WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2016. Surfing only looks like a sport. To devotees, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a mental and physical study, a passionate way of life. William Finnegan first started surfing as a young...

'Byrne comes across like a post-punk Michael Palin.' Sephen Dalton, The Times 'An engaging book; part-diary, part-manifesto.' Observer David Byrne, co-founder of the group Talking Heads, has been riding a bicycle as his principal means of transportation...

Over the course of fifteen years, John Delaney ran the Football Association of Ireland as his own personal fiefdom. He had his critics, but his power was never seriously challenged until last year, when Mark Tighe and Paul Rowan published a sequence of...

When private equity fund Arkaga suddenly remove funding from Cork City FC, author Neal Horgan and his fellow players are caught completely unawares. ...the radio announces, “Cork City FC is looking to go into examinership, with reported debts of up to...

When football players leave Ireland behind in the hopes of carving out a future in the professional game, they often end up plying their trade in the UK –competing for a chance in the Premier League, the Scottish Premiership, or the numerous leagues...

This book covers the history of Neptune Basketball Club from 1947 to the present as told by its longest serving member, and while it refers to games, trophies, and tournaments, it concentrates on the social, cultural and community aspects of the clubs...

'Informative and persuasive enough to rouse the most ardent couch pototo' New Scientist Walking upright on two feet is a uniquely human skill. It defines us as a species. It enabled us to walk out of Africa and to spread as far as Alaska and Australia.It...

Sport and sporting pastimes have always been an important part of life in Cork. What is remarkable about Cork sports men and women is their success across the entire range of sporting disciplines. There can be no true criteria for measuring the quality...

MARATHON MAN is an uplifting story of an extraordinary achievement – all the more gripping given that the author was an inexperienced long-distance runner and only 20 when embarking on his mission to run 35 marathons in 35 consecutive days. Alan...

eter Schmeichel is an undisputed giant of the global game and One: My Autobiography is his story. As a serial winner and larger-than-life character with Manchester United and Denmark, he rivalled Gordon Banks and Lev Yashin as the world's greatest...

In the autumn of 2010, a little-known New Zealander called Joe Schmidt took over as head coach at Leinster.He had never been in charge of a professional team. After Leinster lost three of their first four games, a prominent Irish rugby pundit speculated...

From the hills of south Lebanon to the monsoon jungles of Southern Asia, Ray Goggins has operated in a life-and-death world. In the suffocating humidity of Liberia, the mountains of Afghanistan and the snow-covered Balkans, Ray has seen the best and...

They say that being a good doctor boils down to just four things: Shut up, listen, know something, care. The same could be said for life on the road, too. When Stephen Fabes left his job as a junior doctor and set out to cycle around the world, frontline...

Brian Keane's philosophy is simple: any diet will work so long as you stick to it. His goal is clear: to help you find the mindset and unique personal motivation that will enable you to stick to your fitness and nutrition plan and become leaner, stronger...

With a foreword by Dr John Nunn, Grandmaster and four times Olypic gold medallist'The Mammoth Book of Chess is a cracker . . .nobody will fail to find something new here' British Chess MagazineWINNER OF THE BRITISH CHESS FEDERATION BOOK OF THE YEAR...