Dominic Bradbury

Bleak, Thought-Provoking and Brutal

The Football Factory

By John King

David Horspool

You Can Bet Your Life

Imitation Games: How Gambling Hijacked Sport

By Darragh McGee

Barney Ronay

Gloves of Glory

Saved

By Gianluigi Buffon (Translated from Italian by John Foot)

Stephen Smith

Lords of the Ring

'The Sweet Science' at seventy

Michael Taylor

The Beautiful Game

World Cup Fever: A Footballing Journey in Nine Tournaments

By Simon Kuper

The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup

By Jonathan Wilson

Robert Colls

Know the Score

Injury Time: Football in a State of Emergency

By David Goldblatt

Rob Lownie

Going Down Swinging

The Last Bell: Life, Death and Boxing

By Donald McRae

Peter Davidson

Finishing Lines

Simen Gonsholt

Cry Foul

The Penalty Kick: The Story of a Gamechanger

By Robert McCrum

Clive Martin

A Great Advert for the Game

Extra Time Beckons, Penalties Loom: How to Use (and Abuse) the Language of Football

By Adam Hurrey

Norma Clarke

Baseline Blues

The Racket: On Tour with Tennis’s Golden Generation – and the Other 99 Per Cent

By Conor Niland

Kieran Morris

Transfer Saga

Godwin

By Joseph O’Neill

Robert Colls

The Umpire Strikes Back

More Than a Game: A History of How Sport Made Britain

By David Horspool

Miranda Seymour

And It’s Go, Go, Go!

The Race to the Future: The Adventure that Accelerated the Twentieth Century

By Kassia St Clair

Norma Clarke

Running Free

In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors

By Rachel Hewitt