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A 'must-buy' for all Bluebird fans, this informative and entertaining illustrated history tells the amazing story of despair and triumph that was the 'roller-coaster' 16-year period from 1993 to 2009.

The only guide to its full 896 mile route, The Wales Coast Path - A Practical Guide for Walkers is an essential companion for both the serious long-distance walker and for day-trippers who wish to tackle the Path one stage at a time.

Now in it's third edition, The Birth of Rugby in Cardiff and Wales is the essential guide to the importance and significance of rugby in Cardiff to the development of Welsh rugby in the nineteenth century.

Arthur Gould by Gwyn Prescott is the definitive biography of the record-breaking Welsh international player who is widely acknowledged as the first superstar of rugby.

A League of Our Own is the first book to tell the remarkable story of the establishment and 30-year history of the Welsh national league, now called The Cymru Premier, and is a major contribution to the football history of Wales.

A double dual-code international and held in the highest regard by former teammates and opponents alike, John Devereux is revered by followers of rugby league and rugby union and, in his official biography, Devs, reveals the fascinating story of his life in rugby.

Fighting to Speak reveals the journey of a miner's son with a stutter who succeeded to play rugby at the highest level and defeat his demons.

Sons of Cambria is the first volume of a landmark three-part collection that will feature every footballer capped for Wales' senior men's team since 1876 and is the essential reference guide for all followers of Welsh international football.

Featuring over 50 boxers from North, Mid and West Wales, including first British boxer medal winner at the world amateur championships and the incredible youngster who was ranked in the world's top 10 by the American Ring magazine when he was just 16 years old, this is the seventh and final volume in Gareth Jones' acclaimed Boxers of Wales series.

Lavishly illustrated with over 300 photographs, The Indomitables is the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the 1946 tour that made sporting legends of the 15 Englishmen and 11 Welshmen (including the captain, Gus Risman) who created sporting history and won the respect of the Australian nation.

Messi: The King of Camp Nou is the definitive story of Lionel Messi's entire Barca career, written by Jason Pettigrove, a football journalist who worked for FC Barcelona during Messi's final years in Catalonia.

Witty and engaging with a very dry sense of humour, Steve Fenwick's memoirs tell the story of the schoolboy from Nantgarw who became one of the most celebrated players in the rugby world, and his hilarious anecdotes and recollections of a glittering career during a golden age of Welsh rugby will delight and enthral readers in Wales and beyond.

Olympic gold medallist Darren Campbell is one of Britain's most successful and popular athletes, yet the real story behind his success has not been made public, until now.

This is the remarkable story of The Maindy Flyers, a cycling club in Cardiff which has nurtured a string of elite riders such as Elinor Barker, Luke Rowe, Owain Doull, and 2018 Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas, and has produced more Olympic gold medallists since 2008 than France.

'Call them to remembrance' - now published in an ehanced second edition including 120 illustrations and maps - tells the stories of the 13 Welsh rugby internationals who were killed during the First World War.

Essential reading for all Welsh rugby supporters, No Regrets - The Story of Wales' Plan For Rugby World Cup Glory, reveals Welsh rugby's three-year 'No Regrets' masterplan to give the national team the best possible chance of success at the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan.

Unbelievable Barry Town covers the club's golden decade where they won the Welsh Premier seven times, through the years of playing as an amateur team under controversial owner Stuart Lovering, until the fans were able to take over and turn the club around to once again play in Europe in 2019.

The Player From 'Ponty' is the biography of Glamorgan cricketer Bernard Hedges, the talented sportsman from the valleys of south Wales who played rugby for Pontypridd and Swansea, represented a Great Britain side at football and became a widely respected cricketer with Glamorgan between 1950 and 1967.

Highlights the importance of the Bay Ports of both Cardiff and Penarth docks during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This volume provides details of vessels and voyages of mixed fortunes, and lists further Bay Maidens, including many built in the Bay Ports.

Evokes the experience of supporting the Swans, the highs and the lows, the good times and the bad. This book contains information and anecdotes including the High Court Judge who had something in common with the North Bank urinals and the Swans great who was born in gaol (and others not so great who might have gone there).

In this brutally frank and hard-hitting autobiography, Mike 'Spikey' Watkins, the loveable rogue of Welsh rugby, lifts the lid on his roller-coaster playing career.

'Lucky' Jim Pleass is the last surviving member of Glamorgan's County Championship winning team of 1948, the first time the Welsh team won the highest honour in county cricket.

Written by Andrew Hignell, the Archivist of Glamorgan County Cricket Club and the leading authority on the history of cricket in Wales, this book recalls these Golden Years in the history of Blaina Cricket Club as well as tracing the fascinating history of cricket in this Monmouthshire valley.

Glamorgan has a proud and successful boxing heritage, as can be seen by the 50-plus boxers featured in this, the 6th volume of Gareth Jones' renowned Boxers of Wales series. Packed with more than 100 images, as well as decades of unrivalled boxing knowledge, The Boxers of Glamorgan is essential reading for all followers of the noble art.

Dedicated to 'all those in rugby who did - and who didn't - make it through those troubled times', War Games is a comprehensive and highly illustrated commemoration, packed with stories and statistics that for the first time chronicles the history of rugby - the men and the matches, from `scratch' to international - during the Second World War.

Bluebirds Reunited is the incredible story of the renaissance of Cardiff City: how a club in turmoil transformed its fortunes to win the unlikeliest of promotions, and how its loyal fans fell back in love with their beloved Bluebirds.

With four world champions including Joe Calzaghe, arguably the greatest Welsh boxer of all time, and a host of Welsh, British and European champions, Gareth Jones celebrates the great boxing tradition of Newport the Gwent Valleys and Monmouthshire by highlighting the exploits of 70 boxers who hail from the south east corner of Wales.

Profiles 50 Cardiff boxers, from the days of the prize ring. This book includes stars of both professional and amateur codes, world champions and Commonwealth Games medal winners.

Growing up as a talented young cricketer in 1970s Cardiff, Alan dreamt of a life in sport and yearned to travel the world but, as he reveals in Easier Said Than Done, he could never have imagined he would realise his dream via a microphone and camera rather than with a bat and a ball.