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
The astonishing history of the rise, fall, and rise again of women's football, from the late 19th century to the present day.
Coffee first, then the world : one woman's record -breaking pedal around the planet
Graham, Jenny, (Endurance cyclist)
Paper Book
SELECTED FOR THE BBC AND READING AGENCY'S BIG SPORTING READ 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 - CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 - SPORT 'An amazing adventure... I was left in total awe' - Lorraine...
Eat, drink, run
Gordon, Bryony
Paper Book
The new hilarious and inspirational memoir from Sunday Times no. 1 bestselling author Bryony Gordon. 'A courageous account that will inspire us all - bloody brilliant' Fearne Cotton 'An honest and damn funny book about daring to...
Carrie Soto is back a novel
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
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
Unseen academicals
Pratchett, Terry
Paper Book
'This isn't just football, it's Discworld football. Or, to borrow another phrase, it's about life, the Universe and everything' The Times The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which...
Western Lane
Maroo, Chetna
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024 Longlisted for the William Hill Award 2023 A BBC Arts & The Reading Agency's Big Sporting Read selection Selected by Dua Lipa as one of Service95's 'Books of the Year' ...

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