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 Adam's 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

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

Cycling

  • The Tour | Behind the scenes of Cadel Evan's 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

A Horse Called Mighty | The Might and Power Story

Helen Thomas

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

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

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 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

Secretariat

William Nack

Tears in the Wind |The Lance O'Sullivan Story

Dianne Haworth

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

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

  • Who Beat the All Blacks
    • Alun Gibbard

      • The story of Llanelli's victory over the 1972 All Blacks

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