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{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Hurst -->Hurst_Norfolk|-title=On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"John Hurst|rating=4[[image:Hurst_Norfolk.jpg|leftgenre=Art|linksummary=httpsIt was pure serendipity://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/095444003X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbagafter a five-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=095444003X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks by John Hurst]]=== [[image:5starhour drive, we were, annoyingly, left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the keys to our holiday cottage.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Art|Art]]There was an art exhibition in the church hall,[[:Category:Sport|Sport]] It was pure serendipity: after so we went in - and found a five-hour drive we were, annoyinglydisplay of the most gorgeous pictures. I'd cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on our walls, left but thought that I would have to make do with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the keys to our holiday cottagea couple of greetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' and I couldn't resist buying it. There was an art exhibition in the church hall, so we went }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Ignotofsky_Sport|title=Women in - and found a display of the most gorgeous pictures. ISport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=5|genre=Children'd cheerfully have bought every one s Non-Fiction|summary=''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and hung them on our walls, but thought that I would have to make do with a couple half of the development of greetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'women' s sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and I couldn't resist buying itmuch more. [[On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks by John Hurst|Full Review]] <!Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is a double-- Burrell -->page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=Burrell_12| styletitle="widthTwelve Times To The Max: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|One Man's Journey to, and Recollections of, Setting Twelve Verified World Records[[image:Burrell_12.jpg|leftauthor=Stuart Burrell|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/154712251X?ie4|genre=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=154712251X]] Sport| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Twelve Times To The Max: One ManThe first of Stuart Burrell's Journey toworld records, and Recollections ofwell, the first two, actually, Setting Twelve Verified World Records as he's not a man to do things by Stuart Burrell]]=== [[image:4starhalves, came about by accident.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Sport|Sport]] The first of Stuart Burrell's world records, well, There had been a plan to raise some money for the Children in Need Charity and quite late on the people who were to have been the first two, actually, as he's main attraction got a better offer and Burrell is not a man to do things by halves, came about by accidentlet people down. There had been a plan What could be done to bring people in and raise some money for the Children in Need Charity and quite late on the people who were to have been the main attraction got a better offer ? Most of us would have thought of jumble sales and cake bakes, but Burrell is not had made a man to let people down. What could be done to bring people in hobby of escapology and raise some money? Most idea of us would have thought of jumble sales and cake bakes, but Burrell had made a hobby of escapology and idea of a a sponsored escape had life breathed into it. On 3 November 2002 , he went for the Fastest Handcuff Escape world record and immediately afterwards Most Handcuffs Escaped in One Hour. Both were successful and more than £300 was raised for Children in Need. [[Twelve Times To The Max: One Man's Journey to, and Recollections of, Setting Twelve Verified World Records by Stuart Burrell|Full Review]]}}{{Frontpage<!-- |isbn=Landreth_Swell|title=Swell |author=Jenny Landreth -->|-rating=5| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Sport[[image:Landreth_Swell.jpg|left|linksummary=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1472938941?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1472938941]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Swell by Jenny Landreth]]=== [[image:5starI love Jenny's own description of her book as a waterbiography and I love her encouragement that we should each write our own.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Sport|Sport]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] I love Jenny This is more than just (I say ''just''!) a recollection of the author's own description encounters with water; it's also a history of her book as a waterbiography and I love her encouragement that we should each write our ownwomen's fight for the right to swim. This is more than just (I say ''just''!) That sounds absurd until you start reading about it, then it becomes serious. Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a recollection lover of the author's own encounters with water; it's also absurd. Not a history lover of women's fight for the right book blurbs myself, I do always seek to give a shout-out to swim. That sounds absurd until you start reading about those who get itdead right: in this case, then it becomes serious. Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a lover of I'm definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's ''giggles-on-the absurd-commute funny''. Not a lover of book blurbs myself, I do always seek }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Oakeshott_Derby|title=A Guide to give a shout-out the Classics: Or How to those who get it dead right: in this case I'm definitely with Alexandra HeminsleyPick the Derby Winner|author=Guy Griffith and Michael Oakeshott|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=It's ''giggles-on-not often that you get a glimpse into the personal, youthful interests of one of thegreatest Conservative philosophers of the twentieth century, but ''A Guide to the Classics'' co-commute funny''. [[Swell by Jenny Landreth|Full Review]] <!-- authored by Michael Oakeshott is a light-->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Oakeshott_Derbyhearted look at how to pick the Derby winner. Originally written in 1936 it is, amazingly, as relevant today as it was then.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/184540937X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=184540937X]]In fact, the techniques and analysis employed by the authors were way ahead of their time and have only come into general use relatively recently.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Gibbons_Game| styletitle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"The Beautiful Game|author=Alan Gibbons|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=[[A Guide to Football is all about its colours. And even if I write in the Classics: Or How to Pick the Derby Winner by Guy Griffith and Michael Oakeshott]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Sport|Sport]] It'season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue from the throne of English football, it's not often common knowledge that you get a glimpse into red is the personal, youthful interests of one more successful colour to wear. But is that flame red? Blood red? The red of the greatest Conservative philosophers of the twentieth century, but A Guide to the Classics co-authored by Michael Oakeshott is Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a light-hearted look at how to pick tragedy – and that it had been one of their own making? And while we're on about colour, where were the Derby winner. Originally written people of colour in 1936 football in the olden days? There are so many darker sides to football's history it is, amazingly, as relevant today as it was then. In fact, 's enough to make a young lad question the techniques and analysis employed by the authors were way ahead of their time and have only come into general use relatively recently. [[A Guide to the Classicswhole game…}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Askwith_Today|title=Today We Die a Little: Or How Emil Zatopek, Olympic Legend to Pick the Derby Winner by Guy Griffith and Michael OakeshottCold War Hero|Full Review]]author=Richard Askwith <!-- Gibbons -->|rating=4|-genre=Sport| stylesummary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Gibbons_GameAs a runner myself, I often look for sources of inspiration.jpg|link=http://wwwTraining is rewarding, but every so often a day comes along when I question whether it is all worth it or not.amazon.coZatopek proves that is, indeed, all worth it.uk/dp/1781126917/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Beautiful Game by Alan Gibbons]]===He put copious amounts of effort into his training, and the number of races he won over his career as a professional athlete clearly shows the results of it.}}{{Frontpage[[image:4star.jpg|linkisbn=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia FriendlyPavey_Mum|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Sporttitle=This Mum Runs|Sport]]author=Jo Pavey|rating=4Football is all about its colours. And even if |genre=Sport|summary=I write in the season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue from am something of a self-confessed running addict: I think nothing of hitting the throne of English footballroads for 50 miles a week, it's common knowledge that red is and spend much of my time searching for races to run all over the more successful colour to wearcountry. But That is that flame red? Blood red? The red of the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught , until I wound up with a persistent sports injury, hung up in my running shoes for nearly a tragedy – year, and that it had been one switched the road to the pool. At the time I thought nothing could alleviate the misery of their own making? And while wenot being able to run; but now I wish I had had Jo Pavey're on about colours autobiography, where were ''This Mum Runs'', to keep me company because the people elite athlete’s account of colour in football in the olden days? There are so many darker sides to football's history it's enough to make a young lad question the whole game…[[The Beautiful Game by Alan Gibbons|Full Review]]Olympics, injury, family, and life, in general, falls nothing short of inspirational.}}<!-- Askwith -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Askwith_Today.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0224100351/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Today We Die a Little: Emil Zatopek, Olympic Legend to Cold War Hero by Richard Askwith]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Sport|Sport]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] As a runner myself, I often look for sources of inspiration. Training is rewarding, but every so often a day comes along when I question whether it is all worth it or not. Zatopek proves that is, indeed, all worth it. He put copious amounts of effort into his training, and the number of races he won over his career as a professional athlete clearly shows the results of it. [[Today We Die a Little: Emil Zatopek, Olympic Legend to Cold War Hero by Richard Askwith|Full Review]] <!-- Pavey -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|0224100432 | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[This Mum Runs by Jo Pavey]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Sport|Sport]] I am something of a self-confessed running addict: I think nothing of hitting the roads for 50 miles a week, and spend much of my time searching for races to run all over the country. That is, until I wound up with a persistent sports injury, hung up my running shoes for nearly a year, and switched the road to the pool. At the time I thought nothing could alleviate the misery of not being able to run; but now I wish I had had Jo Pavey's autobiography, ''This Mum Runs'', to keep me company because the elite athlete’s account of the Olympics, injury, family, and life in general falls nothing short of inspirational. [[This Mum Runs by Jo Pavey|Full Review]]{{Frontpage <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|isbn=Lee_Lean|} {{newreviewtitle=Lean Gains

|summary=I don't often begin a book by telling you what it ''isn't'' but in this case I think it's important. If you're a fairly sedentary person or a casual sportsman or woman looking to shed a few pounds then you won't get the best out of this book. You'll find some good advice about diet, but I'm afraid that much of it is going to go over your head. Of course you could always take up a sport seriously... On the other hand, if you ''are'' a serious sportsman then you could find that the advice in ''Lean Gains'' could lift you up to the next level of performance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463493X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Long_Mock|title=The Mock Olympian

|summary=It started with an idle conversation just before the 2012 London Olympics: Michael Long's friend Sarah gave him a book as part of his birthday present. It was ''Time Out's'' guide to the history of the Olympics and it covered each of the summer Olympics in chronological order from the inaugural games in Athens in 1896. Sarah's boyfriend James commented that with all the running Michael did, he'd probably have run in most of the Olympic cities. Although Long had done a goodly number of runs, bike rides and triathlons he'd only competed in two of the twenty -three cities - London and Athens. Now most of us would have left it at that, but that's not the Michael Long you're going to come to know and love. He saw it as a ''challenge'' and what's more , he blogged about it and then wrote this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662887</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Roberts_Home|title=Home and Away

|summary= For most football fans, non-league clubs (that is, teams who play outside the top four divisions of English football) are like a distant relative fallen on hard times; you're vaguely aware of their existence but have no particular wish to visit them. Apart from a few weeks in early January, when the odd non-league club reaches the third round of the FA cup and embarks on a spot of giant -killing, the lower leagues receive almost no attention outside their small groups of devoted supporters. So what's it like to support a non-league team? Enter Dave Roberts, a fan of Bromley FC who are currently plying their trade in the Vanarama National League – the fifth tier of English football. In ''Home and Away'', Dave documents the highs and lows of travelling the country watching Bromley during the 2015/2016 season.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>059307680X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Mcgrath_Darley|title=Mr Darley's Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in 25 Horses

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Mills_Top|title=Top Of The League

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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Bradbury_Walks|title=Unforgettable Walks

|genre=TravelSport|summary=I've long been a fan of Julia Bradbury's walking programmes on television - I credit her with sparking my own interest in walking - so the news that there would shortly be another series of programmes ''and'' a book to accompany the series was music to my ears. This time she's looking at Britain's best walks with a view and she roams through Dorset, the Cotswolds, Anglesey, the Yorkshire Dales, the Lakes, Cumbria, the South Downs and the Peak District. Unless you're in Scotland there's something reasonably close to just about everyone, with a good spread around all points of the compass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784298840</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Guy MartinMartin_When|title= When You Dead, You Dead|author=Guy Martin|rating= 4.5|genre= AutobiographySport|summary= It's a little depressing when a 34 -year -old is publishing his second autobiography, but that's what this book is, and Martin proves he's certainly not short on material. The author, for those of you who don't know, is a mechanic who dabbles in TV presenting and motorcycle racing, though it's the latter for which we he will be most well-known.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753556669</amazonuk>As an F1 widow to a boy who likes all things fast, I thought he might like this book and so, perhaps unusually, I chose it with someone else in mind but made myself read it first.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Mccoy_Winner|title=Winner: My Racing Life

|genre=AutobiographySport|summary=In any walk of life , there are people who are universally known by their first names alone. In flat racing, everyone knows who 'Frankie' is and in National Hunt , you need to say no more than 'A.P.' Legend is an over-used word but not when it comes to the achievements of Tony 'A.P.' McCoy. He's been champion jockey an unprecedented twenty times and his career record of 4,348 wins may never be beaten. In fact, it's tempting to say that it will ''never'' be beaten. He's won the Grand National, the Irish Grand National, two Cheltenham Gold Cups and won the Champion Hurdle three times. Unusually for a jockey , he's also been BBC Sports Personality of the Year. He achieved all this by the age of forty one when he retired from racing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409162397</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Krien_Night|title=Night Games: A Journey to the Dark Side of Sport

|summary=Mere mortals relax by having a game of footy of a weekend and a couple of drinks, but what does a professional sportsman do to cut loose? What do they do when they go out en masse? Investigative journalist Anna Krien looks at a rape trial of an Australian Rules footballer, just into his twenties and follows the case as it goes to court, interviewing some of those directly or indirectly involved and digressing into related areas. In deference to the fact that the woman had automatic anonymity , she's chosen to give the man who was charged the name of 'JustinDyer' in an attempt to level the playing field, so to speak. You could Google the facts and come up with the correct name, but this isn't a book of gossip about particular people. It's an investigation of a culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commodities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224100033</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Scott_Born|title=Born to Rumble

|summary=''Rumble''. It's an odd word, isn't it, with that sense of a noise like thunder (or even of a motorcycle engine) ''and'' of a street fight between rival gangs. Author Jeff Scott has picked the perfect title for his journey around various speedway venues looking at those occasions when the combination of brakeless bikes, adrenalin, ridiculous speeds and not a lot of space explode into a confrontation on or off the track. It's hardly surprising that it happens - in fact , it's surprising that it doesn't happen more often given the competitive nature of the sport and the diva-like qualities of some of the top riders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956861849</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Red Szell|title=The Blind Man of Hoy: A True Story|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Redmond Széll was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) at age 19. It's now 26 years since he got the life-changing news. Although not completely sightless – he sees shadows and shapes – he is registered blind and walks with the stereotypical white stick. This hasn't stopped him from pursuing his hobby of rock-climbing, though, both indoors on climbing walls and on Britain's cliffs. The culmination of his climbing obsession came in 2013, when he became the first blind person to climb the Old Man of Hoy, the 449-foot cliff off the Orkney Islands of Scotland.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124222</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jeff Scott and Rachael Adams|title=Strictly Shale: Circling British Speedway|rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summary=When I was young I remember Speedway being a regular item on Saturday sport programmes on television. My father was an aficionado and loved the noise, the risk and the sheer energy of the sport - my mother less so and she quoted the noise and the strong possibility of there being 'a nasty accident' when the riders slid their motorcycles sideways. It is still on television but I'll confess to not having watched for many years and it was for this reason that Jeff Scott's ''Strictly Shale'' achieved the unusual feat of both being an eye opener and bringing back long-forgotten memories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956861830</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tom Palmer|title=Over The Line|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Jack Cock made his debut as a professional footballer for Huddersfield Town and that fragile dream of playing for his country came just a little bit closer, but this was just before the beginning of the First World War, when there was immense pressure on young men to do the honourable thing and join the war to fight in France. ''Over the Line'' is the story of Jack's war, of joining the Footballers' Battalion, playing in the Flanders Cup, fighting in the trenches and not just surviving but being decorated for bravery. After the war he scored England's first international goal and was one of the first of the modern generation of 'professional footballers'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123934</amazonuk>