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Reveal Your Chess Style


Are you a Kasparov, a Carlsen or a Fischer? Use this book to identify your own unique chess style and discover how it aligns with the tactics of the game’s greatest players. Then explore tips and tricks that help you avoid pitfalls, improve your strengths and become the best player you can be.Every chess player has a naturally individual style of playing, based on the moves they like to play. Some people choose the kind of moves world champion Magnus Carlsen regularly uses, while others prefer a strategy favoured by the legendary Bobby Fischer. And some even find themselves emulating the way a chess computer works. But very few players are aware of how these moves fit together to create a consistent, personal chess style.Reveal Your Chess Style contains 100 diagrams, each with a multiple choice of possible moves for the reader to choose from. Analysing the answers will explain how the reader’s choices reveal their hidden style, and which famous player they most identify with on the chessboard.A host of advice is also included, on developing the player''s style further to avoid regular errors, increase skill and win more games – or they may want to adopt traits from other styles instead! This truly original book, from an International Grandmaster and venerable chess author, is a must-have for anyone who wants to improve their game and really get to know themselves as a chess player.
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25,49 €

Reeds Western Almanac 2026


The Reeds Western Almanac covers the British coastline from Cape Wrath to Padstow as well as the whole of Ireland, providing navigation and pilotage information for the coasts of Wales, Western Scotland, Ireland and Western England. Completely updated for 2026, it offers ready access to essential navigation information by virtue of its clear layout and user friendly format. Topics include seamanship, pilotage, tide tables, safety procedures, navigation tips, radio, lights, waypoints, weather forecast information, communications, Mayday and distress procedures. The large type size and clear layout, including full colour harbour plans and diagrams throughout, makes information easy to read even in adverse conditions. It is the complete guide for both Irish and Welsh mariners as well as those cruising the UK west coast.Includes a free Reeds Marina Guide.Also available: free supplements of up-to-date navigation changes from January to June at: www.reedsnauticalalmanac.co.uk''There are some things I would not go to sea without - Reeds is one of them.''Sir Chay Blyth
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55,49 €

The Battle for Newcastle United


Funny and poignant coming-of-age story about a life spent following one of England''s most brilliantly chaotic football clubs – Newcastle United.Debut book by Andrew Nagy, journalist for GQ, Esquire and Men''s Health.Andrew was only 16 in 1992 and, as the UK stormed into its most hedonistic decade since the ''60s, he was on a swashbuckling adventure of his own, supporting the new Premier League''s most exciting football team.A must-read for all Magpies fans, The Battle for Newcastle United includes:A riveting dual timeline narrative – encompassing both the 1990s and modern day football – packed with warm nostalgia and current crisis pointsTales of fake sheikhs and foul-mouthed gaffers, superstar signings and downright shady dealings, gun-toting Colombians and mysterious Uruguayans, relegation and promotionVarious laugh-out-loud moments – not least the author''s account of a dodgy B&B on semi-final weekend that gave rise to an elderly lady honeypot situationA frank look at negligent ownership, state control and football obsessionStarring the unadulterated joy of Kevin Keegan''s Entertainers and the soulless trudge of Mike Ashley''s zombified Magpies, this book is about why we fall in love with football … and a warning about what can happen when that love is pushed to the very limit.
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25,49 €

Worst Game Ever


Discover the rock-bottom moments in the histories of 19 disparate football clubs, through stories rich in colour and context that rarely have a happy ending – but which every fan can relate to. By Phil Harrison, author of the critically acclaimed Inside the Hermit Kingdom: Football Stories from Stalinist Albania – as featured by The Guardian and Daily Mail.Showcasing a miscellany of spectacularly diverse stories from the last five decades from across Europe, this unique book includes:Six guest chapters featuring the pained recollections of established authors (Alex Ireland, Miguel Lourenço Pereira, Paul McQuade), ex-professional footballers (Richard Shaw), musicians (Jonny and Tom Foster; Hardwicke Circus) and social media influencers (Michael Hamlen)Tales involving many of Europe''s biggest clubs: Ajax, Barcelona, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Celtic, Manchester United and City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Aston Villa and many moreA close look at the meteoric, single-season rise and fall of Bayer 04, Barcelona''s abortive attempt to quell the demons of Francoist Spanish rule, Ajax''s staggering 2014 KNVB Cup Final fail, the end of Manchester City''s first golden era and Arsenal''s 70-game traipse towards oblivionFilled with accounts of the bad and the ugly football experiences that changed the lives of fans – and not in a good way – this gripping book serves as a reminder that football, for most fans, is a perpetual vortex of anguish, near misses and abject disappointment.
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19,99 €

The Utilita Football Yearbook 2025-2026


''The definitive chronicle of changing times for so many who love the sport'' Ian Herbert, Daily Mail''The Yearbook stands for authority and integrity'' Martin Tyler''The first reference book you should turn to'' Daily TelegraphThe Utilita Football Yearbook 2025-2026 is the market-leading book of football statistics, featuring everything you need to know about domestic and international football.Since its first appearance in 1970, The Football Yearbook has heralded the start of each new season and served as the sport''s book of record, faithfully chronicling decades of both tradition and evolution.Now in its 56th year of publication, the Yearbook celebrates that legacy and undertakes to do what it always does - to meticulously record the season just gone and look forward to the season about to start, all within more than a thousand pages of pure footballing facts and figures.
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76,99 €

The Little Book of Aston Villa


Few clubs can boast a history as rich as Aston Villa Football Club. Founded in 1874, they have played in their home ground of Villa Park in Birmingham since 1897. Aston Villa is not only one of the oldest clubs in England but among some of the most successful. Having won the FA cup seven times and the League Cup five times, Aston Villa ranks 5th in the all-time English top flight table and is the seventh most successful club in English football by competitive honours. Villa is one of only three clubs that were founding members of both the Football League in 1888 and the Premier League in 1992. Despite its overall prosperity, Villa has experienced ups and downs, including relegation from the Premier League in 2016. However, after three seasons in the EFL Championship and two ownership changes, the club returned to the Premier League in 2019, and in 2024, qualified for the UEFA Champions League for the first time since 1982. From Pongo Waring, 'Big Ron' Atkinson and 'Deadly Doug' Ellis to Peter Withe, Gary Shaw, Gareth Southgate, Dwight Yoke and Jack Grealish, hear from the bold voices that have shaped Aston Villa over the years and re-live the highs and lows of this historic club.
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9,99 €

The Utilita Football Yearbook 2025-2026


''The definitive chronicle of changing times for so many who love the sport'' Ian Herbert, Daily Mail''The Yearbook stands for authority and integrity'' Martin Tyler''The first reference book you should turn to'' Daily TelegraphThe Utilita Football Yearbook 2025-2026 is the market-leading book of football statistics, featuring everything you need to know about domestic and international football.Since its first appearance in 1970, The Football Yearbook has heralded the start of each new season and served as the sport''s book of record, faithfully chronicling decades of both tradition and evolution.Now in its 56th year of publication, the Yearbook celebrates that legacy and undertakes to do what it always does - to meticulously record the season just gone and look forward to the season about to start, all within more than a thousand pages of pure footballing facts and figures.
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45,99 €

The Little Book of Man United Legends


Dive into the rich history and legendary moments of Manchester United FC, a treasure trove of quotes and facts celebrating the iconic players and managers who have graced Old Trafford. One of the oldest and most popular football clubs in the world, Manchester United has been enormously successful, with beloved figures that have contributed to the club''s success both on and off the pitch. This tiny tome is packed with the legends of Old Trafford, from Bobby Charlton to Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes to Bill Foulkes, Wayne Rooney to David De Gea and so many more unforgettable names. Packed with quotes from the men themselves and their fans, plus trivia and facts, this captivating collection is a must-have for die-hard fans and anyone who admires the passion, skill, and dedication of the Red Devils, one of the world''s greatest football clubs.
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9,99 €

Mountaineering Women


The first illustrated book to celebrate the remarkable stories and achievements of twenty of the most daring women mountaineers from around the globe. As adventure pursuits like climbing and mountaineering continue to gain popularity on the world stage, women's visibility in the sport has also grown. Mountaineering Women is the first publication of its kind, a richly illustrated collection of the awesome and oft surprising stories that celebrate the achievements of twenty women climbers from across the globe. From the Amazigh (Berbers) of the Atlas Mountains to the Inca Empire, high in the Andes, women have long traversed the world's most forbidding peaks. When, many centuries later, mountaineering took off as a sporting activity in the West, it was plucky Victorian women who defied convention to tackle the fabled summits of the European Alps. Yet despite the fact that women have a pronounced and rich history in the sport, they are conspicuously absent from mountaineering literature. Mountaineering Women seeks to redress a narrative that frequently focuses on the exploits of white, male 'explorers'. The climbers come from a wide range of nations, and each of their compelling stories is accompanied by a specially commissioned ink illustration and evocative black-and-white photographs. Three 16-page photographic sections, meanwhile, reveal the mountaineers in action and the mountainscapes in all their grandeur. Bookending the main chapters is a comprehensive introduction, written by Nandini Purandare, and a closing essay by Ashima Shiraishi, looking towards the future of the sport.
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40,95 €

States of Play


The definitive account of how capitalism and the world's elite corrupted modern football. Fully updated to cover Saudi Arabia's 2034 World Cup bid, the Manchester City charges case and PSG winning the Champions League. As the 2022 World Cup in Qatar drew to a close, there was a bitter undercurrent to Argentina's triumph. Throughout the tournament, numerous allegations of sportswashing and financial misconduct had been made against the state of Qatar, moving what had previously been a smaller conversation into the worldwide spotlight. The question had been asked, who really owns and runs football? Journeying from Abu Dhabi to Newcastle, and onto London, Paris, Moscow and New York, journalist Miguel Delaney investigates the allegations of sportswashing and misconduct in the beautiful game. The result is a gripping account of how football has been taken over by the world's wealthiest businessmen, state-backed corporations, media tycoons and oil-rich oligarchs. From Neymar's GBP 198 million transfer to Paris Saint-Germain and Abu Dhabi's construction empire in Manchester to failed Financial Fair Play constraints and the dawn of the European Super League, Miguel draws on exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to key stakeholders to produce an all-encompassing exposé of modern footballs highest echelons. Authoritative, riveting and eye-opening, States of Play reveals how football has become a tool for the world's elite.
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18,95 €

Frostgrave: Advanced Spellcraft


Expand your spellbook with Advanced Spellcraft, featuring new options for wizards and a ten-scenario competitive campaign.While today''s wizards are not as gifted as those who ruled Felstad, the recent discovery of the fabled Bibliosepulchre promises to change all that. It was in this great library-crypt that ancient librarians were interred, each clutching a rare grimoire. Who knows what strange energies have seeped from those tomes over the centuries or what shadows and ghosts stalk the dark catacombs? Only those truly obsessed with magic and the power it offers would dare to find out!Advanced Spellcraft offers numerous new rules and ideas that bring more spellcasting possibilities to games of Frostgrave. Critical successes and failures for each basic spell are introduced, as are spell-specific flourishes that can be learned to enhance your magic. Create a Furious Quill that leaps from target to target, cast a Draining Word that affects an entire school of magic, or ensnare multiple zombies with Control Undead. Such flourishes take their toll, however, and to even learn such secrets will require you to venture into the Bibliosepulchre itself in a ten-scenario competitive campaign.With hundreds of new tricks for wizards to learn, Advanced Spellcraft is the largest supplement to date, and is presented in celebration of Frostgrave''s 10th anniversary.
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33,49 €

Dreams and Songs to Sing


Dreams and Songs to Sing is a unique people''s history of the triumphs and tragedies of one of the biggest teams in sport. From Shankly to Klopp, Alan McDougall takes us on a global tour of Liverpool FC''s history, viewed through the eyes of the people who''ve been there all along: the supporters. He weaves together interviews with fans from around the world, poignant farewells to Shankly, birthday cards to Michael Owen, letters from grieving Italians after Heysel, and eyewitness accounts of Hillsborough to tell the inseparable story of the club and the city. This is a history which crosses borders of class, gender, race, and nation, ranging well beyond the pitch but never forgetting the crowds and matches at the heart of it all. Rarely does sports writing have this much intelligence and soul, powerfully combining the personal with the universal, and the everyday with the epic.
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29,49 €

The River Loire Cycle Route


A guidebook to cycling the 1061km (659 mile) River Loire cycle route from the Loire?s source in the Massif Central mountains to the Atlantic. This long-distance cycle along the course of France?s longest river is suitable for both first-time and experienced long-distance cyclists and can be cycled in 2-3 weeks. Presented as 26 stages between 24-63km (15-39 miles) in length Route passes through Le-Puy-en-Velay, Roanne, Nevers, Orléans, Tours, Saumur, Angers, Nantes and St Nazaire The route mostly follows part of the EuroVelo route 6 (EV6) and then the fully waymarked Loire a Vélo Suitable to be cycled April through October 1:150,000 maps and profiles are included for each stage GPX files available to download Detailed information about accommodation, refreshments and facilities along the route
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22,99 €

The Global Spread of Football from the 1860s to the 1880s


This book offers a study of how football became in the 1870s a global sport that was played by high school students on several continents. It provides a horizontal perspective that focusses on the spread of football in the 1870s from its English cradle to Germany, the United States, and Argentina. It will be the very first account of football that does not treat this sport in isolation but brings together the phenomenon of football with the conditions in nineteenth-century high schools and the crisis of urban living and, thereby, explains why this sport was so willingly and quickly accepted into various societies and cultures around the globe.Football was part of the social reform movement that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century in response to the social ills of urban life. Adults and children spent more and more time inside badly ventilated buildings. Beginning in the 1870s, social reformers and teachers called for the introduction into school curricula of physical exercises that could be conducted on the meadows and sport fields outside cities.
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101,99 €

Marinovich


For years, the national media has been left unchecked for its careless, incomplete, and often inaccurate portrayal of Todd Marinovich''s meteoric rise to fame, cataclysmic collapse, and unsteady path to self-realization. Now, for the first time, Todd tells his story in his own words, and nothing is off limits. Marinovich dives into the making of America''s first ''test-tube athlete,'' detailing Todd''s upbringing under his father''s unconventional care and his early entry into elite athletics along with its relentless spotlight. Readers will examine the inner workings of the mythical ''Robo Quarterback,'' but they will also meet an artist and free spirit who just happened to be one of the nation''s best football players. Todd holds nothing back as he tells of his jaw-dropping exploits both on and off the football field, sharing how the merciless grip of addiction unraveled his life even as his success in football reached dream-worthy heights. As the profit machine of youth sports reaches a crescendo and a mental health epidemic rages, Todd''s inspiring path to healing and purpose offers desperately needed hope. Marinovich is more than a soul-baring account of one man''s life: it is a call to embrace one''s truth, to defy external pressures, and to cultivate the resilience necessary to recover from inevitable setbacks. Ultimately, Todd''s shocking life experience is hard-won proof that the most powerful force within each of us is love.
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32,99 €

Anfield South


Brimming with big names, big occasions and strong storylines, Anfield South charts Liverpool''s special relationship with Wembley Stadium.By former broadcasting and sport executive Brian Barwick OBE who, as chief executive of the FA, opened the new Wembley Stadium in 2007.Since their first appearance at Wembley for the 1950 FA Cup Final, Liverpool FC have played there almost 50 times, leading fans to affectionately nickname the national stadium ''Anfield South''.This compelling book showcases various aspects of Liverpool''s special relationship with Wembley Stadium and its many matches played there, including:Fascinating stories galore – from on the pitch, in the dressing room and on the terraces, and, of course, the motorways'' and railways'' ''football specials''That landmark day in 1965 when Liverpool finally broke their FA Cup hoodoo and lifted the famous trophy, under Bill Shankly''s leadershipA journey into the 1970s when Liverpool would play in three more FA Cup finals at the national stadiumThe succession of Shankly''s Liverpool by Bob Paisley''s Liverpool – and how the quietly spoken man took the team to Wembley season after season, including retaining the European Cup thereClashes with near-neighbours Everton in the 1980s, with the Merseyside masters meeting five times at Wembley during the decadeA 1990s FA Cup Final when the Liverpool players'' Wembley white suits (cream, actually!) became a major talking point and the ''Spice Boys'' legend was bornInto the 21st century and a new stadium, with more Wembley magic courtesy of charismatic German manager Jürgen KloppAs a lifelong Liverpool fan who has attended most of the Reds'' games at Wembley, the author understands that every trip to the national stadium is a unique tale in itself. Every journey holds a story, every match a memory – every goal is treasured. Anfield South captures a unique relationship.
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26,99 €

Bring Me Sunshine


Bring Me Sunshine is the remarkable story of Luton Town''s rise from non-league to the Premier League, told through exclusive interviews with players, coaches and executives who made it happen.It''s a story made all the more remarkable by the obstacles they had to overcome along the way, not least on the two occasions when manager Nathan Jones left in search of a bigger stage. Yet Luton''s outstanding success in player recruitment, exemplified by history-making midfielder Pelly Ruddock Mpanzu, allowed the side to bounce back from the setbacks that came their way.Bring Me Sunshine goes behind the scenes to find out how the Hatters consistently triumphed in the transfer market, and unearths further secrets to their success. This is a book not only for Luton supporters, but for all football followers who love a classic rags-to-riches tale.
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26,99 €

Golf Rules TO GO


A set of practical tags for your golf bagRules knowledge always at your fingertips on your golf bag. “Golf Rules TO GO” provides answers to rules questions in the most practical way—in the form of a bag tag. All the important rules of golf are summarized on nine easy-to-understand waterproof cards. Each area of the golf course (tee, penalty area, green, etc.) is covered on one single card which systematically shows what is “allowed/not allowed”. In addition, the most common dropping procedures are explained with clear illustrations so that you can understand them at a glance, even under time pressure during the round. The cards can be easily attached to your golf bag thanks to a snap hook; the rules information is thus always to hand.The creator of this practical aid is referee and bestselling author Yves C. Ton-That. His “Golf Rules Quick Reference” pocket guide has won several awards and sold over 2.5 million copies. Now he has pulled off another coup with this innovative bag tag. “Golf Rules TO GO” ensures greater certainty and clarity on the course and belongs on every golf bag.“Golf Rules TO GO—A set of practical tags for your golf bag”, by Yves C. Ton-That
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26,99 €

Portraits of Passion


Portraits of Passion by Duncan Simpson is a bold, heartfelt salute to the supporters who are the soul of Hibs. Packed with powerful photography and moving stories, this book captures the pride, loyalty and fierce love that have fuelled the club for 150 years. From diehards who've seen it all to the next generation in their first scarves, Portraits of Passion shines a light on the faces behind the flags, the fans who make Hibernian more than a football club. A must-have for anyone with Hibs in their heart.
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29,49 €

Športová literatúra ponúka široký výber kníh, ktoré sa zameriavajú na rôzne športové disciplíny, tréning, fyzickú prípravu, psychológiu športu a iné súvisiace témy. Tieto knihy sú určené pre športovcov, trénerov, fanúšikov športu a všetkých, ktorí majú záujem o šport.

Nájdete tu knihy zamerané na šport všeobecne, ale aj publikácie, ktoré sa venujú jednotlivým športom, ako napríklad futbal a hokej, tenis a golf, beh, bicyklovanie a plávanie, lyžovanie, korčuľovanie, fitness, cvičenie a kulturistiku, bojové umenie, turistiku a horolezectvo, F1 a automobilové preteky a mnoho ďalších. Tieto knihy poskytujú informácie o technikách, taktikách, pravidlách a histórii jednotlivých športových disciplín.