Mainstream Digital imprint: 404 books
Seventy-One Guns
The Year of the First Arsenal Double
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
In the summer of 1970, England was buzzing about the new football season. More than 30 million television viewers had watched the previous year's FA Cup final and the brilliant Brazilians had dazzled audiences during the Mexico World Cup. The new age of televised highlights meant that football's profile...
Legends of Irish Rugby
Forty Golden Greats
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Based on exclusive interviews with 40 celebrated players, past and present, Legends of Irish Rugby is a veritable who's who of the sport.
Immortals such as Jack Kyle, Willie John McBride, Tony Ward, Brian O'Driscoll, Gordon D'Arcy and Paul O'Connell bare their souls to reveal themselves as...
Dragons and All Blacks
Wales v. New Zealand - 1953 and a Century of Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
'The Bounce of the Century' they called it. A ball kicked across Cardiff Arms Park in the dying minutes of a match between two of international rugby's fiercest rivals. The world's two greatest wingers waited as it bounced towards them, knowing that whoever caught the ball would score and win the...
Strictly Me
My Life Under the Spotlight
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Mark Ramprakash is arguably the greatest English batsman of his generation, but he is also an enigma. He is among an elite group of players who have scored 100 first-class centuries, yet has never flourished as he should have done at Test level. To many people in the UK, he is just as well known for...
Hoolifan
30 Years of Hurt
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Hoolifan is the story of one man, Martin King, and his experiences spanning three decades with the country's foremost soccer gang. Chelsea have always been at the cutting edge of football violence, and King himself was at the heart of the evolving Chelsea mob for some 30 years. From his first visit...
Silence Of The Heart
Cricket Suicides
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Cricket has an alarming suicide rate.
Among international players for England and several other countries it is far above the national average for all sports: and there have been numerous instances at other levels of the game.
For thirty years, celebrated cricket author David Frith has...
by John Burrowes
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Few cities in the world abound with so many extraordinary stories as Glasgow. The city has been the silent witness to some of the most significant events of the past century, from major triumphs to cataclysmic calamities, and the best of these anecdotes are compiled here to form this unique collection.
Amongst...
A Load of Balls
Football's Funny Side
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
As former England striker and television pundit Jimmy Greaves famously said, football is 'a funny old game'. In A Load of Balls: Football's Funny Side, John Scally confirms the truth of his statement by providing a potpourri of double entendres, timeless quips and amusing anecdotes from the tongues...
Olympic Gangster
The Legend of José Beyaert - Cycling Champion, Fortune Hunter and Outlaw
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Restlessly vital and possessed of great physical strength, Jos� Beyaert lived many lives. During the Second World War, he boxed and trafficked arms for the Resistance on his bicycle. After it, he became an international cyclist. In 1948, a mile from the end of the Olympic road race around Windsor...
The Zen of Naka
The Journey of a Japanese Genius
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Since his move to Celtic in the summer of 2005, Shunsuke Nakamura has become a cult hero in both Scotland and the Far East. From the wonderful goal in his Champions League debut against Manchester United in 2006 to the strike against Kilmarnock that secured Celtic's league win in 2006-07, Nakamura...
Tommy Doc
The Controversial and Colourful Life of One of Football's Most Dominant Personalities
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Tommy ‘The Doc’ Docherty was a combative Scotland international wing-half who became a brilliant but erratic manager. His 1960s Chelsea team was a glorious reflection of his colourful personality, and a decade later he reinvented his relegated Manchester United side as a vibrant attacking force.
He...
Three Lions Versus the World
England's World Cup Stories from the Men Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
***FOREWORD BY FABIO CAPELLO***
Since their first appearance in the competition in 1950, England's World Cup story has been one of broken dreams, bad luck, shock losses and penalty nightmares, with one shining exception in 1966, when they famously won the Cup after beating Germany 4-2.
In...
'66
The Inside Story of England's 1966 World Cup Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
'. . . it is now!' With these legendary three words the 1966 World Cup final came to an end. England had won, and at 5.15 p.m. on 30 July 1966, Bobby Moore wiped his hands on his shorts, shook hands with the Queen, and took delivery of the Jules Rimet trophy before a worldwide television audience...
Lions of Ireland
A Celebration of Irish Rugby Legends
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Look for a Lions legend and the chances are you will find an Irishman. Throughout the touring team's history, the heroes of Irish rugby have been at the heart of the Lions' finest hours - on and off the pitch.
Look at the Lions record books and you will find Irishmen at the top of almost every...