Rugby League Biographies and autobiographies

Special Clearance Offer £2.95 UK only, add £5 for overseas postage Kiwis, Wigan and The Wire My Life and Rugby League By Ces Mountford Ces Mountford is recognised as one of the greatest Kiwi Rugby League players of all time. He joined Wigan...

Peter Fox The players’ coach By Graham Williams and Peter Lush Peter Fox was involved in professional rugby league for almost 50 years. After playing for Sharlston Rovers, he had a 13 year playing career with Featherstone Rovers, Batley, Hull...

A great new autobiography from one of the north’s leading television and radio broadcasters. In a broadcasting and journalism career of over 50 years, Keith Macklin has covered all the major sports, in particular rugby league, football and cricket. ...

SPECIAL OFFER Building the Family Game - A Rugby League memoir by Maurice Oldroyd Maurice Oldroyd was one of the key people involved in the development of amateur rugby league since the foundation of the British Amateur Rugby League Association...

Newlove - At the centre of Rugby League By Paul Newlove with Andrew Quirke Paul Newlove has been one the key players in British rugby league over the past 15 years, but has rarely been interviewed in the press. In 1995, he became the world?s most...

SPECIAL OFFER £6.95 post free - save £6 on the cover price Rugby's Greatest Mystery Who really was F.S. Jackson? This is the story of a man whose life was made up of mystery, intrigue and deception, but was also a Rugby Union star before the...

From being a young South African rugby union player, Jamie Bloem developed into a star rugby league player. From 1992 to 2005 he played every position on the field in a career that took in Castleford, Oldham, Doncaster, Widnes and Huddersfield, but...

At last, the untold story of a true rugby league legend! James Lomas was arguably the code’s first superstar and created scoring records that survived the test of time. Born in the...

SPECIAL OFFER £10.95 - save £1 on the cover price Jack Fish was one of Rugby League’s superstars in the sport’s early years. He was signed by Warrington in 1898, and soon established himself in the first team. He played in four Challenge Cup...

Anyone who ever watched Austin Rhodes play rugby will say that he was a good ‘un. He was virtually the complete player and his wide range of skills meant that he could cover several positions on the field. Although several of his major triumphs were...

Jim Mills truly was a ‘Rugby Giant’. At six foot four inches tall and a playing weight of 18 stone, he made a huge impact as a fast-running, ball-handling prop forward. He was also one of the toughest forwards in professional rugby league at a time...

Harry Pinner was one of the great loose forwards of the 1980s – a master of his craft, whose defence-splitting passes lit up an era when the ‘biff’ was still an integral part of rugby league. Professional players had to be tough to survive, never...

A Welshman in Halifax Garfield Owen - Rugby Footballer By Andrew Hardcastle Garfield Owen was one of the great full-backs of his generation in both rugby codes. He played rugby union for Newport and won six caps for Wales in 1955 and 1956. He then...

Sully's Way - Mick Sullivan Rugby League Legend by Graham Williams SPECIAL OFFER - £12.50 post free in UK, published at £12.95. Mick Sullivan was one of the greatest rugby league players of the post war period. He made a record 46 appearances for...

Biography of Harold Wagstaff, known as 'The Prince of Centres' and one of the key players in the development of Rugby League in the early 20th century. He played for Huddersfield Yorkshire, England and Great Britain, including captaining Great...

Geoff Gunney MBE Geoff Gunney was raised in Hunslet and made his debut for Hunslet RLFC in November 1951 at Parkside aged only 17. He played for the club for 22 years, including the 1965 Challenge Cup Final, 1959 Championship Final and two Yorkshire...

Dennis Hartley, the most fearsome of props in an era of feared front-row men, played rugby league in what was not only another age, but almost another universe. The man from Hemsworth, south of Pontefract, was uncannily transformed on entering the...

Bill Ashurst is widely recognised as one of the outstanding second-row forwards in rugby league since the Second World War. This hard hitting autobiography covers his full rugby league career and much more, including: • Playing for Wigan, Penrith...

From Swn-Y-Mor to Seattle - Nicko's rugby odyssey by Mike Nicholas. Mike Nicholas has spent a lifetime in rugby. A boyhood Aberavon fan, he stood on the terraces with Richard Burton before captaining his school’s rugby union team as they remained...