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Sport and leisure books

January 2023

  • Toby Litt, author of A Writer’s Diary.

    In brief: A Writer’s Diary; The Race Against Time; Price Wars – reviews

    A clever, moving lockdown journal, an inspirational hymn to older runners and an insightful analysis of our volatile consumer economy

December 2022

  • Sport

    Best books 2022
    Five of the best sport books of 2022

    A warning about brain damage, a fresh perspective on Geoffrey Boycott, and the rise and tragic demise of a great cyclist

August 2022

  • Colson Whitehead

    In brief: Harlem Shuffle; Two Brothers; The Queen of Dirt Island – reviews

  • A village in the Himalayas.

    In brief: Carrie Soto Is Back; High; All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days – reviews

  • Jim Thorpe competes at the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912.

    ‘Everybody knew Jim Thorpe’: biographer David Maraniss on a pioneering athlete

  • Zlatan Ibrahimović

    Book of the day
    Adrenaline by Zlatan Ibrahimović review – he doesn’t just talk a good game

July 2022

  • Andy Ward

    Other lives
    Andy Ward obituary

    Other lives: Author of books on sports and higher education, including a narrative account of the Hillsborough disaster

June 2022

  • Australia v United States - Tokyo 2020 Olympics Football - Ibaraki Kashima Stadium Kashima, Japan, August 5th 2021:, Kashima, Japan - 05 Aug 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Daniela Porcelli/SPP/REX/Shutterstock (12249079g) Megan Rapinoe (15 United States) shoots the ball (action) during the Womenâ€s Olympic Football Tournament Tokyo 2020 match between Australia and the United States at Ibaraki Kashima Stadium, Kashima, Japan. Australia v United States - Tokyo 2020 Olympics Football - Ibaraki Kashima Stadium Kashima, Japan, August 5th 2021:, Kashima, Japan - 05 Aug 2021

    Book of the day
    A Woman’s Game by Suzanne Wrack review – taking back the pitch

    A fascinating history of women’s football from early 20th century heights, through suppression, to its present-day resurgence
  • Illustration by Alex McFadyen/Observer Design.

    The mind gym: five ways to make exercise a pleasure

    Feeling unmotivated, tired or discouraged? Sport scientists have tested the best methods for getting out of a slump and back to your personal best
  • Roger Federer plays his 1,500th match.

    Book of the day
    The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoff Dyer review – the art of bowing out

    From Roger Federer to Bob Dylan, George Best to Jean Rhys, Geoff Dyer roams widely in this finely crafted study of endings

May 2022

  • Garth Crooks during the FA Cup final between Tottenham and Manchester City, 1981.

    Book of the day
    A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped the Modern Game, edited by Calum Jacobs – review

    These pieces about players of the present and the past illuminate the racism that blighted the game and the bravery of trailblazers

January 2022

  • ‘What does my body say about who I am?’

    Sweat by Bill Hayes review – a history of the physical that gets personal

    An all-encompassing book about bodies and exercise through the ages that leaves you hungry for more
  • climber in the Dolomites, Italy

    Time on Rock by Anna Fleming review – vertiginous adventures

    An intimate account of 10 years spent learning to climb celebrates the “electrifying charge” of risk
  • **We have. cropped the original image for use with Saturday magazine Q&amp;A JAN 1 BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - JUNE 16: Adam Peaty, a member of the Great Britain Olympic Swimming team, poses for a portrait during a Tokyo 2020 Team GB Kitting session at NEC Arena on June 16, 2021 in Birmingham, England. (Photo by Karl Bridgeman/Getty Images for British Olympic Association)

    The Q&A
    Adam Peaty: ‘My trunks once ripped on the starting blocks when I was a teenager’

    The Olympic swimmer and author of The Gladiator Mindset on what he owes his parents and the time he went off a cliff

December 2021

  • The Thursday Murder Club, Girl Woman Other, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, The Appeal, Normal People, Exciting Times

    Lockdown reading
    Cosy crime, cookbooks and a surprise hit: what we’ve really read in the pandemic

  • The best sport books of 2021.

    Best books of 2021
    Best sport books of 2021

November 2021

  • John Barnes.

    In brief: The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism; The Manningtree Witches; The City of Mist

  • Jordan, left, and Pippen during their 90s heyday

    Scottie Pippen opens up on bitter rivalry with Michael Jordan in memoir

September 2021

  • Billie Jean King in 1972.

    All In: An Autobiography by Billie Jean King review – a true gamechanger

  • Nifty Network<br>Wimbledon champion Billie Jean King tactfully holds down the net, so that 55-year-old Bobby Riggs can easily clear it during meeting at an east side tennis club here July 11th. Returning in triumph from London, Mrs. King will meet Riggs in a $100,000 winner-take-all tennis match, it was announced July 11th.

    Book of the day
    All In by Billie Jean King review – game, set and match

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