Big Sporting Read

The Reading Agency and BBC Arts has launched the Big Sporting Read, with a list of 25 titles celebrating a landmark summer of sport. The campaign aims to use the power of sport to inspire readers across the UK, highlighting the links between sporting excellent, reading, health and wellbeing.

Here are the titles available at Kirklees Libraries.

Updated June 26, 2024
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A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Football
Wrack, Suzanne
Paper Book
A compelling and comprehensive history charting the rise, fall, and rise again of women's soccer Women's soccer is a game that has so often been relegated to the margins in a world fixated on gender differences above passion and talent. It is a game that could attract 50,000 fans...
Don't tell me you're afraid
Catozzella, Giuseppe
Paper Book
Based on a remarkable true story, an unforgettable Somali girl risks her life on the migrant journey to Europe to run in the Olympic Games   At eight years of age, Samia lives to run. She shares her dream with her best friend and neighbor, Ali, who appoints himself her...
Eat, Drink, Run: How I Got Fit Without Going Too Mad
Gordon, Bryony
Paper Book
The new hilarious and inspirational memoir from Sunday Times no1 bestselling author Bryony Gordon. Bryony Gordon was not a runner. A loafer, a dawdler, a drinker, a smoker, yes. A runner, no. Yet somehow, as she began to recover from the emotional...
Carrie Soto Is Back: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
Jenkins Reid, Taylor
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "An epic adventure about a female athlete perhaps past her prime, brought back to the tennis court for one last grand slam" (Elle), from the author of Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The boys in the boat : an epic journey to the heart of Hitler's Berlin
Brown, Daniel
Paper Book
Now a Major Motion Picture Directed by George Clooney The #1 New York Times-bestselling story about the American Olympic rowing triumph in Nazi Germany--from the author of Facing the Mountain. For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the...
Unseen academicals
Pratchett, Terry
Paper Book
"Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork - not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you drop them. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic,...
Western Lane
Maroo, Chetna
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself. "Few novelists write this simply and richly....
Fearless : adventures with extraordinary women
Minchin, Louise
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 SELECTED FOR THE BBC AND READING AGENCY'S BIG SPORTING READ 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 - WOMEN'S SPORT WRITING AWARD A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 - SPORT

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