Rugby Folklore by Matt Elliott
39.99 NZD
Category: Rugby/Rugby League
From superstitions to send-offs, All Black nick-names to on-field battles: Rugby Folklore is a miscellany of stories, quotes, and facts that are part of the fabric of New Zealand rugby. New Zealand has played, celebrated and commemorated rugby like no other country. We took to the game in extraordinary ...Show more
Brothers in Black: The Long History of Brotherhood in New Zealand Rugby by Jamie Wall
36.99 NZD
Category: Rugby/Rugby League | Reading Level: near fine
There's an astounding number of brothers playing in top level rugby in New Zealand. How is this so? What's it like for the siblings: do they compete with each other or do they support each other? Is there a particular climate in some families that encourages this success? The All Blacks have had a brill ...Show more
Rugby: an Anthology - The Brave, the Bruised and the Brilliant by Brian Levison
34.99 NZD
Category: Rugby/Rugby League
Inspiring and irreverent by turns, Brian Levison's new anthology has drawn on rugby's wealth of excellent writing. Frank Keating, P. G. Wodehouse, Alec Waugh, A. A. Thomson, John Reason and Mick Imlah are among the distinguished names who have written movingly, amusingly and entertainingly about the gam ...Show more
The Jersey: The All Blacks: The Secrets Behind the World's Most Successful Team by Peter Bills
44.99 NZD
Category: Rugby/Rugby League
The All Blacks are the greatest sports team on the planet. With a better winning record than any other sports team in history, they stand head and shoulders above their nearest rugby rivals, and go to the 2019 World Cup as back-to-back World Champions. How did a country of just 4.8 million people conque ...Show more
Rugby - the Afterlife by Gray Wynne
39.99 NZD
Category: Rugby/Rugby League | Reading Level: near fine
Way back when there was a clear distinction between work and rugby, great names of the game spent their time working in an office or at a trade or out on the farm, all the while fitting in training and then playing at the weekends. That job/play distinction became hazier through the 80s and 90s until, i ...Show more
The Mammoth Book of the World Cup by Nick Holt
37.99 NZD
Category: Rugby/Rugby League
An all-encompassing, chronological guide to football's World Cup, one of the world's few truly international events, in good time for the June 2018 kick-off in Russia. From its beginnings in 1930 to the modern all-singing, all-dancing self-styled 'greatest show on Earth', every tournament is covered wit ...Show more
The Lions: When the Going Gets Tough: Behind the scenes by Ian McGeechan
27.99 NZD
Category: Rugby/Rugby League
Fully updated to contain Sir Ian McGeechan's reflections on the 2017 Lions tour to New Zealand. 2017 saw the latest contest between the British Lions and New Zealand - the ultimate rugby clash between the northern and southern hemisphere. Ian McGeechan is the 'Ultimate Lion', and no one could have done ...Show more
In the Line of Fire: The Inside Story from the Lions Head Coach by Warren Gatland
37.99 NZD
Category: Rugby/Rugby League
Warren Gatland's In the Line of Fire is the ultimate chronicle of this summer's remarkable Lions tour to New Zealand - home of the fearsome All Blacks, the double world champions - which culminated in an historic and nerve-shredding series draw.The book is the Head Coach's wonderfully candid and vibrant ...Show more
New Zealand Rugby Country - How the game shaped our nation by Desmond Wood
39.99 NZD
Category: Rugby/Rugby League | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand is arguably the greatest rugby-playing country on the planet. From the beginning, this classless society captured the game founded in the English class system and made it its own. New Zealanders not only adopted the game but also introduced many innovations, along with adding to an unmatched ...Show more
Beaver by Stevenson Scotty
39.99 NZD
Category: Rugby/Rugby League
Stephen Donald etched himself into All Blacks folklore with that 'kick' in the 2011 Rugby World Cup final at Eden Park. Donald, one of the country's most popular All Blacks, had not originally been wanted for the World Cup squad. He was whitebaiting in the Waikato and effectively off the rugby grid when ...Show more
Stuff You May Have Missed by Andrew Voss
29.99 NZD
Category: Rugby/Rugby League
Andrew Voss only ever wanted to be one thing, a football commentator, and Stuff You May Have Missed reflects his lifelong passion for rugby league. It is a collection of thoughts, recollections, personal experiences and stories from the many great people whose paths he has crossed, and the many facts an ...Show more
Having A Ball: A Cartoon History of New Zealand Rugby by Ian F. Grant
9.99 NZD
Category: Rugby/Rugby League
For over a century rugby has been New ZealandÂs national game, an obsession that has helped define a small country and mould its people  Maori and Pakeha Having a Ball looks at the triumphs and disasters, the amateur code that morphed into the professional era, the game at the local park and internat ...Show more