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of the peloton, from Team Sky and Ineos Grenadiers’ Rowe.
John Scally
Where Heroes Are Made: Legendary GAA People and the Places That Made Them
Black & White Publishing, 7th, £10.99, 9781785308628
Iconic locations from Gaelic football, the people linked to them and the stories woven within them.
Jonathan Wilson The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup
Abacus, 7th, £12.99, 9780349145730
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global geopolitics. Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.
Mary Earps All In: Football, Life and Learning to be Unapologetically Me Leap, 14th, £10.99, 9781806171316 Memoir from former Lioness, 2023 BBC Sports Personality of the Year and current Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper Earps.
Chris Evans How To Win The World Cup: Secrets and Insights from International Football’s Top Managers
Bloomsbury Sport, 7th, £10.99, 9781472990747
Advice from the world’s best football managers on how to achieve international success, featuring input from Alexi Lalas, Roberto Martínez, Mick McCarthy and more. Updated in paperback ahead of the men’s FIFA World Cup in June and July.
Duncan Ferguson Big Dunc Penguin, 21st, £10.99, 9781804951842
Autobiography of Everton and Scotland striker Ferguson.
Peter Grimsdale Superveloce: How Italian Cars Conquered the World
S&S, 7th, £10.99, 9781398513051
How the early years of Formula 1 during the 1950s saw the unlikely rise of Italian engineering.
Simon Lazenby Pressure: How the People Who Power Formula One Thrive at the Limits
Ebury Spotlight, 7th, £11.99, 9781529939309
Sky Sports broadcaster Lazenby goes
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behind-the-scenes of Formula 1.
Ciarán Murphy Old Parish: Notes on Hurling
Penguin, 1st, £11.99, 9781405973526
A 41-year-old newcomer to hurling explores the history, geography and attraction of the sport.
Oisin Murphy Sacrifice: A Year in the Life of a Champion Jockey
Penguin (Transworld), 28th, £11.99, 9781804996966
Memoir of four-time champion jockey Murphy, opening up on a life shaped by elite horseracing and alcohol addiction.
Jonathan Northcroft, Rob Draper Dear England: Behind the Scenes of the Three Lions’ World Cup Dream
Blink Publishing, 7th, £10.99, 9781785122545
Ahead of this summer’s FIFA World Cup, held across Canada, Mexico and the US, an account of the changes that have revolutionised the men’s England team over the past decade.
Martin O’Neill
The Changing Game Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction, 21st, £14.99, 9781035430031
Reflections on a career in football management at the highest level, from Nottingham Forest to Leicester City, Celtic and the Republic of Ireland. Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Sports Book of the Year.
Luke Rowe Road Captain: My Life at the Heart of the Peloton
Penguin (Transworld), 28th, £11.99, 9781804997277
Pro cycling insights on the inner workings
A history of football’s World Cup, set in the context of global history. “Definitive account of the world’s greatest sporting festival,” said the Literary Review.
Ben Youngs Beyond the Line Pan, 7th, £10.99, 9781035069224 Rugby Union’s Youngs charts how a successful career on the pitch often masked a low time off it.
Travel
Ben Aitken Shitty Breaks: A Celebration of Unsung Cities
Icon Books, 7th, £9.99, 9781837730483
Visits to some of the least visited cities in the UK and Ireland (and Gibraltar), in search of little-known virtues and hidden gems.
Stefan Arestis, Sebastien Chaneac Out in the World: The Gay Guide to Travelling with Pride
Pavilion, 21st, £16.99, 9780008735494
Guide to LGBTQ+ global travel from Arestis and Chaneac, known across social media as the Nomadic Boys with more than 215,000 followers on Instagram.
Tom Chesshyre ( 13) Slow Trains Around Britain: Notes from a 4,088-Mile Adventure on 143 Rides
Summersdale, 14th, £10.99, 9781837997848
A celebration of 200 years through a tour around the UK’s railways, heritage and modern, beginning and ending in Darlington.
Daniel Gray Sunday Best: Travels Through the Day of Rest
HarperNorth, 21st, £9.99, 9780008823771
Mixing travelogue and social history, how
Norman Lewis A Quiet Evening Eland, 21st, £19.99, 9781780601557
Thirty-six of Lewis’ best articles spanning five decades documenting travels from Yemen to Central America.
Jake Morris-Campbell Between the Salt and the Ash: A Journey into the Soul of Northumbria MUP, 18th, £12.99, 9781526175373 A walk from the Holy Island of Lindisfarne to Durham Cathedral, considering the region’s deep past and the uncertain future.
True crime
Christopher Berry-Dee Talking with Serial Killers: Murderous Medics
John Blake, 21st, £9.99, 9781789468120
Study of murders committed by doctors and other medical professionals.
Hope Reese The Women Are Not Fine
Brazen, 7th, £10.99, 9781840918427
Personal exploration of the village where a group of women collaborated in a mass-poisoning in interwar Hungary.
Ali Watkins The Next One Is for You: A True Story of Guns, Country and the IRA’s Secret American Army
Icon Books, 21st, £9.99, 9781837730414
How a group of Philadelphia gunrunners armed the IRA at the height of the Troubles.
Reissues
Sebastian Barry A Thousand Moons Faber, 7th, £9.99, 9780571333394 A handful of Barry’s backlist are reissued in a new look ahead of his new hardback novel The Newer World, due in September.
WE Bowman The Ascent of Rum Doodle
Vintage Classics, 21st, £9.99, 9780099530381
Cult mountaineering parody is reissued as a red-spine Vintage Classic to celebrate its 70th anniversary. Introduced by Bill Bryson.
Clemence Dane Regiment of Women Penguin Michael Joseph, 28th, £12.99, 9780241825112
Sundays inhabit a unique place in our leisure time, seen from the Hebrides to Hyde Park.
First published in 1917, this novel about a complicated relationship between a teacher and pupil at a private girls’ school in a small Edwardian town is said to have inspired Radclyffe Hall to write The Well of Loneliness. New addition to the Mermaid Collection series, celebrating neglected works of popular 20th-century fiction, with a beautiful painted cover, French flaps and a foreword by Jacqueline Wilson.
Carter Dickson (AKA John Dickson Carr) The Unicorn Murders
Crime Classics, 7th, £10.99, 9780712369305
A French chateau plays host to murder in the fourth Henry Merrivale detective tale, first published in 1936, reissued as the 150th British Library Crime Classic.
Daphne du Maurier The Scapegoat Virago, 2nd, £10.99, 9780349020754
One of a quartet of four “uncanny thrillers” by du Maurier reissued in bold coloured modern covers. Reissued alongside Julius, The Flight of the Falcon and The House on the Strand.
Allen Ginsberg Selected Poems 1947-1995
Penguin Modern Classics, 14th, £12.99, 9781837314140
Selection of Ginsberg’s poetry reissued ahead of the centenary of his birth in June.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon Sunset Song Polygon, 7th, £9.99, 9781846977510
Striking cover for the classic novel, voted favourite Scottish book of all time in a 2016 BBC Scotland poll. Foreword by Kapka Kassabova.
Neil M Gunn, Alan Riach (intr) The Grey Coast
North House Press, 21st, £15, HB, 9781918204001
Centenary edition of Gunn’s debut. Reissued alongside Gunn’s The Serpent and Blood Hunt as launch titles by new Sutherland- based Scottish press North House.
MAR Habib,
Bruce B Lawrence (trans) The Qur’an: A Verse Translation
WW Norton, 19th, £18.99, 9781324098546
Accessible new English verse translation produced through a
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