FEATURE: Five Warrington rugby league books
Over the coming weeks and months, we’ll be working our way through rugby league’s major clubs to produce lists of books that might interest the club’s fans.
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Keith Senior autobiography set for release in 2011
News reaches Rugby League Books that former Great Britain centre Keith Senior is writing an autobiography due for publication in September 2011.
FEATURE: Five Wigan rugby league books
Often described as the world’s most famous rugby league club, tales of glory litter Wigan’s past.
REVIEW: Reluctant Hero: The John Holmes Story, by Phil Holmes Jr and Phil Holmes Snr
Anybody searching for a rugby league book that combines emotion, nostalgia and dignity can stop looking now.
FEATURE: Five Bradford rugby league books
Bradford Bulls – or Bradford Northern, for readers of a certain age – is one of the most famous clubs in British rugby league.
Welsh rugby league author Ian Golden predicts bright future
Welsh rugby league author Ian Golden has predicted a bright future for the sport as all 14 Engage Super League teams head to Cardiff for Millennium Magic.
INTERVIEW: John Holmes’ nephew, Phil Jr, remembers a rugby league great
This is the second installment of a two-part interview with Phil Holmes Jr, co-author of Reluctant Hero: The John Holmes Story. Here he talks about John’s remarkable talents.
Jeff Grayshon biography set for release
Publishers Vertical Editions have confirmed plans to release The Warrior: Jeff Grayshon MBE in March 2011.
REVIEW: The Rugby League Miscellany, by David Lawrenson
Bored of reading the same old books? The Rugby League Miscellany sees author David Lawrenson highlight some of rugby league’s finest moments in entertaining style.
INTERVIEW: Phil Holmes Jr, co-author of ‘Reluctant Hero: The John Holmes Story’, on writing a tribute a Leeds hero
This is the first of a two-part interview with Phil Holmes Jr, co-author of Reluctant Hero: The John Holmes Story. Here he talks about gathering material for a book about ...
REVIEW: Border City Blues, by Alan Tucker
Alan Tucker’s book Border City Blues will go down as the definitive history of Carlisle rugby league.
Scratching Shed confirms plans for four new rugby league books
Lee Crooks’ autobiography is one of four new rugby league books Scratching Shed Publishing is planning for 2011, the company has revealed.
REVIEW: Longy: Booze, Brawls, Sex and Scandal, by Sean Long and Nick Appleyard
Sean Long has done it all.
“Talking points” promised in new Castleford rugby league legends book
Rugby league author and journalist Phil Hodgson admits he won’t please everybody with his new book 20 Legends: Castleford Rugby League.
Scratching Shed Publishing reprints three rugby league titles
Scratching Shed Publishing has reprinted three recently-released rugby league books, co-director Tony Hannan has revealed.
REVIEW: Down and Under, by Dave Hadfield
Ever considered the differences between hoons, larrikins, lairs, boofheads and bogans? Dave Hadfield gets to the bottom of this – and some of Australia’s other most pressing mysteries – in ...
FEATURE: Revealed – the top 10 rugby league books of 2010
Rugby League Books has been busy doing some research (no laughing at the back, please).
REVIEW: Coming Clean, by Terry Newton and Phil Wilkinson
Terry Newton’s death was the most upsetting, gut-wrenching rugby league story of 2010.
REVIEW: The Rugby League World Cup, by Tim Butcher and Malcolm Andrews
Originally published after the 2000 Rugby League World Cup, and updated after New Zealand’s stunning triumph in 2008, League Publications have produced another triumph for anyone interested in the history ...
REVIEW: Don’t die with the music in you, by Wayne Bennett
Nobody involved in rugby league commands as much respect as Wayne Bennett.
REVIEW: Gillette Rugby League Yearbook 2010-2011, by Tim Butcher and Daniel Spencer
The Gillette Rugby League Yearbook is now firmly established as a must-have annual purchase for rugby league's most committed fans.
REVIEW: Up and Over, by Dave Hadfield
Back in 2003, Dave Hadfield took part in a 220-mile charity trek across rugby league’s heartlands. Up and Over is the resulting vivid – and amusing – account of spending ...
Northern Rail Cup quarter-final draw
The Northern Rail Cup quarter final draw will take place on Wednesday March 24 and be broadcast live on Sky Sports’ weekly Boots n All programme which starts ...
State of Origin – head to head
As Queensland go for the jugular and a fourth-straight series win over New South Wales, we take a look at the teams that will battle it out for League supremacy ...
State of Origin – Game 1
Queensland are just one win away from completing a fourth-straight series win after dispatching New South Wales 28-18 in Melbourne.