Library

The home library includes a wealth of sports related books, accumulated over time.

Basketball

My Life, My Fight 

Steven Adams

The self-told story of Steven Adams' rise through the NBA  

Cricket

After Stumps Were Drawn

Jack Pollard

An anthology of the writings of Ray Robinson (1905 - 1982), Australian cricket reporter and writer

John Nyren's The Cricketers of my Time

Ashley Mote

The original 1832 text of the rules of cricket as written by John Nyren

Keith Miller | The Life of a Great All-Rounder

Roland Perry

Steve Smith's Men

Geoff Lemon

Australian cricket captain Steve Smith's fall from grace following the 2018 Cape Town test vs. South Africa

Cycling

The Tour | Behind the scenes of Cadel Evans 2011 Tour de France victory

Rupert Guinness

Football

New Zealand's World Cup |The Inside Story

John Adshead, Kevin Fallon & Armin Lindenberg

The story of NZ's 1982 Football World Cup campaign

Golf

Golf - A Course in Life

John Hanlon

A few things golf can teach us about life and business

Out of the Rough

Steve Williams & Michael Donaldson

Steve William's 2015 account of his years as caddy for Tiger Woods, Adam Scott, Greg Norman and Raymond Floyd

The Greatest Game Ever Played | Vardon, Ouimet and the birth of modern golf

Mark Frost

The story of the 1913 US Open played at Brookline, Massachusetts

Horse Racing

42 Days at the Races | A Punting Adventure

Helen Thomas

A Horse Called Mighty | The Might and Power Story

Helen Thomas

Another Great Decade of New Zealand Racing - 1980s

Jack Glengarry

At the Track | Brilliant images capturing 50 memorable years of racing

Bruce Postle

A Racegoers Handbook

Tony Arrold

Bart - My Life

J B Cummings

Black Caviar | The horse of a lifetime

Gerard Whateley

Blood Horses | Notes of a sportswriter's son

John Jeremiah Sullivan

All about the American "Triple Crown" with a focus on the 1973 Kentucky Derby won by Secretariat on his way to winning the Triple Crown

Bill Skelton Story (The)

Bill Skelton & Tony Hilton

Bob Skelton Story (The) 

Dennis Ryan

Daylight Second | Phar Lap and Tommy Woodcock

Kelly Ana Morey

Dr Turf's Guide to Better Punting

John Rothfield

1987 textbook on racehorse betting strategies

Elements of Thoroughbred Racing | The mind and methods of the racing world

Joseph Keating

First Past the Post

Brian Phillips

Anthology of NZ racing stories

Fixed | Cheating, doping, rape and murder - the inside track on Australia's racing industry

Matthew Benns

From the Horse's Mouth - The Keith Haub Story

Mike Dillon

Give a Man a Horse | The remarkable story of Sir Patrick Hogan

Dianne Haworth

Grenville | The story of a great NZ jockey; Grenville Hughes

Jim Knight

Harry - the ride of my life | The Noel Harris Story

Wally O'Hearn

Life on the Racing Roller Coaster | The memoirs of an owner of (mostly) average racehorses

Antony Surace

Master (The) - A personal portrait of Bart Cummings

Les Carlyon

Melbourne Cup (The)

Maurice Cavanough & Meurig Davies

History of the Melbourne Cup up to 1971

Michelle Payne | Life as I Know It

Michelle Payne & John Harris

More Dark Secrets of the Turf

John White

1998 UK textbook on racehorse betting strategies

NZ Thoroughbred Racing Annual - 2024

Aidan Rodley

A recap of the 2024 racing season in NZ

NZ Thoroughbred Racing Annual - 2025

Aidan Rodley

A recap of the 2025 racing season in NZ

Phar Lap - The Untold Story

Graeme Putt & Pat McCord

Phar Lap Story (The)

Michael Wilkinson

Phar Lap (The Diary of)

Robert Baker

Pumper

Jim Cassidy & Andrew Webster

Top jockey, Jim Cassidy's recount of his career

Racing with Rising Fast

Leicester R Spring

Scientific Racegoing | Tested ways to win at the racetrack

Ira S Cohen Ph.D & George D Stephens Ph.D

1963 Australian edition of a USA book about different approaches to betting on racehorses

Secretariat

William Nack

Tapestry of the Turf | The History of New Zealand Racing (to 1987)

John Costello & Pat Finnegan

Tears in the Wind |The Lance O'Sullivan Story

Dianne Haworth

The Australian & New Zealand Thoroughbred

Ross du Bourg

The Linda Jones Story

John Costello

The Midas Man - TJ | T (Tommy) J Smith biography

Kevin Perkins

Thoroughbreds are My Life

Glyn Tucker

Tulloch | The extraordinary life and times off a true champion

Ken Linnett

Two Over Three on Goodtime Sugar | The New Zealand TAB turns 50

David Grant

Wellington Racing Club | a Centennial History

Tony Hilton

Winning Horse Racing Formulae

David Duncan

Winning More

Don Scott

1988 textbook on betting strategies

Winning Spirit

Sheila Laxon - Autobiography

General

A Load of Old Balls | The QI History of Sport

James Harkin & Anna Ptaszynski

Origins of sports and sporting related matters

Rugby

Beaver

Stephen Donald & Scotty Stevenson

The biography of Stephen Donald, All Black

Straight Up - Ruby Tui

Ruby Tui

Who Beat the All Blacks

Alun Gibbard

Llanelli's victory over the 1972 All Blacks

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