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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.


- P. G. Wodehouse


69412 INDIAN MASTERS by Bill Ricquier


India has given the world some of the most exciting cricketers in the history of the game. This book looks at 15 of the finest, including Tendulkar, Srinath, Duleepsinhji, the Pataudis, Bedi, Kumble, Ganguly, Dilip Doshi, Ravi Shastri,


Mohammad Azharuddin and Vinood Mankad. Besides playing at the very highest level of cricket, for


England or, later, for India, all of these players have enjoyed superb careers in English domestic cricket and have been much admired exponents of the game. 192 paperback pages lavishly illustrated in b/w with personal and playing biographies and detailed statistics. £12.99 NOW £5


69338 GOLFER’S NOTEBOOK by Keith Baxter


Most people have a diary for their engagements and the window- cleaner’s phone number, but there is a select brotherhood (and sisterhood) who need something more elaborate. The Golfer’s Notebook is designed specifically for these people, incorporating four year- planners and 50 pages designed for recording the details of a round,


whether with friends or in an event, including a table for each hole showing distance, par, stroke index and score. Information about competition format and the handicap system is provided, with a handicap calculator and instructions on how to measure your yardage. The last part of the book contains pages for Course Reviews, with a star system for the course, bar, staff and shop, and boxes to tick for amenities such as cart hire, practice range and greens. A useful pocket in the cover is good place for keeping score cards. Finally there is a checklist of the top 100 courses in Britain and Ireland, America, and the World, again with boxes to tick. 150pp, numerous superb colour photos of courses. £12.99 NOW £3.50


69518 FOR CLUB AND COUNTRY


by Brian Glanville


Subtitled The Best of the Guardian’s Footballing Obituaries, here the Guardian columnist since 1996 who is regarded as the best in the business has collected more than 80 pieces. He recalls to life the players who have enthralled countless thousands of football fans includes eulogies to George Armstrong, Stan Cullis, David Rocastle, Waldire


Pereira, Brian Clough, Emlyn Hughes, Bobby Johnson and George Best. Sometimes famous names live on - Shackleton, Blanchflower, Lawton - but details are lost in history. This writer peppers some of his obituaries with humorous anecdotes. 264pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £3.50


69420 TONY LOCK:


Aggressive Master of Spin by Alan Hill


The rollercoaster career of Tony Lock, extending over 25 years, is the saga of a resilient cricketer who triumphed over adversity. He was an inspirational figure in Surrey’s seven consecutive championship wins in the 1950s when he forged a feared spin partnership with Jim Laker for both club and country.


Controversy stalked Lock as a bowler during his destructive rule with Surrey and England but the return to the orthodox style of his youth brought renewed acclaim. This far-reaching study reveals a volatile and vulnerable man. He was, for a legion of admirers, an incorrigible showman, with boundless enthusiasm for the game. 224 pages with b/w archive photos, many previously unpublished, statistical appendix compiled by Paul Dyson and an epilogue: Memories of the Born Winner.


£18.99 NOW £6.50


69105 CENTURIONS OF GOLF: 100 English Courses


Celebrating 100 Years of Golf by Mike Berners Price One hundred wonderful courses are described in loving detail in this perfect gift for the golfing enthusiast. Among the clubs featured in this


beautifully produced book are Royal Jersey, home of the legendary Harry Vardon, six times Open champion, who is also pictured driving at the second hole in 1905 at Alnmouth with its wonderful estuary views. Royal Birkdale with its circular hazard at the par-3 seventh hole is one of the world’s great courses, and Royal Cromer, which included 12 ladies among its founders, is associated with women’s golf and the Curtis sisters. Windswept Marlborough course has a close link with the public school, Alwoodley and Huddersfield are oases in the gritty West Yorkshire landscape and Bamburgh is situated on one of the country’s most beautiful stretches of deserted coastline. 288pp, colour photos. £25 NOW £5


68123 GAME OF SPHAIRISTIKE OR LAWN TENNIS by Walter Wingfield


Real (or royal) tennis has been known for hundreds of years, played on an indoor court and thus only really available to the rich. In 1858 an outdoor version of real tennis called pelota was introduced but it did not catch on. Then in 1874, one Major Walter Clopton Wingfield introduced the game that was to become known as lawn tennis and for reasons best known to him decided to call it Sphairistike, derived from a Greek word referring to an


ancient ball game. Wingfield had a kit produced containing a net and posts, four bats, balls, a mallet and a line brush. The whole thing cost five guineas and was accompanied by a book of rules. Facsimile reprint of 1874 original , 40pp. Illus. £7.99 NOW £1.50


67999 COMPLETE RUNNING MANUAL


by Mariëlle Richardson This is a comprehensive, in-depth guide that includes detailed coverage of the specific training requirements for different age groups, how to cope with injuries, cross-training techniques, the role of


mental strength in running and a section devoted to women runners and the specific issues they face. There is also nutritional advice, training tables for 5km, 10km, half and full marathons and special tips for children and older runners. 192 large pages, colour photos and list of websites.


£19.99 NOW £5


67292 FOOTBALL FANS GUIDE by Mark Bisson


A comprehensively researched handbook to the grounds and how to find them plus information on decent pubs, restaurants and hotels, where is good to park and if you are planning a weekend, what else our football towns and cities have to offer. The new Wembley guide gives a complete in-depth overview of the new stadium and what is on offer. 92 Premiership and Football League clubs listed alphabetically from Accrington Stanley to Yeovil Town. 224pp in softback. £9.99 NOW £3


67344 GREATEST MOMENTS


IN SNOOKER by Ian Welch Enjoy the masters of the green baize who dominated the sport for many years like Terry Griffiths, Jimmy White, Ray Reardon and Steve Davis. Experience the excitement of 22 classic moments of


snooker like the thrilling 1985 World Championship final when Dennis Taylor claimed the title and we saw a young Stephen Hendry arrive on the international scene. Also features stars like Cliff Thorburn and Ronnie O’Sullivan who achieved the ultimate feat of clearing the table to register a maximum 147 break. Colour photos throughout, 94pp. £6.99 NOW £2


67362 LIFE IN THE BEAUTIFUL GAME by Bob Wilson


Arsenal legend and veteran BBC and ITV presenter Bob Wilson takes a long, personal look at the sport which has kept him busy for over half a century. We find “Fatty” Foulke and Sir Matt Busby alongside the British Record Score, the list of FA Cup Winners and Division One/ Premier League Champions sandwiching Denis Law and Charlie George and George Best rubbing shoulders with the “Monkeyhangers” of Hartlepool. Discover why Brian Clough got Bob drunk before an interview and why Bill Shankley once locked Bob in a room at the Liverpool training ground. Vivid pen portraits, anecdotes and stats. 472pp paperback. £9.99 NOW £3


68145 BATS, BALLS AND BAILS: The Essential Cricket Book by Les Scott


Here renowned anecdote hunter and gatherer Les Scott sets out his findings on this most sublime of sports. Who was the first player to wear a helmet? When did camels, mackerel and an iguana stop play? From Fred Trueman trivia to Don Bradman’s batting brilliance, the


occasional lack of Grace from the iconic WG to the belligerence of Botham, here are all the great games, characters and cricketing lore, quotes, notes and comprehensive records from counties and minor clubs to international tournaments, not forgetting the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash. 530pp. Illus. £14.99 NOW £5.75


67117 LYONS PRESS HORSEMAN’S DICTIONARY


by Steven Price and Jessie Shiers First published in 2003, we have the new and revised edition with full explanations of terms and phrases used by horsemen. It is a one-stop complete reference that defines and illustrates more than 2000 words and phrases and provides valuable tips on their correct usage. Among other subjects are familiar and exotic equine breeds, competitive disciplines and activities, tack and apparel, anatomy and health and training techniques and equipment. All aspects of English and Western riding and driving are covered in easy to understand language. Includes recent additions such as PMU Soal, Rollkur and ‘hooking on’. Photos and illus. 256 large pages. £18.95 NOW £6.50


67303 MOTTY: Forty Years in the


Commentary Box by John Motson For millions John Motson is the voice of football, the commentator without equal. In his 39 year career he has commentated on over 2,000 matches, including over 50 major finals, and has enjoyed an unparalleled insight into the ups and downs of our national game. He tells of his early days at the BBC and the longstanding but always friendly rivalry between him and the other great commentators like Barry Davies and David Coleman, and the legends of the game who has been honoured to meet. Here are his thoughts on the greatest players and the England managers, and we learn the secret of how he remembers all that trivia. 402pp with 16 pages of colour and b/w photos. £18.99 NOW £4


67319 101 GOLDEN RULES OF GOLF: Tips, Wit and Wisdom to Inform and Entertain by Tony Dear


It includes a great many anecdotes which will bring a knowing smile to any seasoned golfer’s face, and also includes invaluable drills, hints, suggestions and lessons which are sure to improve your game and drive down that handicap. Delightfully produced with watercolour and pen and ink illus. on each page. See why golf’s devotees put themselves through so much mental, physical and financial torture in search of the perfect round. 128pp. £9.99 NOW £3


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Sir, Saturday morning, although recurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always seems to take this railway by surprise.


- W. S. Gilbert, letter to station master, Baker Street


69302 MORE AMAZING AND EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY


FACTS by Julian Holland A celebration of the wonderful and fascinating aspects of Britain’s railway heritage, we travel along the overgrown branch lines of transport history to learn about such obscurities as the turf- and oil- burning steam locomotives, bogus


insurance claims for non-existent injuries from over 100 years ago (plus ça change...), the early model railways from Hornby and Tri-ang, André Michelin’s pneumatic rubber-tyred trains, the difference between a “navvy proper” and a “tramp navvy”, and the two clergymen, other than the celebrated Rev W. Awdry, who famously loved and wrote of the railways. Over 60 entries, each brimming with trivia and nostalgia. 128pp with b/w illus. £9.99 NOW £4.50


69448 WOMEN AT WORK ON LONDON’S TRANSPORT 1905-1978


by Anna Rotondaro This book review is dedicated to Christine Reed our friend and colleague at Bibliophile who retired a few years ago and who had previously worked on the buses. This review copy will be off to her post haste! It is an evocative


collection of images charting the history of women at work from a typist employed by the District Railway in 1905 to the first women bus and Tube drivers in the mid 1970s. After the Second World War ended, women were recalled to continue in the jobs they had been doing so well. However it was not until 1974 and 1975 that laws were finally passed to give women equal rights at work (if not equal pay). Here an assembly worker puts the finishing touches to the section of a Halifax at Leavesden Works in 1941. A photograph shoot on the rooftop shows conductors and porters selected to attend a Victory Day procession on 8th June 1946. Mrs Packer operates a rail tyre-reversing machine in August 1942 and Mrs Bivins and Mrs Hill replace upholstery on a Tube carriage. Over 200 b/w archive photos and other contemporary posters and memorabilia. 128pp in large paperback. £12.99 NOW £3


69524 MINI: The True and Secret History


of the Making of a Motor Car by Simon Garfield


How did a car with a pull-down plastic cable for a door handle and an overpowering smell of damp become an icon? It would take a team of supremely talented designers, draftsmen, engineers and production-line workers to build a


vehicle that was unique in appearance and construction and much loved into the bargain. Today, 50 years after its launch, the Mini continues to make headlines and inspire devotion in those who own it. The author has interviewed 38 of the people who actually made it or who are Mini fanatics. They range through Alex Issigonis a car designer, Frank Stephenson a cool designer, Lord Snowdon a Mini enthusiast, Cedric Scroggs an old-school marketing director, Jean Cummings a trim machinist and Jim McDowell an American vice president to Gabrielle Hummelbrunner an advertising and promotional film coordinator. Their forthright opinions reflect how a car originally designed for austerity and efficiency eventually became a symbol of the age that created it. 286 pages illustrated in colour and b/w with cast of characters. £16.99 NOW £6


69544 UNITED COUNTIES STORY


by Robert Cook and Andrew Shouler The happy days of the omnibus are captured in archive black and white photographs of buses on routes all round the middle of Great Britain. Includes one on its side in the heavy winter snows of 1984 and a rare picture of the same bus (with registration number ONO999) under two different liveries, a marvellous old vehicle. Here is the story of the United Counties Omnibus Company, once one of Britain’s largest and most influential bus companies. From its headquarters in Northampton, its sphere of influence covered most of the south-east Midlands, extending from Stamford and Market Harborough in the north down to Oxford, Aylesbury and Luton in the south, from Daventry in the west to Bedford, Biggleswade and Cambridge in the east. Now part of Stagecoach East, the United Counties was the amalgamation of many small bus operators in the counties as they combined to serve an ever-increasing area. Here too are the strikes, workers’ pay, bus crashes, firsthand reminiscences of male and female workers, their bosses and management, awards dinners for Safe Driving, but best of all, all shapes and sizes of bus, many now missing from our streets. A mix of anecdotes from ex- staff and passengers give the book an unusual angle. So does the bus on page 219, wedged under a canopy and leaning precariously at 45 degrees! 223pp in large softback with many b/w photos.


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68930 TRANSATLANTIC LINERS IN PICTURE POSTCARDS


by Robert McDougall and Robin Gardiner The first transatlantic liner was Brunel’s Great Western, a paddle steamer which made the crossing in 1838, but the classic age of the transatlantic liner was the century from 1870-1970. Southampton became the leading port because the railway terminal was on the dockside, giving ease of access. This fascinating book tells the story of these magnificent transatlantic vessels in an informative text illustrated by picture postcards and archive photos, and also includes details of smaller lines such as Allan, Red Star and Donaldson. Cunard’s Mauretania held the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing for an astonishing 22 years, and the White Star


Company’s answer was to build a new “Olympic” class, of which the doomed Titanic was the second. The inter- war years saw financial struggles as the era of the transatlantic liner gave way to air travel. 128pp, colour photos.


£19.99 NOW £8


66696 TO BE A PILOT: 6th Edition by Ian Penberthy


The first edition of To Be a Pilot was published in 1982. Offered here in its sixth (2008) edition, “Do I have what it takes to be a pilot?” As the editor explains how to hone and develop skills to the level required for a safe and proficient pilot takes a combination of coordination, reflexes, balance and observation. This substantially revised edition includes full details of the recently harmonised EC regulations. Explains fixed-wing and helicopter training courses and what will be required. Contacts and addresses. Colour and b/w photos, 157pp softback.


£12.99 NOW £2.50


67234 BRITISH BUSES: The Golden Years DVD


The golden years of Britain’s buses were the 1950s and 1960s. The service was excellent, the drivers and conductors had real pride in their work and buses had style and individuality. Whether they wore the familiar red of London’s buses or the many and varied liveries of fleets around the country, our DVD is a celebration in unique archive film of many of them. The films mostly come from the unrivalled library of the British Transport Films Collections, digitally remastered here for the first time to bring the best picture quality possible. See buses in action from Cardiff, Ayr, Windsor, Bath and of course London - RTs, Routemasters, RFs, Regents and more. 58 minute colour DVD. ONLY £5


67404 WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LOCOMOTIVES: An International Guide to the


Most Fabulous Train Engines by Colin Garratt


Starting with the British locomotives of the 1830s and the Battle of the Gauges, Part One charts the very beginnings of locomotive design up to 1900, and the early North American freight trains. Part Two spans the glory years of railways such as the American Mikados, Shays and Switchers, the early Canadian freight trains, European mountain power and the enduring steam locomotives of India. Part Three charts the crossover from steam power to diesel and electric and how the locomotive was transformed throughout the world, including the Japanese bullet train and Eurostar. 256 larger pages, 700 colour photos and artworks. ONLY £4.75


67721 BRITAIN’S RAILWAYS FROM THE AIR by John Glover and Ian Hay


These aerial photos reveal the breathtaking complexity of some junctions and interchanges and also show how railway stations are embedded in local communities. Transport for London manages the huge Upminster Depot where cleaning and maintenance is done on District Line trains, while Stanmore, Neasden and Northumberland Park also have huge capacity as seen from above. The diagonally pierced roof of the new Stratford Market Station can only be fully appreciated by the skyborne observer. Among mainline stations the glorious Victorian Gothic architecture of St Pancras has to be supreme, but Nottingham station also has an impressive turn of the century frontage while Waterloo is an art deco landmark with space-age extensions. In strong contrast, some railways have spectacular country and coastal settings. 128pp, superb colour photos. £20 NOW £8


67869 RMS QUEEN ELIZABETH 2nd: The Last


Great Liner by Janette McCutcheon Built at Clydebank, QE2 was the last great ocean liner and the last ship of state built. In 2007 it was announced that she was to retire in November 2008. The Queen’s Room, launderettes, state rooms, hideaways, shops, libraries, midships, restaurants, theatre, grille room, coffee shop, casino, the Lookout Bar and the bridge right down to the indoor pools, engine and boiler rooms and kitchens, here is a glimpse inside with dozens of colour and b/w photos and drawings, newspaper headlines, postcards and posters and of course the many ports she visited, caught in time. Large softback, 96pp. £19.99 NOW £6


68912 LOCOMOTIVE NAMES: An Illustrated Dictionary by Jim Pike


From the earliest days until the end of the 20th century, the names of locomotives are arranged here in alphabetical order, with bold type for the ones which have been preserved. Each engine is listed with date, class, number and railway company, while footnotes give information about unusual features such as name changes or non-standard gauges. Some names are world famous, for instance the steam speed record holder Mallard or the Flying Scotsman, and many are named after places, both major (City of London, City of Truro) and minor (Upminster, St. Just). Landmarks are popular,


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