The Great Encyclopedia of Formula 1 1950-2000 - 50 Years of Formula 1
by Pierre Menard, Bernard Cahier (Illustrator), Jean-Francois Galeron (Illustrator), Chronosport (Translator), Bernad Cahier (Introduction), Nigel Roebuck (Introduction)
This book is a result of enormous amount of work. The statistics include also lap charts of every race run until today. Paintings include almost every model of each manufacturer. The pictures on the book could have been perhaps a bit larger, but in the contrast there are lots of them and enourmous amount of information. The book tells the history of every team until today. I would say, this is not quite race by race covery, but most important races for each team each year. Notice that the book is TEAM based, not RACE based, although there is a short common history. The profiles of frontrunner drivers throught the years are also included. The circuits are covered in their every form raced. Even different chicane shapes are shown. Of course some very slight changes to chicanes are missing. A must for the statistics.

Paperback - 864 pages (16 November, 2000)  expected price £67.50  Buy This Book

Total Football II : The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League (Total Football, 2nd Ed) by Bob Carroll (Editor), Michael Gershman, David Neft, John Thorn (Editor)
The book is extremely well organized into interesting categories such as: 1. The 300 Best Players 2. The 100 best Games - outside of the play-offs 3. The details of every draft for every team since the draft was initiated. This feature is my personal favourite since it allows one to objectively analyse the process of building or not building a winner and who did it. 4. The history of every player whoever played - teams - position - performance. Mandatory as a source for all serious discussions on the performance of a player - How we remembered it versus what they really did - very helpful and interesting. Overall this is a MUST book for any serious fan of the NFL.

Hardcover - 1664 pages (September 1999)  expected price £37.58 Buy This Book

A Lot of Hard Yakka by Simon Hughes
Beneath professional cricket's monotonous, poorly paid routine is a soap opera of diverse characters living together through their ups and downs. A Lot of Hard Yakka takes you behind the scenes for a real insight into how the household names of the last two decades--Botham, Brearley, Gatting, Gooch--have made it through. Simon Hughes followed them for 15 years, riding the peaks and troughs with the great, the good and the ghastly. This series of warts-and-all vignettes is revealing,...


Paperback - 311 pages new edition (12 March, 1998)  expected price £5.59  Buy This Book

500 -1   The Miracle of Headingley '81
by Rob Steen, Alistair McLellan, Mike Brearley
The events of 1981 hold a matchless place in the hearts of English cricket fans. For the only time in nearly fifty years, the whole country stood transfixed by the course of a Test series, and the fortunes of the English cricket team became a common topic of conversation in homes, schools, offices and pubs throughout the country. Over the course of that summer, during the Third Test, England came from 1-0 down to retain the Ashes 3-1. The events of that match, and the exploits of Ian Botham........


Hardcover - 267 pages (8 June, 2001)  expected price £13.59  Buy This Book

The Mystery Spinner
by Gideon Haigh
Jack Iverson played five Tests for Australia half a century ago. His first-class career lasted barely three years. Not obvious material for a 376-page biography, but Gideon Haigh has written a superb book about him. Iverson didn't play top-flight cricket until he was 31. His rise thereafter was meteoric, but he never quite believed in himself and quickly abandoned playing for both Australia and his state, Victoria. He had a key role in retaining the Ashes for Australia in 1950-51 but then declared himself unavailable.


Hardcover - 376 pages (20 May, 2000)  expected price £16.14  Buy This Book

The Great Olympic Swindle
by Andrew Jennings

Andrew Jennings has spent a decade rooting out the "culture of corruption" endemic in the International Olympic Committee. This book is a blow-by-blow account of how Salt Lake City bribed its way to winning the 2002 Winter Olympics, and the crisis this produced within the IOC. His energy in pursuing his quarry is remarkable....


Hardcover - 390 pages (24 July, 2000)  expected price £13.59  Buy This Book

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