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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!

    Hippo! Orange: The Little Book of Man City [2023] hardback

    €6.99

    Manchester City stormed to the clubs fourth Premier League title in 2019, the fourth championship in seven seasons, which is a far cry from the 44-year wait which ended in...

    Luca Dal Monte: Enzo Ferrari [2024] paperback

    €22.10

    Soon to be an AppleTV+ series, Enzo uncovers a wealth of new facts about the origins, ambitions, and private life of Enzo Ferrari.Drawing on years of original research conducted in...

    Ricky Hatton: Ricky Hatton's Vegas Tales [2016] paperback

    €5.99

    Ricky Hatton's brilliance as a boxer, his down-to-earth demeanour and his live-wire sense of humour have made him a national treasure.Five of Ricky's biggest and most explosive fights took place...

    Reed Albergotti: Wheelmen [2014] paperback

    €5.99

    With a new Afterword.Lance Armstrong won a record-smashing seven Tour de France yellow jerseys after staring down cancer, and in the process became an international symbol of resilience and courage....

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

    €6.99

    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...

    David Papineau: Knowing the Score [2017] paperback

    €5.99

    'A tour de force that provides fresh insight not only into the nature of sport, but cooperation, the mind, altruism, teamwork, leadership, tribalism and ritualism. It's a book that every...

    Jon Smith: The Deal [2016] hardback

    €4.99

    'Excellent . . . an in-depth excavation of the murky and mysterious world of football business. Smith's candid and often shocking book reveals the true workings of football business that...

    Rob & Murray S Smyth: And Gazza Misses The Final [2014] paperback

    €4.99

    Classic World Cup clashes brought to life and re-evaluated by two of the writers of the popular Guardian minute-by-minute football blog. Watching each match in real time and reacting to...

    Vincent Kompany: Treble Triumph [2019] hardback

    €8.99

    Vincent Kompany relives a spectacular and unique season for Manchester City, in which as club captain he led the Blues to a unique Treble success of Premier League, FA Cup...

    Jeff Benedict: Tiger Woods [2018] hardback

    €6.99

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018THE OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A rattling read... Superbly written' Derek Lawrenson, Daily Mail'Arguably the most serious attempt ever...

    Dougie Lampkin: Trials and Error [2018] hardback

    €4.99

    Former trial biking world champion Dougie Lampkin's superb autobiography gives a unique insight into one of motorsport's most famous dynasties as well as revealing the inspiration that led him to...

    Simon Barnes: Epic [2018] hardback

    €5.99

    'This may conceivably be Barnes's best work yet' Marcus Berkmann, Daily Mail 'For 30 years I was the voice of sport at The Times - but that's enough about me....

    Adam Crafton: From Guernica to Guardiola [2018] hardback

    €9.99

    'An intelligent and stylish study...packed with new information and insight...cements Adam Crafton's reputation as one of the brightest young journalistic talents' Ian Herbert, author of Bob Paisley Quiet Genius As...

    Matt Prior: The Gloves are Off [2013] hardback

    €4.99

    Since he took over the gloves inthe England side in 2007, Matt Prior has become a vital part of England's subsequent success and strategy. In this book he looks at...

    Vinnie Jones: It's Been Emotional [2014] paperback

    €4.99

    British actor and professional footballer, Vinnie Jones is the original bad boy made good and will tell the full extraordinary rags to riches story for the first time - the...

    Robson Green: Extreme Fishing [2014] paperback

    €6.99

    Actor and passionate fisherman Robson Green is on a mission to discover the weird, the wonderful and the way-off-limits that the angling world has to offer.Working alongside some of the...

    Nicholas Clee: Eclipse [2013] paperback

    €3.99

    Watching Eclipse is the man who wants to buy him. An adventurer and rogue who has made his money through gambling, Dennis O'Kelly is also a known companion to the...

    Kindersley Dorling: WWE Encyclopedia Of Sports Entertainment, 3rd Edition [2016] hardback

    €9.99

    Get the history, facts, and stats on the Superstars, Divas, and Legends you love, with the updated and expanded WWE Encyclopedia of Sports Entertainment. This bumper new edition packs more...

    Eric Harr: Triathlon Training in Four Hours a Week: From Beginner to Finish Line in Just 6 Weeks [2015] paperback

    €6.99

    Triathlons are more popular now than ever. In this updated, revised version of his successful 2003 edition, triathlon champion Eric Harr provides the most up-to-date, cutting edge advice and research...

    Gary Edwards: Leeds United [2005] paperback

    €7.99

    He made you cry with laughter with Paint It White, now the celebrated Leeds-supporting, cartoon-drawing, painting-and-decorating eccentric Gary Edwards is back. It turns out that his first book was only...

    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

    €9.99

    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

    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€6.99

    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

    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

    €4.99€5.99

    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...

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