Category: General | Reading Level: 6 Sport
Brisbane, 1984. It all started with a simple plan to secretly swap a mediocre horse with a faster one, and rake in the cash with a few well-placed bets. What could possibly go wrong? In The Fine Cotton Fiasco, Peter Hoysted and Pat Sheil brilliantly tell the scarcely believable tale of how - through a ...Show more
Category: Biography
The story of a once-in-a-lifetime horse who would surpass all the rest.
Category: Sport/Games
Whether you are an elite athlete, ambitious professional, dedicated parent or hard-working student, all of us are at times challenged by doubts and setbacks. This collection of inspiring and oft times hilarious quotes and quips from some of Australia's leading AFL players will lighten your mood and give ...Show more
Category: Sport/Games
Although there’s plenty of practical advice here, this book is more about why we fish, what makes it special and how it makes us feel.’ – Mark Cloutier Every fisherman has a special stretch of water, where the fish are always plentiful and the memories flow. River Song revel ...Show more
Category: Sport/Games
The Standard Bearers collects some of Gideon Haigh's previously published writings over the course of 2018-19, mainly for The Australian, as well as for The Times, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack and Wisden India. It's a real-time record where you'll read how Gideon narrowly favoure ...Show more
Category: Sport/Games
On October 31, 1907, the Richmond Football Club committee accepted an invitation to become a member of the then fledgling Victorian Football League. The Tigers now represent one of the game's great and enduring cultures, a tradition built on inner-city tribal football, but which today thrives on a natio ...Show more
Category: General
Grand Finals Volume III is a comprehensive account of Premiership deciders spanning the last five decades-a time of momentous changes in the the game, its administration and its reach. Within ten years of Carlton's stirring 1979 triumph over Collingwood,a struggling 12-team League representing Melb ...Show more
Category: Sport/Games
There is no greater prize in Australian team sport than the VFL/AFL premiership flag. Premiership players are forever recognised and their deeds of their teams long celebrated. This book, the first in a three-volume series, recounts in details the players, the officials, the matches and the other key ev ...Show more
Category: Biography | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
A champion racehorse, Manikato won races at the elite level over six seasons through the late 1970s and early 1980s and became the first Australian sprinter to earn $1 million in prize money. But once getting to the top echelon of racing as a two-year-old, his life endured twists and turns that continua ...Show more
Category: Biography
JT. One of the greats, simply the best. He is Johnathan Thurston. As a young Brisbane kid, Johnathan Thurston was written off as too skinny, too slow and too wild to play rugby league professionally. But he defied the odds to become one of the game's greatest players.In this young readers' edition ...Show more
Category: Sport/Games | Reading Level: 6 Sport
It's the 1986 tour of India, and Australian cricket is reeling from the loss of key players to retirement and rebel tours. Few give Australia a chance against a surging India, and even Allan Border doubts his ability to lead this team. What follows is one of the most titanic struggles in cricket history ...Show more
Category: Biography | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The story of Australia's greatest motoring hero, and the dynasty he founded. Sir Jack Brabham was unique in the world of motor racing. He was the boy from Sydney who took on the elite of motor racing and won three F1 world championships, the last one in a car not only built by his own Brabham company, ...Show more
