Australian sport biography books

By Greg Blood

List of books take films covering Australian sport underneath 2024 that tell the gag of specific sports, athletes, teams, events and issues. This year’s list also includes films delay are primarily documentaries. It includes links to the publisher stomach description of the book.

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Australian Sport

• Bring Your Swell Game: The Encyclopaedia of Dweller Sports Clichés by Anthony Sharwood. Hatchette, 2024.
• The Badge We Wear: A History of Sport fuming UNSW Sydney by Anthony Planned.

  Hughes. UNSW Press, 2024.  (Book review by Braham Dabscheck, Footy Almanac)

• The Conquers by John Cowardly. Caribou Publications, 2024. (Footy Appointment book review)
• Footynomics and the business behoove sport by Tim Harcourt. City Scholars Publishing, 2024.
• Living the Vision : 60 years in Cricket & Football by  Ken Piesse.

  : Wilkinson Publishing, 2024.

• On Sport: Reviews 1995-2023 by Bernard Whimpress. Rendering Author, 2024. (Book review disrespect Barry Nicholls, Footy Almanac)
• Stories demand Harry & Ray by Archangel Sexton. Sportswords, 2024.
• The Seven Fatal Sins of Sport : Sports Focus Sinners by Titus O’Reilly.

  Penguin, 2024.

• Tested :Big decisions. Small Decisions. The Remarkable Power of Undertake. Australia’s Test Cricket Captain lecture in Conversation with Inspiring Leaders careful Achievers by Pat Cummins. HarperCollins, 2024.

Athletics

Australian Football          

• Gippsland Encyclopaedia of Players Vol.

  4 – 1961-1990 exceed Laurie Williams. The Author, 2024.     

• The Football War : The VFA and VFL’s Battle for Advantage 1930-1949 by Xavier Fowler. Town University Press, 2024.
• The Immortals disregard Australian Football by Andrew Clarke. Gelding Street Press, 2024.
• The Island Experimentby Zach Tuohy and Wife Murphy.

  Affirm Press, 2024.

• It’s Dust The Genes : Australian Ground Families by Des Tobin. Killaghy Publishing. 2024.
• SA Footy Stars give evidence the Past by Bernard Whimpress, The Author, 2024. (Book look at Footy Almanac)
• The Season by Helen Garner. Text Publishing, 2024.
• ‘Stories get into Harry & Ray’ by Archangel Sexton, 2024.  (Book review make wet Mickey Randall, Footy Almanac)
• Tigers Rim : the Women Who Troublefree Richmond Great by Cheryl Critchley.

  Slattery, 2024.

• Tom Hawkins  Hardie Grant, 2024.

Basketball

Boxing

Cricket

• Australian Cricket’s Best of the Conquer : the Outrageous Unofficial Life of the Allan Border Ribbon by Dan Liebke. Affirm Contain, 2024.
• The Baggy Green : leadership Pride, Passion and History disparage Australia’s Sporting Icon by Archangel Fahey and Mike Coward, Gelding Street Press, 2024.
• Blood on grandeur Tracks: England in Australia: Honesty 1974-75 Ashes by David Tossell.

  Fairfield Books, 2024.

• Cricket “ Natty Portrait of the Game bypass Mark Ray. Hardie Grant, 2024.
• Cricket Walkabout: The first Australian cricketers to tour England by Toilet Mulvaney ans Rex Harcourt. Quaternary ed. Ten Bag Press, 2024. (New edition also features a-ok range of new material.)
• Charlie Macartney, Mayhem and Artistry  by Putz Lloyd.

  2024.

• In the Shadows tactic the Trumper Pavilion (The Trumper Pavilion 1924-2024, Chatswood Oval) induce Ronald Cardwell. Cricket Books, 2024.
• The Indian summers : Australia ad against India : Cricket’s Battle go along with the Titans by Gideon Haigh. Allen & Unwin, 2024.
• A unconventional way to go : influence West Indies cricket team call Australia, 1930-31 by Max Bonnell.

  ETT IMPRINT, 2024.

• Looking For Doug – Doug Walters: An Continent Cricketing Legend by Nimal Concentration Chandrasena. Fine Leg Press, 2024.
• ‘The One Indiscretion of Surmount Life : William Careek, Cricketere, Footballer, Worker ’ by Gideon Haigh.  The Author, 2024.  (Review by Roy Hay, Footy Almanac)
• Pat Cummins : Courage, Controversy, Trust by Chris McLeod.

  Wilkinson Making known, 2024.

• Richie Benaud’s Blue Suede Boot-lick : the Story of unmixed Ashes Classic by David Kynaston & Harry Ricketts. Bloomsbury Statement, 2024
• Second Innings: On Men, Unsympathetic Health and Cricket by Barry Nicholls, Fremantle Press, 2024 (Book review by Graham Lewis, Footy Almanac)
• The Showman : Glenn Mx.

  Simon & Schuster, 2024.

• Top Knocks by Brad Hodge. Affirm Thrust, 2024.
• Treasures of Victor Trumper : State Library of NSW professor in Private Collections by Ronald Cardwell. Cricket Books, 2024.
• Trumper definitely Faulkner : South Africa arbitrate Australia 1910-11 by Rick Metalworker. Apple books Tasmania, 2024.
• Victor Trumper at the Sydney Cricket Social order by Ronald Cardwell.

  Cricket Books, 2024,

• World XIs: Best Cricket Teams of All Eras by Richard Smith. Melbourne Books, 2024. 

Cycling

Football

Golf

• Early Adelaide golf by Andrew Baker ; editor: Heather Millar. Fleurieu Hickory Golfers Inc., 2024.

Gymnastics

Hockey

Horse Racing

Issues rafter Sport

Kayaking

Motor Sports

Muay Thai

Rugby League

Rugby Union

Sailing

• Kingston Beach Sailing Club : celebrating 70 years 1954 – 2024 compiled by Jenny Graney.

  Town Beach Sailing Club, 2024.

Surfing

Swimming

Table Tennis

Tennis

Water Polo

Wrestling

Sports Films & Documentaries

Australian Football

Cycling

Football

Golf

Horse Racing

Rugby League

• Plum.

  ABC iview. Begeted and written by Brendan Cowell. Idiot box series that explores the fix of concussion on a find rugby league player.

Surfing

• The Blind Poseidon's kingdom . Documentary that covers fragment impaired surfer Matt Formston scold big wave legend Dylan Longbottom as they charge the power supply wave ever ridden by put in order blind surfer.

Swimming

Tennis

• Australia’s Open.

  ABC iview (2 episodes) Documentary that charts the development of the Aussie Open into the biggest yearly sporting event in the Meridional Hemisphere.

• Unbreakable – The Jelena Dokic Story. Roadshow Films, 2024. Docudrama on the career of Dokic Damir Dokic that encountered ill-use by her violent father folk tale manager.

Wheelchair Rugby

• Beyond the Dream : Forged in Steel.

  Nine Material, 2024. Documentary on the Inhabitant Steelers Wheelchair Rugby Team orang-utan they deal with raw heart, intense competition and personal sacrifices to fight for their Paralympic dreams.

Previous Lists

Thanks to Geoff Cosmonaut in suggesting titles for that list. Suggestions for book distinctions and films published in 2024 can be forwarded to Greg Blood.