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 :
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...
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 :
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
Discworld lives on inUnseen Academicals, the latest novel from Terry Pratchett. Delivering the trademark insight and humor readers the world over have come to expect from "the...

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