Jack Lovelock - Athlete and Doctor by Graeme Woodfield
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Jack Lovelock remains one of New Zealand's greatest sportsmen, the diminutive figure in black who, "running in a rapture", won the Olympic 1500m gold medal in world record time in front of Hitler in 1936. Despite his fame, Lovelock has been an enigmatic, elusive figure. This prompted fellow Timaru Boys' ...Show more
A Centennial History of the West End Rowing Club 1884-1984 - ne Hundred years in St Mary's Bay by David W Conway
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Sport History | Reading Level: very good
Will to Win - New Zealand netball greats on team culture and leadership by Lana McCarthy; Andy Martin; Geoff Watson
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Sport History | Reading Level: near fine
A fascinating deep-dive into the development of the Silver Ferns traditions, the evolution of team culture and the nuts-and-bolts of leadership at an elite sporting level. The 12 legendary players and coaches interviewed including Lois Muir, Leigh Gibbs, Sandra Edge, Bernice Mene, Ruth Aitken and Casey ...Show more
Brutal - The 100 Year Fight for World Rugby Supremacy by Ron Palenski
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Sport History | Reading Level: near fine
This year marks a hundred years of the greatest rivalry the rugby world has known, New Zealand against South Africa. These titans first met on a test field in 1921 and, coincidentally, in the hundredth year of their battle for supremacy, they will also play their 100th test. The intense, unmatched rival ...Show more
Replay - Capturing 20 years of New Zealand sporting glory by Andrew Conaga
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Produced in partnership with award-winning photographic agency Photosport on its 20th anniversary, this unique book revisits the highs and lows, the agony and ecstasy, the magic and the melodrama of the past 20 years in New Zealand sport. From New Zealand's winning streak in the 1992 Cricket World Cup t ...Show more
A Whole New Ball Game - Confronting the myths and realities of New Zealand rugby by Paul Thomas
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Sport History | Reading Level: very good
Despite the evidence that New Zealand rugby has managed the transition to professionalism reasonably well, there is a perception that the game has lost its way and is in serious decline at the grassroots. Is our national sport really facing a crisis? Award-winning writer Paul Thomas examines rugby from ...Show more
New Zealand Rugby Country - How the game shaped our nation by Desmond Wood
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Sport History | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand is arguably the greatest rugby-playing country on the planet. From the beginning, this classless society captured the game founded in the English class system and made it its own. New Zealanders not only adopted the game but also introduced many innovations, along with adding to an unmatched ...Show more
How to Watch a Game of Rugby by Spiro Zavos
$12.00 NZD
Category: NZ Sport History | Series: Ginger Series | Reading Level: very good
In How to Watch a Game of Rugby, Zavos shares his love and knowledge of the sport with wit and warmth, and passes on some illuminating pointers. Anyone who has ever wondered what the difference is between a ruck and a maul, or a fly half and a fullback, will find this book illuminating. But if you alrea ...Show more
1905 - The Triumphant Tour of the NZ Footballers by George Dixon
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Sport History | Reading Level: very good
A facsimile of the original tour book written by the manager, with a complete record of every match played by the Original All Blacks.
100 Years of College Rifles 1897-1997 - By Paul Neazor by Paul Neazor
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Sport History | Reading Level: very good
Fred the Needle - The Untold Story of Sir Fred Allen by Alan Sayers; Les Watkins
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Sport History | Reading Level: near fine
At last, the book they said would never be published. Few New Zealand rugby personalities can truly be labelled "legends". Sir Fred Allen, though, is one of those rare exceptions. Along with the great Colin Meads, Allen is an icon of the game, universally loved and a true New Zealand hero. For years, th ...Show more
John Walker Champion (Signed) by Ron Palenski
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Sport History | Reading Level: very good