Unveiling cricket’s greatest entertainer! The first Australian cricketer to play 100 internationals across all three levels (Tests, ODIs and T20s), David Warner is a champion of his generation; fabulous but flawed. No Australian opener in history has surpassed his rapid-fire strike rate in excess of 70 runs per 100 balls. Only one other has ......
The biography of Adrian Noddy Alston, a flamboyant striker who was part of the first Socceroos squad to make the World Cup in 1974, and who has spent his entire non-football working life working with people with a disability.
The name ‘Buddy’ is synonymous with Lance Franklin. Every Australian rules footy fanatic knows the name ‘Buddy’ with the name’s reverence in Australia akin to ‘Pele’ in Brazil or ‘Magic’
Johnson in the States.
The first book to focus on Australian international cricketer and Captain of the Australian Test team Pat Cummins. From his early life to his arrival as a Test cricketer, his frustrations with injury, and his arrival as the 47th Australian Test Captain.
In this new edition of the top seller, award-winning sports writer Ron Reed and journalist Chris McLeod pay tribute to the Australian champion and women’s tennis World No. 1. With up-to-date statistics and analysis of all her games including her 2022 Australian Open and 2021 Wimbledon wins, Tokyo Olympics campaign and the 2021 US Open.
Tennis Champion, Sports Legend, and Cultural Heroine
Record-breaking, trend-setting, polarizing, and controversial, Serena Williams often sparks conversation and debate. The 23-time Grand Slam champion has a team, an entourage, celebrity groupies, and a band of fans who call themselves "Serena's army." When not winning titles, Williams finds time to run her own fashion line, endorse luxury and ......
Martin Flanagan, journalist at the Age, has often written of the great Wonders of Australian Sport, his love of the AFL, of the importance of Aboriginal players in the highest echelons of Australian sport. A few years ago he threw himself at the mysterious and distressed figure of Tom Wills...
Ayrton Senna da Silva was a Brazilian racing driver who won three Formula One world championships for McLaren in 1988, 1990 and 1991, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest Formula One drivers of all time. He died in
an accident while leading the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix for Williams. Senna began his motorsport career in ......
A Biography of India's Most Famous Hunter of Man-Eating Tigers and Leopa
These are riveting, true-life tales of the legendary Jim Corbett and the man-eating tigers and leopards he tracked and killed in India in the early part of this century.