Download or read book When I Grow Up I m Going to Play for Newcastle written by Gemma Cary and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-25 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Behind the Dragon written by Ross Harries and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2020 - RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEAR This is a complete history of the Welsh rugby union team – told by the players themselves. Based on a combination of painstaking research into the early years of the Wales team to interviews with a vast array of Test match players and coaches from the Second World War to the present day, Ross Harries delves to the very heart of what it means to play for Wales, painting a unique and utterly compelling picture of the game in the only words that can truly do so: the players' own. Behind the Dragon lifts the lid on what it is to pull on the famous red shirt – the trials and tribulations behind the scenes, the glory, the drama and the honour on the field, and the heart-warming tales of friendship and humour off it. Absorbing and illuminating, this is the ultimate history of Welsh rugby – told, definitively, by the men who have been there and done it.
Download or read book Time to Say Hello written by Katherine Jenkins and published by Orion. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UK's biggest-selling classical artist reveals how her angelic voice has shot her to superstardom... Katherine Jenkins is an international singing superstar who has redefined a music genre: she has brought classical music to the masses and inspired young and old with her incredible voice, her glamorous looks and, above all, her love for music, her country and her fans. Born in Neath, South Wales, Katherine won national acclaim as the BBC Welsh Choirgirl of the year and soon after a place at the Royal Academy of Music. Auditioning for a terrifying panel of industry experts at Universal Music she came away with the largest recording deal in classical music history. And so began Katherine's meteoric rise to stardom. TIME TO SAY HELLO is Katherine's incredible story. Packed with laughter, adventure, heartbreak and music, it is the tale of a dream coming true and one that will keep you gripped to the last note ¿
Download or read book Stephen Jones written by Simon Roberts and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since making his national debut in 1998, Stephen Jones has emerged from the shadows of the true greats of Welsh rugby, such as Barry John, Phil Bennett, Jonathan Davies and Neil Jenkins, to make the fly-half position his own. In this revealing autobiography, he provides a rare insight into the demands and pressures of wearing the almost mythical number 10 jersey that has such a pre-eminent status in the Welsh psyche. As well as playing an integral role in Wales's two Grand Slam victories, Jones has appeared in three Rugby World Cups and was part of the 2005 British and Irish Lions squad. He has witnessed at first hand how the Welsh rugby establishment has struggled with the transition to professionalism, and in this candid memoir he recounts the many highs he has experienced, as well as the challenges he has faced, throughout his career so far. Jones gives an intriguing account of how he became one of the few Welsh players to play in France, recalling the brutality of the game there and how he became a cult figure amongst fans of Clermont Auvergne, where he was twice voted fly-half of the season. In Stephen Jones - A Thinking Man's Game: My Story, the Welsh rugby star reveals how his steely resolve, utter determination and sheer passion for rugby have allowed him to bounce back from numerous setbacks to become one of the most popular and respected figures in the game today.
Download or read book Good Morning Mr Sarra written by Chris Sarra and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about one man's fight to turn the tide of low expectations. When Chris Sarra arrived as the first Aboriginal principal of Cherbourg State School in 1998, it was a time of high hopes but low expectations in Indigenous education. Over the next six years, he transformed the school into a national success story, but not without controversy along the way. From his childhood as the youngest in a large Italian-Aboriginal family, Chris was taught to be proud of who he was and where he came from. But he only began to understand that not every Aboriginal child grew up with this sense of worth when he started working as a teacher. He became determined to defy expectations of being Aboriginal and, in doing so, to change them for others. His role at Cherbourg finally gave him a chance to put his philosophy into practice. Along the way, he battled the media, the education system and a culture of complacency.
Download or read book World at Your Feet written by Tim Hartley and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The World at Your Feet: One Man's Search for the Soul of the Beautiful Game, Tim Hartley takes us on a footballing world tour. We meet fans in Hong Kong who refuse to bow to China, help clear the goats off a pitch in Africa and kick off the chanting at a bizarre game in North Korea. Back home, Hartley visits all 92 Premier and Football League grounds and watches a prisoners' team desperate to play a competitive match. Using wry observation and detailed research, The World at Your Feet unfurls the good, the bad and the ugly of football. It is brutally honest, informative and often very funny. This is a rough guide with a difference. The power of football across the world is put in the balance and measured, its successes raised up, its failings laid bare. Hartley rails against the excesses of professional football but he never loses faith and through his travels he finds the soul of the game is still alive and kicking. If you want a global health check of the game we sometimes struggle to love, then you really need The World at Your Feet.
Download or read book The Men in the Arena written by Peter Burns and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1997 to 2003 England and Australia battled for domination of the rugby world in one of the greatest rivalries the sport has ever known. In The Men in the Arena, William Hill shortlisted authors Peter Burns and Tom English explore every aspect of the teams' journey to the 2003 Rugby World Cup final, telling the story primarily in the words of the protagonists at the centre of the battle. Featuring exclusive new interviews with players and coaches from both teams plus an array of superstars who faced them from New Zealand, Ireland, France, Wales and beyond, this is the inside story like it has never been told before.
Download or read book Belonging The Autobiography written by Alun Wyn Jones and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'People think they know him but unless you read this book you will never know the REAL Alun Wyn Jones' – Warren Gatland ‘One of the greatest, and seemingly indestructible, players in history' – A Daily Mail Book of the Year Belonging is the story about how the boy from Mumbles became the most capped rugby union player of all time. It is the story of what it takes to become a man who is seen by many as one of the greatest ever Welsh players. What it takes to go from sitting cross-legged on the hall floor at school watching the 1997 Lions tour of South Africa, to being named the 2021 Lions captain. But is it also about perthyn – belonging: playing for Wales, working his way through the age grades and club rugby and his regional side. How to earn the right to be there, and what it feels like to make the sacrifices along the way. Feeling the connection to players who have come before, and feeling the ties to the millions in front rooms and pubs across the country, coast to coast. Knowing that deep down you want to belong, as everyone does. From playing on the rain-swept pitches of Swansea to making his test debut against Argentina in Patagonia in 2006; from touring with the Lions in 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2021 to dealing with loss and creating a family – Belonging is the autobiography of one of the most compelling figures in world rugby. Told with characteristic honesty, this is his unique personal story of what it takes and what it means to play for your country: what it means to belong.
Download or read book The Kid from the Future the Boy from the Past written by Georgie A. Jones and published by novum pro Verlag. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 1960s London, this tale of growing up invites readers to meet Welsh-born Georgie, a teen with special powers, and a special way with words! Georgie connects with intriguing Morgan, the Kid from the Future. This leads him and his pals – Jay, Rob, Joe, Jack, – to reveal their true selves. In a world where being gay is a crime, these lads are the vanguard of today's open society. What are the risks they take? The scrapes they get into? The violence and prejudice they encounter? A humorous coming-of-age tale. How will their parents react? What are Georgie's secret liaisons? How many insults from 'Jerry the Jackal' can they take? Is it ever right to meet violence with violence? These and many other questions are answered in this tale, as told by a very articulate, funny and brave young man.
Download or read book Lottie Biggs is Not Desperate written by Hayley Long and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lottie Biggs is recovering from her mental disorder of a reasonably significant nature with the help of her counsellor, who rather helpfully looks like Johnny Depp. Things are looking up - her hair is an excellent shade of black, she has a Saturday job in a hairdresser and Gareth Stingecombe and his manly thighs are still the love of her life. When Gareth undoes his trousers to show Lottie a fetching bruise on one of the aforementioned thighs, she comes to the realisation that, unlike everyone else she knows, she is A TOTAL UTTER VIRGIN. But how can she get any sort of experience when her boyfriend is doggedly, stubbornly and infuriatingly determined to preserve his energies for the rugby field? The wit of Louise Rennison with the depth of Jacqueline Wilson.
Download or read book Sport and National Identity in the Post War World written by Dilwyn Porter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a broad range of international case studies to examine how sport has helped to shape national identities, and how national cultures have shaped sport.
Download or read book Heartland written by Joe Gorman and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 40 years, rugby league has embodied all the hopes and dreams, contradictions and tensions of life in the Sunshine State. The game speaks to Queenslanders' sense of being the underdog and the outsider &– a powerful undercurrent that sweeps through politics, business, the arts, and sport. The enduring appeal of State of Origin is that it allows Queensland to balance the scales, at least for 80 minutes.In Heartland, journalist Joe Gorman chronicles a tale of loss and rebirth &– from the decline of the Brisbane Rugby League competition and North Queensland's Foley Shield to the extraordinary rise of the Broncos and the Cowboys in the NRL. Weaving together stories of diehard supporters and game-changing players, from Arthur Beetson to Johnathan Thurston, this is a revealing account of Queensland's coming of age, both on and off the field.
Download or read book Catherine the Princess of Wales written by Robert Jobson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the author’s extensive connections within the royal household, this dynamic new biography tells the full story of how Catherine, the Princess of Wales, became the woman she is today. Kate Middleton's life's story seems like a modern-day fairy-tale. An attractive, clever, and ambitious girl from unexceptional beginnings meets and falls in love with a wealthy prince when they are both college undergraduates. Now, with the British monarchy in transition, Catherine is destined to become the first "commoner Queen” in British history since Anne Hyde, wife of James II. Since her wedding on April 29th, 2011—and since becoming the Duchess of Cambridge—Catherine has endeared herself to the people of the Britain and America with her extensive travels, with her infectious smile, sense of style, and down-to-earth nature. With her self-deprecation, willingness to laugh at herself, solid work-ethic—along with William’s warmth, and accessibility—this dynamic duo has become the most popular members of the royal family. As interest in the royals continues to gain legions of new, younger fans, there is increasing interest in the histories and back stories of the principal players in this story. Through the author’s connection with sources both on and off the record within the royal household, this dynamic new biography tells the full story of how Catherine became the woman she is today.
Download or read book Wrecking Ball A Big Lad From a Small Island My Story So Far written by Billy Vunipola and published by Headline. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voted Rugby Book of the Year at the 2018 Sports Book Awards. Wrecking Ball is a captivating and humorous memoir by Billy Vunipola, one of the stars of England's recent rugby renaissance, and will be enjoyed by those who have read the recent autobiographies by Jonny Wilkinson, Brian O'Driscoll, Dan Carter and Paul O'Connell. Standing at 6 feet 2 inches and weighing almost 20 stone, Billy is a rampaging and unmissable presence on the rugby pitch, for both club and country. Wrecking Ball is his captivating story so far, chronicling his remarkable personal odyssey of 10,000 miles, from the tiny Tongan village of Longo Longo to the imposing vastness of Twickenham. Join Billy on his journey from the year-round sunshine of Tonga to the bitter cold of a British winter, from his favourite Pontypool kebab shop to finding himself eating broccoli for breakfast, and from carefree childhood games in the middle of the Pacific to the serious business of playing professional rugby in Europe. Wrecking Ball is a wonderfully eccentric and witty book, written with bags of charm. It captures Billy's colourful family and upbringing, and creates a rounded and fascinating portrait of a young man finding his feet as a modern English rugby player.
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations written by Elizabeth M. Knowles and published by Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations offers the broadest and most up-to-date coverage of quotations available today. Now with 20,000 quotations arranged by author, this is Oxford's largest quotations dictionary ever. As well as quotations from traditional sources,and with improved coverage of world religions and classical Greek and Latin literature, this foremost dictionary of quotations now covers areas such as proverbs and nursery rhymes. For the first time there are special sections for Advertising Slogans, Epitaphs, Film Lines, and Misquotations, whichbring together topical and related quotes, and allow you to browse through the best quotations on a given subject. In this new fifth edition there is enhanced accessibility with a new thematic index to help you find the best quotes on a chosen subject, more in-depth details of the earliest traceable source, an extensive keyword index, and biographical cross-references, so you will easily be able to findquotations for all occasions, and identify who said what, where, and when.
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Download or read book Harlequin Romance May 2020 Box Set written by Rebecca Winters and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin® Romance brings you a collection of four new titles, available now! Experience the rush of falling in love! This Harlequin® Romance box set includes: #4711 FALLING FOR HIS UNLIKELY CINDERELLA Escape to Provence by Rebecca Winters Exquisitely beautiful both inside and out, temporary housekeeper Cami Delon enchants single dad billionaire Raoul Fontesquieu with her kind yet cautious nature. But can he convince her that she fits perfectly into his privileged world…because she already has his heart? #4712 REDEMPTION OF THE MAVERICK MILLIONAIRE by Michelle Douglas When his “knight in shining armor” strategy to make amends for betraying his ex Eve Clark backfires spectacularly, millionaire entrepreneur Damon Macy must work closely with the still devastatingly stunning but now wary Eve to redeem the situation. And hopefully himself, too! #4713 SECOND CHANCE FOR THE SINGLE MOM by Sophie Pembroke Focusing on her daughter and late husband’s foundation, Gwen Phillips buries her pain deep. The one man who could bring back the joy Gwen’s been hiding from is maverick rugby legend Ryan. But now that he’s back, will she give him that chance? #4714 BABY ON THE TYCOON’S DOORSTEP by Nina Milne Billionaire Jake Cartwright’s Mayfair hotel has an adorable if unexpected new guest. And according to the note, abandoned baby Emily isn’t just his temporary responsibility—she’s his fiercely independent ex Isobel Brennan’s, too…
