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Size Doesn't Matter: My Rugby Life

Autor: Neil Back
Künstler: Martin Johnson

Half Truths: My Triumphs, My Mistakes, My Untold Story

Autor: Mike Phillips

Hard Men of Welsh Rugby

Autor: Lynn Davies

Donal Lenihan: My Life in Rugby

Autor: Donal Lenihan

You Can't Stop The Sun From Shining

Autor: Sonny Bill Williams

My Name's Doddie: The Autobiography

Autor: Doddie Weir
Idee: Stewart Weir

The Invincibles: The Inside Story of the 1982 Kangaroos, the Team That Changed Rugby Forever

Mark Flanagan

Fringes: Life on the Edge of Professional Rugby

Ben Mercer

Just for Kicks

Kenny Logan

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Richie McCaw

Wrecking Ball

Billy Vunipola

Voted Rugby Book of the Year at the 2018 Sports Book Awards.

Wrecking Ball is a captivating and humorous memoir by Billy Vunipola, one of the stars of England's recent rugby renaissance, and will be enjoyed by those who have read the recent autobiographies by Jonny Wilkinson, Brian O' Driscoll, Dan Carter and Paul O' Connell.

Standing at 6 feet 2 inches and weighing almost 20 stone, Billy is a rampaging and unmissable presence on the rugby pitch, for both club and country.  

Wrecking Ball is his captivating story so far, chronicling his remarkable personal odyssey of 10, 000 miles, from the tiny Tongan village of Longo Longo to the imposing vastness of Twickenham.

Join Billy on his journey from the year-round sunshine of Tonga to the bitter cold of a British winter, from his favourite Pontypool kebab shop to finding himself eating broccoli for breakfast, and from carefree childhood games in the middle of the Pacific to the serious business of playing professional rugby in Europe.  

Wrecking Ball is a wonderfully eccentric and witty book, written with bags of charm. It captures Billy's colourful family and upbringing, and creates a rounded and fascinating portrait of a young man finding his feet as a modern English rugby player.

Behind the Silver Fern: Playing Rugby for New Zealand (Behind the Jersey)

Tony Johnson, Lynn McConnell

In the Line of Fire: The Inside Story from the Lions Head Coach

Warren Gatland

Warren Gatland's In the Line of Fire is the ultimate chronicle of this summer's remarkable Lions tour to New Zealand - home of the fearsome All Blacks, the double world champions - which culminated in a historic and nerve-shredding series draw.

The book is the Head Coach's wonderfully candid and vibrant record of the withering ferocity, the turbulent peaks and troughs and the triumphs and despairs of one of sport's toughest challenges. It gives rugby fans an unparalleled front-row seat with the squad and coaching team during every facet of preparing for and executing a successful tour on the opposite side of the planet, recounting intriguing details on everything from pre-tour planning and strategy to on-tour experiences, analysis and decision making.

It all adds up to a thrillingly definitive exposition and post-mortem of a mind-blowing six weeks in the cauldron which forged the mighty All Blacks.

El Clasico: Barcelona v Real Madrid: Football's Greatest Rivalry

Richard Fitzpatrick

Barcelona and Real Madrid: two of the most powerful and popular clubs in world football, and one of the world's most bitter sporting rivalries. Going far beyond the boundaries of just sport alone, this is a rivalry at the heart of Spanish life, taking in politics and culture and splitting a country in two.

El Clasico gets to the heart of that rivalry, investigating the intrigue, the larger-than-life characters, the key flashpoints and their consequences. From civil war bloodshed to 40 years of fascism and links with General Franco, the clubs' shared history is the stuff of a Robert Harris novel and includes: murdered presidents from both clubs, player kidnappings, acts of hooliganism - and that's before you start thinking of the volatile football matches themselves.

The book contains numerous interviews with key figures such as Lus Figo and Hristo Stoichkov (two of the main hate figures from both clubs), Joan Laporta ( Barcelona's most successful president and, having entered politics, Catalonian separatism's poster boy) and various ex-players, ex-managers, agents, referees, hooligans, editors, historians, sociologists, filmmakers, novelists, photographers, T V presenters and celebrity fans.

The two clubs are packed with international superstar players - including the world's two best players in Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo - and 10 of the starting 11 players from Spain's 2010 World Cup final victory play with either Barcelona or Real Madrid.

This is a story with resonance around the sporting world, with many instantly recognisable figuresto an international audience such as Jose Mourinho. But it is also a tale of a country divided by a bitter rivalry.

Blood and Thunder: the Unofficial Biography of Jonah Lomu

Phil Shirley

Lion Man: The Autobiography

Ian McGeechan

Matt Dawson's Lions Tales (English Edition)

Autor: Matt Dawson

Pulling the Strings: My Autobiography (English Edition)

Autor: Peter Stringer

Nobody Beats Us: The Inside Story of the 1970s Wales Rugby Team (English Edition)

Autor: David Tossell
Einleitung: J. J. Williams