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Find us on Facebook www.facebook.com/BloomsburySport Follow our blog http://bloomsburysport.com Join the Bloomsbury Stay up to date >>> sport newsletter Subscribe to the Bloomsbury sport newsletter for: • Information about new books • Special offers • Competitions to win free books www.bloomsbury.com 2 NEW FOR 2014 3 SPORTS WRITING Alone Podium NEW NEW The Triumph and Tragedy of What Shapes a Sporting John Curry Champion? Bill Jones Ben Oakley Over 20 million people in Britain watched ‘For anyone who wants to know John Curry win Olympic figure skating more about our sports stars than gold in 1976. Overnight he became an just “how do you feel?” this is international star as he singlehandedly changed ice skating from marginal sport an essential read’ to high art. And yet he was an absolute BBC World News mystery to a world that had been dazzled by his gift. An often-tortured man of labyrinthine complexity, Curry’s Podium sheds new light on the biological, environmental and is a story of childhood nightmares, furious ambition, sporting genius, psychological influences that can shape a champion’s rocky path to lifelong rivalries, homophobia, Cold War politics, financial ruin the top. By scratching under the surface of champions' life stories, and deep personal tragedy. For the first time, Alone untangles the including those of Ian Thorpe, Mo Farah and Rafa Nadal to Jessica extraordinary web of his toxic, troubled, brilliant – and short – life. Ennis, Michael Johnson and Michael Phelps, common training, mental and environmental characteristics from their formative years 9781408853429 | Hardback | 234mm x 153mm | 352pp | £18.99 and beyond are revealed. Territory: WO 9781472902160 | Trade Paperback | 234mm x 153mm | 272pp | £12.99 Territory: WO The Commonwealth Games Floodlights and Touchlines Extraordinary Stories behind the A History of Spectator Sport Medals Rob Steen Brian Oliver ‘A passionate, thought-provoking ‘As rich, varied and far reaching view of sport’s place in our lives’ as the Commonwealth itself, this Independent on Sunday book is a cracking read’ Clare Balding Focusing on spectator sports and their NEW NEW accompanying issues, tracing their Sports journalist Brian Oliver brings origins, evolution and impact, inside the these often overlooked Games to life with lines and beyond the boundary, this book fantastic stories of the athletes who have competed over the years. offers a thematic history of professional sport and the ingredients that He delves into past games for the best tales, and interviews the key magnetise millions around the globe. protagonists to unveil the highs and lows of this eccentric sporting competition. 9781408152157 | Hardback | 234mm x 156mm | 544pp | £25.00 9781472907325 | Paperback | 234mm x 153mm | 224pp | £12.99 Territory: WO Territory: WO Warriors on Horseback NEW A Captivating Insight into the History and Lives of Professional Jockeys John Carter Publishing February 2015 Ever ridden a 1,500 pound thoroughbred horse that travels at speeds of up to 45 mph? Discover what it takes to be a professional jockey, the dangers and challenges they face each day. 9781472909688 | Hardback | 234mm x 153mm | 240pp | £20.00 Territory: WO 4 SPORTS WRITING Sit Down and Cheer Foul Play A History of Sport on TV The Dark Arts of Cheating in Sport Martin Kelner Mike Rowbottom Martin Kelner traces the relationship Foul Play looks at cheating in sport in all between sport and TV – the ultimate its guises: from doping to match-fixing, marriage of convenience. From humble from tampering with equipment to mind origins at the 1960 Olympics, through the games. Where to draw the line between momentous impact of Sky, up to the high- gamesmanship and outright cheating? Foul tech gadgetry of our present-day viewing, this Play investigates the lengths some people is an insightful and very funny exploration of will go to just to win. two major national pastimes. 9781408843444 | Paperback | 198mm x 129mm | 256pp | £8.99 9781408158746 | Paperback | 198mm x 129mm | 304pp | £8.99 Territory: WO Territory: WO Foinavon The Dirtiest Race in History The Story of the Grand National’s Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the Biggest Upset 1988 Olympic 100m Final David Owen Richard Moore Foinavon’s victory has become part of British The men's 100m final at the 1988 Olympics sporting folklore. David Owen tells the real has been described as the dirtiest race ever story and shows why the Grand National – but also the greatest. Aside from Johnson's holds tens of millions of people spellbound, blistering time, the race is infamous for its year after year, for ten minutes on a Saturday athletes' positive drug tests. This is the story afternoon in early spring. of that race, the rivalry between Johnson and Lewis, and the repercussions still felt almost a quarter of a century 9781408853153 | Paperback | 198mm x 129mm | £9.99 on. Territory: WO 9781408158760 | Paperback | 198mm x 129mm | 336pp | £8.99 Territory: WO | Rights Sold: Netherlands The Secret Olympian The inside story of the Olympic experience ANON ‘Wonderful…an Olympic-standard writer’ Financial Times The Secret Olympian exposes the truth of what goes on at the Olympic Games. Shocking, funny and slightly tongue in cheek, a former Olympian reveals the world of the Olympic athlete - and, behind the scenes, what a bizarre world it is.... 9781408154922 | Paperback | 198mm x 129mm | 224pp | £8.99 Territory: WO 5 SPORTS WRITING Tutenkhamen's Tracksuit Hell-Bent The History of Sport in Obsession, Pain and the Search 100-ish Objects for Something Like Transcendence Alan Tyers & Beach in Bikram Yoga In this weird and wonderful museum Benjamin Lorr catalogue, Henry VIII’s ‘Royal Box’, Lorr walked into his first yoga studio on a worn for protection during jousting whim, overweight and curious, and quickly appears next to an eye chart given to found Bikram yoga reinventing his life. He all prospective referees and linesmen was content to slim down and tone up until prior to the 1966 World Cup, and Lance a run-in with a competitive yoga champion Armstrong’s School report is featured alongside a 1989 demo tape convinced him to take his practice to the next level. So begins a recorded by a young Gary Neville. Tutankhamen’s Tracksuit ransacks journey into the strange, amazing world of competitive yoga. the dusty lockers and forgotten corners of the world’s dressing rooms to present a unique collection of subverted reality. Satirical, surreal 9781408836415 | Paperback | 198mm x 129mm | £8.99 and completely invented, fans of every sport will enjoy this knowing Territory: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market and mischievous hijacking of the defining moments of popular sporting culture. 9781408164907 | Paperback | 246mm x 189mm | 176pp | £12.99 Territory: WO The Perfect Punter Among the Fans A Year of Losing Everything and From the Ashes to the Arrows, a Trying to Win it all Back Year of Watching the Watchers Dave Farrar Patrick Collins Dave Farrar travels through the global The relationship between athlete and fan is sporting calendar, meeting