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Get ready for super sporting summer
The domestic football season may be over, but sports fans have a fantastic summer to look forward to.
So why not indulge in a little background reading ahead of the big events – and for free?
The Yorkshire Post have teamed up with Waterstone's to offer a fabulous competition in which one of our lucky readers will win a 100 Waterstone's Gift Card which can be spent at any branch of Waterstone's or online at www.waterstones.com
Here are a selection of new books which will be available on Waterstone's shelves and which have been inspired by this summer's sporting fixtures.
Twenty20 Cricket Guide 2009 by Chris Hawkes (12.99 Carlton Books) – The perfect guide to the brand-new world that is 20-overs-a-side cricket. It contains a review of the 2007 Twenty20 World Cup and tells the story of how India's success in that competition inspired dramatic changes in world cricket.
Once Were Lions by Jeff Connor (HarperSport 18.99) – Drawing on first-hand interviews from more than 75 British Lions tourists since the golden age of the 50s, this book captures what it means to be a British Lions rugby player as the tourists take on South Africa in the three-Test series.
Senna Versus Prost by Malcolm Folley (Century 18.99) – In the late 80s and early 90s, two of Formula 1's most honoured champions and iconic figures drove together for McLaren for two seasons, and their acrimonious and hostile relationship extended even after one of them had left the team. Here is the story of one of the all-time classic sporting rivalries between the Frenchman Alain Prost and the Brazilian Ayrton Senna.
Centre Court: The Jewel In Wimbledon's Crown (25 Vision Sports Publishing) – A celebration of one of sport's most historic and iconic venues – from the epic matches played on Centre Court and the legends who have graced its hallowed grass to the uniquely English atmosphere of ball boys and ball girls, blazers and Robinson's Barley Water.
Pete Sampras: A Champion's Mind by Peter Bodo (16.99 Aurum Press) – Sampras is arguably the greatest player tennis has ever seen. Yet while Sampras gave everything on the court, he revealed little outside it. Now, in A Champion's Mind, this very private man finally opens up.
Sex Lies and Handlebar Tape by Paul Howard (7.99 Mainstream) – This is the astonishing biography of French cycling star Jacques Anquetil. For the first time since his death in 1987, it reveals the extraordinary truth behind the first man to win the Tour de France five times; a man who candidly admitted to using drugs, offended legions of fans by confessing that his only motivation for riding was financial and who infamously seduced his doctor's wife, had a child with her daughter and then sustained a menage a trois with his wife and stepdaughter under the same roof for 12 years.
Tour Climbs by Chris Sidwells (Collins 18.99) – Every year the Tour de France is said to only really start when it reaches the first mountain stages: the drama of the race only really begins as the climbers take over in the Pyrenees, Vosges or Alps. This is the first book to cover in detail every major climb ever used in the Tour.
Ashes to Ashes by Marcus Berkmann (16.99 Little Brown) – Examining the hype, anticipation and, generally, the ultimate sense of despair which befalls the England cricket fan as most popular biennial event in the cricketing calendar comes round again. England won by a whisker on home soil in 2005 – they can't possibly do it again, can they?
Jelleyman's Thrown A Wobbly by Jeff Stelling (HarperSport 15.99) – This is the Sky Sports anchor man's deliciously chaotic, hugely entertaining, anecdote-ridden, humorous taste of life in the Soccer Saturday studio and goes a long way to demonstrate how a six-hour long, studio-based show with no live action pictures can hold a huge audience enthralled every Saturday afternoon between August and May.
All books available from branches of Waterstone's and www.waterstones.com
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