"The charismatic Glasgow-born winger and indie music obsessive recalls his passions, and life in football before the riches arrived..."

"The Secret World of Weather will help you decode the clouds..."

"Like the racing driver himself, this life moves at breakneck speed and is never dull..."

"an engaging history, full of colourful characters, of women and cycling..."

"a delightful sporting memoir..."

"offers up some memorable insights but it is mostly a reliable and business-like account of a life in sport..."

"Herbie Sykes’ history of Italy’s dominant team is a study in how power works in the country..."

"Beaumont takes the reader on a labyrinthine journey into the literature of walking and thinking that thankfully strays far from the now well-trodden terrain of psychogeography..."

"His writing is evocative and easily paced, and, like the athletes, flits between seriousness and humour. ..."

" an urgent and humane story that invites not mockery of a madman, but pity and admiration..."

"(a) short but captivating travelogue ..."

"Crackling on the page, Colls’s prose elucidates and amuses in equal measure and with equal sharpness..."

"a love letter to an era of gears and gasoline now accelerating towards its twilight..."

"a grounded writer on the right track..."

"Greenslade tells this complex story in gripping fashion and with exemplary clarity..."

"her prose is extraordinary: wise, unflinching, exquisite..."

"This is probably a book for people who are as ceaselessly competitive as Vernon herself..."

"Henderson is a superior wallower in recollections of innings past..."

"a love letter to the healing qualities and timeless joy of slipping into the water..."

"At its heart, Breath is about enhancement rather than sickness..."

"this book will test your faith in clean sport..."

"If you like cricketing nostalgia, you’ll enjoy the book..."

"As well as explaining tennis’s hidden communal history it exposes issues of sporting diversity and public space..."

"an impressive feat of book-length reportage..."

"... (a) fascinating history of how, where and why humans swim...."

"Ross Edgley ... is much more than another of those steely-eyed men with beards glowering at you from book covers...."