Schools rugby league, an area of the sport through which hundreds of thousands of players have passed during the last century, has finally been recognised with a superb book documenting ...
He has been one of the defining faces of Super League over the last 15 years, but Lee Briers will not be lacing his boots in 2014.
Who is rugby league’s biggest bad boy? Gareth Hock? Willie Mason? Ten years ago Barrie McDermott would have been up there, too. But none of them compare to Jim Mills, ...
Michael Miles only started watching rugby league three years ago when London’s Evening Standard ran a promotion offering free tickets to watch Harlequins (as they were then), but he has ...
Jamie Bloem is standing in a corridor in the bowels of the Halliwell Jones Stadium, coffee in hand, preparing to commentate on one of the coldest matches Super League has ...
Brian Noble has revealed his pride at his new book Building Winning Teams after a successful launch period in the run up to Christmas.
How will you remember 2012?
It’s been a busy year in rugby league publishing. Here’s our rundown of what’s hit the shelves this year.
Few rugby league books can ever have started with quite so much intensity as Coaching Is Chaos.
Adrian Morley has been around a bit. So long, in fact, that he actually played alongside Ellery Hanley, the last British hero of rugby league who was appreciated Down Under ...
Robbie Hunter-Paul was always a little different. Part of his appeal was that you never knew – and often got the impression he didn’t either – what was coming next. ...
At whatever level it’s played, rugby has always been about passion. You need it to be able to step on to the pitch, you need it to run struggling amateur ...
Malcolm Alker has defended his controversial autobiography The Devil Within as he prepares for the book’s release.
There have been plenty of critics of the Daily Telegraph’s rugby league coverage during recent years, but there can be few who could question DT sub-editor Gary Slater’s love of ...
How will you remember 2011? Sam Tomkins’ brilliance? Darren Lockyer’s farewell? Or Leeds’ back-from-the-dead title surge? Whatever your memory, the Gillette Rugby League Yearbook captures it all in its usual ...
For decades young British football fans have had a guaranteed inclusion on their Christmas list: the Shoot Annual. Finally, rugby league has its own.
Rarely can a rugby league book have required such research and dedication, but in The King of Brilliance author Graham Morris has produced a work that is worthy of its ...
Want to know what happened when Kevin Sinfield threw a bowl of peanuts at Gary Hetherington? The truth behind Keith Senior’s 2005 Challenge Cup final injury? Or – perhaps less ...
It says much about Paul Loughlin’s career that, even after 10 years in retirement, the former St Helens, Bradford and Great Britain centre can still command enough interest to publish ...
For sheer warts-and-all honesty, From Hull to Hell and back is up there with Sean Long’s autobiography.
As a player, John Stankevitch was honest and tough. Being John Stankevitch is exactly the same.
It is a measure of Garfield Owen’s quality and profile as a rugby union player in the 1950s that his signing of a Halifax rugby league contract was televised live ...
Only a select group of British rugby league personalities have been recognised with an honour from the Queen.
Sometimes it is our earliest actions that most affect our future. Life-changing moments can be traced back to a throwaway conversation or a lightly-considered decision that reverberates during the years ...
We’ve all got them, locked away in the back of our mind somewhere.
No Sand Dunes in Featherstone is a wonderful collection of nostalgia for those old enough to remember some of the moments recalled.
Anybody searching for a rugby league book that combines emotion, nostalgia and dignity can stop looking now.
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.
Alan Tucker’s book Border City Blues will go down as the definitive history of Carlisle rugby league.
Sean Long has done it all.