Sports & Recreation audiobooks

Campeones del fútbol mundial

By: Ann Killion

Narrated by: Eduardo Biscayart

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

En tus manos está la mejor guía al fútbol masculino mundial. Conoce a Pelé, Messi y Tim Howard mientras revives los momentos que hacen al fútbol el deporte más apasionante del planeta.

Desde los campos de fútbol en Estados Unidos, hasta las calles de América Latina y los estadios de Europa y Asia, la pasión por el fútbol no conoce fronteras. Es,... Read more

Becoming Forrest

By: Rob Pope

Narrated by: Rob Pope

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times across the United States. ‘Rob Pope has made his name revelling in challenges that range from the unconventional to the extraordinary.’ BBC News ... Read more

Sir Alex

By: Harry Harris

Narrated by: Simon Mattacks

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A must-read biography of one of the greatest football managers of all time.

Sir Alex Ferguson CBE, born 31 December 1941, is a former Scottish football player and was manager of Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. During his 26 years in charge of United, he won more trophies than any other manager in the history of football.

Packed with nearly 80... Read more

Did Not Sink

By: George Mahood

Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The lure of a gold-coloured silicon hat is enough to convince George to sign up once again to the Dart 10k swim.But to get the gold hat, he has to swim it twice.Despite the trauma of the previous year’s Dartmoor Classic, George and Rachel sign up again. This time the weather takes a turn for the worse and Rachel is forced to make some creative... Read more

The Expedition

By: Chris Fagan

Narrated by: Chris Fagan

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet married couple Chris and Marty. At midlife, they unexpectedly find themselves weighing the responsibility of parenthood against the possibility of one more grand adventure. After securing care for their twelve-year-old son, they set off to undertake one of the hardest challenges on the planet: Ski 570 miles from the edge of Antarctica to... Read more

The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism

By: John Barnes

Narrated by: John Barnes

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An eloquent and thought-provoking audiobook on racism and prejudice by the Liverpool and England football legend John Barnes.

John Barnes spent the first dozen years of his life in Jamaica before moving to the UK with his family in 1975. Six years later he was a professional footballer, distinguishing himself for Watford, Liverpool and England,... Read more

Schon gehört? Wiliam Cavendish The 1st Duke of Newcastle

By: Barbara Welter-Böller & Marion Wilimzig

Narrated by: Barbara Welter-Böller & Marion Wilimzig

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The 1st Duke of Newcastle (1593-1676) war in vielerlei Hinsicht eine außergewöhnliche Persönlichkeit. Unzählige Reitausbilder nach ihm profitierten erheblich von seinen Werken über die Ausbildung von Pferden. Wer sich in der eigenen Reiterei auf die klassische Lehre der Alten Reitmeister beruft, kommt an Newcastle nicht vorbei. Neben den... Read more

The Runner's Code

By: Chas Newkey-Burden

Narrated by: Elliot Chapman

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Runner's Code by Chas Newkey-Burden, read by Elliot Chapman.

BEST BOOKS OF 2021: SPORT – WATERSTONES SELECTION

Cracking... full of running gems, realities and giggles. Nice work!' – Martin Yelling, Marathon Talk

‘Lovely – very impressive’ – TalkSPORT

'From now on, if anyone I know mentions that they want to start running,... Read more

Devotion

By: Mickey Harte

Narrated by: Patrick Fitzsymons

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving and lyrical memoir about life, love and loss, from a true giant of Gaelic games. In a frenetic seven-year spell at the outset of his senior managerial career, Mickey Harte led Tyrone to four Ulster Championships and three All-Irelands. It was a run that shifted football’s balance of power, changed the way the game... Read more

Sonny Bill Williams

By: Sonny Bill Williams & Alan Duff

Narrated by: Tyrone Ngatai

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Sonny Bill Williams (SBW) is a once in a hundred-year athlete with immense sporting talent in Rugby League, Rugby Union and Boxing. Sonny Bill has built an incredible career and sporting reputation across the globe. His athleticism has taken him from inner-city Auckland, where he grew up, to the highest sporting moments in Twickenham, Eden Park... Read more

Centered

By: Anthony Ianni & Rob Keast

Narrated by: Anthony Ianni

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"They don't know me. They don't know what I'm capable of." Diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder, a form of autism, as a toddler, Anthony Ianni wasn't expected to succeed in school or participate in sports, but he had other ideas. As a child, Ianni told anybody who would listen, including head coach Tom Izzo, that he would one day play... Read more

Did Not Start

By: George Mahood

Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Rachel marks her cycling sportive debut in style with 110 horrendously hilly miles that are apparently all George’s fault.Now officially a better marathon runner than George - and a rapidly improving cyclist and swimmer – Rachel is pushed to the limits after reluctantly agreeing to an ultramarathon.Did Not Start also features more family camping... Read more

It's Better to Be Feared

By: Seth Wickersham

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 19 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Over two unbelievable decades, the New England Patriots were not only the NFL’s most dominant team, but also—and by far—the most secretive. How did they achieve and sustain greatness—and what were the costs?In It’s Better to Be Feared, Seth Wickersham, one of the nation’s finest investigative sportswriters, presents the definitive account of the... Read more

Over the Boards

By: Hayley Wickenheiser

Narrated by: Katie Ryerson

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“Hayley Wickenheiser is an incredible human being . . . this is what a billion hours of hard work looks like.”
—Ryan Reynolds

The greatest women’s hockey player of all time, Hayley Wickenheiser shares the lessons that won her four Olympic gold medals, and hard-earned wisdom distilled from moments when she fell short.

There is no... Read more

Unearthing The Secret Garden

By: Marta McDowell

Narrated by: Jane Copland

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“McDowell’s gorgeous book opens an ivy-covered door to new information about one of the world’s most famous authors.”—Angelica Shirley Carpenter, editor of In the GardenNew York Times bestselling author Marta McDowell has revealed the way that plants have stirred some of our most cherished authors, including Beatrix Potter, Emily Dickinson, and... Read more

Deep Fitness

By: Philip Shepherd & Andrei Yakovenko

Narrated by: Philip Shepherd

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Research shows that increasing your muscle strength is the single most important thing you can do for your physical and mental health. This book shows you how--in just 30 minutes a day, once or twice a week--using the science-backed MSTF method.

The mixed messages we’ve received about exercise, aerobics, and mental and physical fitness are all... Read more

A Helluva Life in Hockey

By: Brian McFarlane

Narrated by: Brian McFarlane

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating memoir from Canada’s foremost hockey historian and a beloved NHL commentator It’s been 85 years since Brian McFarlane first laced a pair of skates and tested the black ice on a tiny pond. And then he discovered the joy of hockey. Ultimately, there would be grade school hockey, high school hockey, junior hockey, college... Read more

Did Not Try

By: George Mahood

Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

After signing his wife Rachel up for her first marathon without her knowledge and living to tell the tale, George is now struggling to keep up with her. He risks her wrath once again by entering her into a half-Ironman triathlon against her will: a 1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike ride and a 13.1-mile run.Did Not Try sees George and Rachel travel to... Read more

Tennis Mastermind

By: Dejan Simic

Narrated by: Rick Font

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

An exciting place for Tennis Players and Tennis Lovers!

Studies have proven that for people of any age, gender, or athletic ability, tennis is the best sport for a lifetime, an exceptional choice of cardio training, leading to unimaginable heights and gives confidence.

When it comes to a high level of competing in tennis, it is of primary... Read more

Autobiografía

By: Hristo Stoichkov & Vladimir Pamukov

Narrated by: Hristo Stoichkov

Length: 20 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Hristo Stoichkov, El Pistolero del legendario Dream Team del FC Barcelona, nos trae su auténtica autobiografía. El máximo goleador de la Copa Mundial de 1994 nos revela su alma sin maquillaje, pretensiones ni cohibiciones. Directo, volcánico y fiel a su imagen de aquella época en la que millones de seguidores admiraban al mágico Nº8.

En este... Read more

Klondikers

By: Tim Falconer

Narrated by: Matthew Josdal

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of The Boys in the Boat and Against All Odds



Join a ragtag group of misfits from Dawson City as they scrap to become the 1905 Stanley Cup champions and cement hockey as Canada's national pastime.



An underdog hockey team traveled for three and a half weeks from Dawson City to Ottawa to play for the Stanley Cup in 1905. The Klondikers'... Read more

A Sailor, A Chicken, An Incredible Voyage

By: Guirec Soudée

Narrated by: Trevor Lawless

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“Exciting, funny, and occasionally heart-stopping … readers can stay home and dry, but feel like they are on the high seas.”—BOOKLIST

A man and his chicken sail 45,000 nautical miles in this powerful story of following your dreams no matter what stands in your way.

When Guirec Soudée was 21 years old, he bought a 30-foot sailboat and set out... Read more

Everyday Yoga

By: Yogeswar

Narrated by: Anuj Datta

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In the past few years, the popularity of yoga as the ultimate key to fitness, both physical and mental, has resulted in a plethora of books, videos and audio tapes designed to guide a learner through the various asanas prescribed by the Yogasutra. Everyday Yoga goes one step further by telling you not merely how to practise an asana the right... Read more

Believe

By: Suresh Raina & Bharat Sundaresan

Narrated by: Siddhant

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Believe, Sachin Tendulkar told him - and he took it to heart, getting the word etched on his arm as a tattoo.
In this book, Suresh Raina takes us through the challenges he faced as a young cricketer. He was bullied in school and at cricket camps, but he always punched above his weight, overcoming every adversity life threw at him and never giving... Read more