boulder, Colorado. The...

    Headline: The Utilita Football Yearbook 2024-2025 [2024] paperback

    €9.99 – €24.99

    'The definitive chronicle of changing times for so many who love the sport' Ian Herbert, Daily Mail'The Yearbook stands for authority and integrity' Martin Tyler'The first reference book you should...

    Oleksandr Zinchenko: Believe [2025] paperback

    €22.10

    A fan favourite at Arsenal and previously at Manchester City, Oleksandr Zinchenko has been lighting up the Premier League with his fearless performances for many years. But his success has...

    Brassell Andy: We Play On [2024] paperback

    €13.99

    'A gripping account of how Shakhtar Donetsk came to represent embattled Ukraine's hopes for the future' Sunday Times'We want to show to the world that we are alive. That we...

    James Montague: The Billionaires Club [2017] paperback

    €5.99 – €18.56

    Once upon a time football was run by modest local businessmen. Today it is the plaything of billionaire oligarchs, staggeringly wealthy from oil and gas, from royalty, or from murkier...

    Scott Jurek: Eat and Run [2012] paperback

    €7.99 – €18.56

    '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...

    David Conn: The Fall of the House of Fifa [2017] hardback

    €6.99 – €24.27

    Fifa was founded in 1904 to unite the football-playing world, its first congress stating that 'no person should be allowed to arrange matches for personal profit'. A little over a...

    Christopher M. Norris: The Complete Guide to Stretching [2007] paperback

    €7.99 – €24.70

    The Complete Guide to Stretching is the definitive practical handbook for: - sports participants and recreational exercisers who are keen to achieve a level of flexibility that will enhance their...

    Safe Cycling in the City: How to choose a bike, maintain it, cycle safely, get fit and stay healthy [2020] paperback

    €10.40

    This is an urban and commuting cyclist's handbook, both inspirational and practical, showing us how to live safer, more enjoyable and healthier lives, both physically and mentally, while reducing our...

    Ian Herbert: Tinseltown [2024] paperback

    €16.90

    *** SHORTLISTED IN THE SPORTS WRITING CATEGORY AT THE 2024 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS ****** LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ****** ONE OF THE DAILY...

    John Scally: Legends of Irish Rugby [2005] hardback

    €5.99 – €22.10

    Based on exclusive interviews with 40 celebrated players, past and present, Legends of Irish Rugby is a veritable who's who of the sport. The top personalities of the Irish game...

    Wayne Barton: Football, Taught By Matt Busby [2025] hardback

    €24.99

    The world's biggest football club comes under scrutiny like no other sporting institution on earth. Yet how did Manchester United become the global behemoth it is? And how and why...

    Michael Carrick: Michael Carrick: Between the Lines [2018] paperback

    €4.99

    Michael Carrick has been at the heart of Manchester United for over a decade. He is the player that makes them tick. Their heartbeat. Loved by his managers, lauded by...

    Kieran Read: Kieran Read - Straight 8: The Autobiography [2019] paperback

    €5.99 – €12.99

    As Kieran Read prepares to call time on his distinguished New Zealand career at the end of the Rugby World Cup, this is the open and honest life story of...

    Alistair Cooke: The Marvellous Mania [2008] paperback

    €5.99 – €11.70

    Although Alistair Cooke called golf 'a method of self-torture, disguised as a game', from the first time he swung a club at the age of fifty-five, he was hooked for...

    Will Buckley: The Man Who Hated Football [2004] paperback

    €4.99 – €14.30

    A novel about a family man struggling to reconcile his shambolic personal life with the job of football reporting he has grown to hate. Jimmy Stirling has a wife who...

    Johnny Morgan: For the Love of Football [2017] hardback

    €6.99 – €14.27

    In which year did the first televised football match take place? What were the first shin pads made out of? Who held the shortest ever managerial position, at a record-breaking...

    Ian Balding: Making the Running [2004] hardback

    €6.99 – €27.13

    The image of the Derby winner with his leg in plaster was broadcast around the world. Alongside Mill Reef stood a baby-faced man who had won the Arc, the King...

    Tom English: No Borders [2015] hardback

    €9.99 – €26.00

    Fully updated to include Ireland's historic victory over the All Blacks and their 2018 Six Nations Grand Slam.From Jack Kyle's immortals to Brian O'Driscoll's golden generation, this is the story...

    Boris Becker: The Player [2004] hardback

    €4.99 – €25.70

    Born in Leimen, West Germany, in 1967, Boris Becker burst onto the international tennis scene in 1985 when, as an unknown 17-year-old, he rewrote the record books by beating Kevin...

    Luca Caioli: Suarez [2014] paperback

    €4.99 – €11.41

    Bestselling football biographer Luca Caioli tackles his most controversial subject yet - Barcelona, Uruguay and former Liverpool forward Luis Suarez.When in late September 2013 Luis Suarez returned from a landmark...

    Dominic Bliss: Novak Djokovic [2024] hardback

    €24.99

    Explore the incredible life of Novak Djokovic - from his boyhood in war-torn Serbia to his 24th Grand Slam title at the 2023 US Open, and winning Olympic gold for...

    Alan Brazil: Only Here For A Visit [2020] hardback

    €5.99 – €24.99

    'The only book that will give you a hangover' Chris Evans Breakfast Show---The hilarious, no holds barred autobiography from sporting legend and broadcaster Alan Brazil.As Alan recounts tales from his...

    Neil Warnock: The Gaffer: The Trials and Tribulations of a Football Manager [2013] hardback

    €5.99 – €20.99

    How does a top professional football manager cope with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, with living, breathing and sleeping football 24 hours a day, 365 days a year?...

    Sir Chris Hoy: All That Matters [2024] paperback

    €9.99

    'It's an incredible read for anyone facing adversity in their life; how to cope with it, how to stay positive in really difficult situations.' - Sally Nugent'A throat-catching love letter...

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