Amazon Kindle – Now Available In Australia – BookOffers Buyers Guide
Amazon.com today announced that the Kindle will become available in Australia from October 19 2009. Australian book lovers will no doubt have the new international Kindle on the top of their Christmas lists this year. BookOffers.com.au predicts that the arrival of the Kindle in Australia will be a game changer for the Australian book industry. [...]
Learn MoreLiving Sport Legend Lance Armstrong weaves a warts and all story providing an insight into his professional and private life in Comeback 2.0: Up Close and Personal
After three years in retirement following his record-setting 7th Tour de France win — which he accomplished after successfully battling the testicular cancer that almost killed [...]
Beautifully illustrated Formula 1: The Definitive Visual Guide takes you inside the world of motor racing to tell the story of its amateur roots and how it evolved to become the billion dollar industry it is today. A must for Formula 1 fans fascinated by the complexities, and exasperated by the idiosyncrasies of motor racing’s [...]
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- Tags: 9781405346825, Championship, Formula 1, Motor Racing, Sport, Various
For all those cricket fans out there the award-winning story of the controversy surrounding legendary bowler Harold Larwood and the technique that literally bowled everyone over and out.
Fast bowler Harold Larwood is a cricketing legend. During the MCC’s notorious 1932-3 Ashes tour of Australia, his ‘Bodyline’ bowling left Australia’s batsmen battered, reduced Bradman to the [...]
The Greatest: The Players, The Moments, The Matches 1993-2008 is a brillaint new cricket book by Fairfax journalist Malcolm Knox.
From 1993 to 2008 the Australian cricket team reached the highest of heights. They won three world cups in a row and sixteen consecutive test matches. They continually dominated England in the Ashes, destroyed the once [...]
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- Tags: 9781740668255, Cricket, Malcolm Knox, Sport
My Life Outside the Ring is the new autobiography from one time WWF champion Hulk Hoganhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/books/review/Itzkoff-t.html
Hulk Hogan, born Terry Bollea, burst onto the professional wrestling scene in the late seventies and went on to become a world wrestling champion many times over. From humble beginnings, this giant of a man escaped a pre-ordained life of [...]
Being single and up front, the disgraced AFL footy player Wayne Carey comes clean about the demons in his life in The Truth Hurts.
In the world of Australian football, no-one has been more notorious than Wayne Carey. Once hailed as The King, and widely acclaimed as one of the greatest footballers of his generation, Carey [...]
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- Tags: 9781405039666, AFL, Biography, Charles Happell, Sport, Wayne Carey
Surf For Your Life: Mick Fanning is an inspirational tale of overcoming the odds to become world champ.
Mick Fanning might only be 27 but he already knows how a lot of things feel that most of us never will. How does it feel to lose a brother? Win a world title? Rip your hamstring muscle [...]
Wally Lewis, simply one of the greatest Australian sportsmen. In Out of the Shadows: A Champion’s Return to the Spotlight he discusses his epilepsy, his descent into depression, and shares a laugh or two
Wally Lewis will forever be known to rugby league fans as ‘The King’. He could do what appeared to be impossible on [...]
In The Captains Diary 2009 Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting gives you the inside story of the Australian Cricket Teams 2009 Ashes campaign.
No matter how packed the Australian cricket team’s schedule — in 2008-09 it featured tours to India and South Africa as part of an almost constant stream of Tests, Twenty20 and one-day internationals [...]
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Cadel: Close to Flying is the new biography of Australian World Champion cyclist Cadel Evans.
This is the personal story of a champion in the making. Physiologically Cadel Evans has the best numbers of any cyclist tested at the Australian Institute of Sport, the organisation that is behind Australia’s super stars in international sport. He was [...]
