Sports & Recreation audiobooks

Behind the Mask

By: Tyson Fury

Narrated by: Tyson Fury & Jake Wood

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION, IN HIS OWN WORDS
Read by Pound for Pound podcast's Jake Wood, with an introduction read by Tyson Fury.

The UK's bestselling boxing book since records began. Shortlisted for the 2020 Sports Biography of the Year.

The extraordinary story of the rise and fall and rise again of Tyson Fury...

THE GYPSY KING.

A Manchester lad from... Read more

Boot Sale

By: Nige Tassell

Narrated by: Rich Keeble

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

For football fans who hungrily feed on gossip and rumour, Christmas comes twice a year – once in August and again in January. These are the months when the transfer window dominates thoughts, when the prospect of a new signing or two reinvigorates the hopes and dreams of the hopelessly devoted.

Nige Tassell goes behind... Read more

Real Food On Trial

By: Dr Tim Noakes & Marika Sboros

Narrated by: Corrie James & Dennis Kleinman

Length: 20 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Real Food On Trial continues the true and shocking story of a world-first: the unprecedented prosecution and persecution of Professor Tim Noakes, a distinguished scientist and medical doctor, in a case that stretched over more than four years. All for a single tweet giving his opinion on nutrition. Noakes and investigative journalist Marika... Read more

The Suspect

By: Kent Alexander & Kevin Salwen

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A contributing source for the Warner Bros.’ film Richard Jewell starring Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde and Paul Walter Hauser!A gripping insider account of the terrorist bombing at the 1996 Olympic Games that captured the world’s attention, and the heroic security guard-turned-suspect at the heart of it allOn July 27, 1996, a... Read more

Ascent into Hell

By: Fergus White

Narrated by: Roger Clark

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

There is but one aim: the summit, the summit of Mount Everest.



What starts with a trouble-free trek into the Nepalese highlands explodes into a gripping tale of hardship, peril, and adversity. Pushed beyond their physical and mental limits, climbers drop by the wayside. Their primal instincts for survival battle with their dogged resolve to drag... Read more

The Twenty-Ninth Day

By: Alex Messenger

Narrated by: Alex Messenger

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old’s dream adventure, but after he is mauled by a grizzly bear, it’s all about staying alive.This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts seventeen-year-old Alex Messenger’s near-lethal encounter with a grizzly bear during a canoe trip in the Canadian tundra. The... Read more

If These Walls Could Talk

By: Jerry Remy, Nick Cafardo & Sean McDonough

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Sports and Fitness Bestseller



The Boston Red Sox are one of the most iconic teams in Major League Baseball, with nine World Series championships and countless greats who have donned the Sox uniform. In If These Walls Could Talk: Stories from the Boston Red Sox Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box, former player and longtime... Read more

A Fly in a Pail of Milk

By: Herb Carnegie

Narrated by: Leon Nixon & Adenrele Ojo

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Revised and updated with commentary from Bernice Carnegie, Herb's daughter, and life lessons passed from father to daughter.

Herbert Carnegie was the complete hockey package in the 1940s and 1950s. Though his contributions to society both in sport and education have been referenced and profiled in books, documentaries, and thousands of... Read more

My A-Z of Cricket

By: Henry Blofeld

Narrated by: Henry Blofeld

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Legendary cricket broadcaster Henry Blofeld takes the reader on a journey from A-Z through the world of cricket.

In his trademark charming style, Blowers goes through the alphabet, explaining some of the puzzling cricket terminology and regaling his favourite anecdotes from his fifty years in the sport, covering the most important moments in the... Read more

Tengo razones de peso. Porque el peso tiene razones.

By: Eva Campos Navarro

Narrated by: Esther Minguito

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"¿Te das excusas constantes para no empezar la dieta? ¿La empiezas, pero a los dos días la abandonas? Cuando nos planteamos comenzar una dieta o un proceso de pérdida de peso, comenzamos con ganas pero esas ganas ¡plop! Desaparecen a las semanas o quizás, días. A veces, el mismo día que la comienzas. Y es que, entre excusas y ese Gemelo Malvado... Read more

The City Game

By: Matthew Goodman

Narrated by: Joe Ochman

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The powerful story of a college basketball team who carried an era’s brightest hopes—racial harmony, social mobility, and the triumph of the underdog—but whose success was soon followed by a shocking downfall

“A masterpiece of American storytelling.”—Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Devil in the Grove

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST SPORTS... Read more

Kid Athletes

By: David Stabler

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Forget the gold medals, the championships, and the undefeated seasons. When all-star athletes were growing up, they had regular-kid problems just like you. Baseball legend Babe Ruth was such a troublemaker that his family sent him to reform school. Race-car champion Danica Patrick fended off bullies who told her “girls can’t drive.” And football... Read more

Stealing Home

By: Ron Seybold

Narrated by: Ron Seybold

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"Tenderly poignant, wise and affecting." KirkusIn an epic road trip with his Little League son, a divorced dad's eight-ballpark journey tries to rescue his fatherhood--and learn how his dad's suicide might not doom him to repeat a father's mistakes. The rarest outcome in sports is baseball's perfect game. One team does everything right, forcing... Read more

All Blood Runs Red

By: Tom Clavin & Phil Keith

Narrated by: James Shippy

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible story of the first African American military pilot, who went on to become a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer

Eugene Bullard lived one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. The son of a former slave and an indigenous Creek woman, Bullard fled home at... Read more

Fasting with Keto: Beginner Guide to Ketogenic Diet with Fasting & Apple Cider Vinegar Uses

By: Greenleatherr

Narrated by: Russell Newton

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to perform the 8:16 intermittent fasting diet properly and successfully. It also guide you to maintain the ketogenic way of eating and enjoy your favorite sweet treats sans the guilt.  Have you ever seen Hugh Jackman’s impressive physique in Wolverine? Will you believe me if I tell you that... Read more

Down to Earth

By: Monty Don

Narrated by: Monty Don

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Unrivalled gardening wisdom from Monty Don, including essential tips, knowledge and musings from his 50 years of gardening experience.

This is Monty Don right beside you in the garden, challenging norms and sharing advice.

Discover Monty's thoughts and garden ideas around nature, seasons, color, design, pests, flowering shrubs, containers and... Read more

Magic Spanner

By: Carlton Kirby & Robbie Broughton

Narrated by: Carlton Kirby

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Magic Spanner written and read by Carlton Kirby.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2020 – CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR

'A genuine one-off with a ready wit and a killer anecdote to hand at all times' – Ian Cleverly, Rouleur

'Carlton Kirby is no ordinary cycling commentator, so it is not surprising that this very... Read more

Súper Keto

By: James Dinicolantonio & Dr. Joseph Mercola

Narrated by: Ricardo Correa

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Respuestas que disiparán la desinformación en torno al tema de las grasas, para perder peso y maximizar nuestra salud. ¿Es dañino cocinar con aceite de coco? ¿Los aceites vegetales son más saludables que las grasas animales? ¿Las grasas saturadas aumentan el colesterol y el riesgo de ataques cardíacos? ¿Comer grasa nos hace subir de peso? Si en... Read more

What You Think You Know About Football is Wrong

By: Kevin Moore

Narrated by: Ed Killingback

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents What You Think You Know About Football is Wrong by Kevin Moore, read by Ed Killingback.

Our view of football will never be the same again… Written by a world-respected football historian, this football history/gift title reveals the global game’s greatest myths and untruths.

Football has been completely mythologized and many of... Read more

Roaring Back

By: Curt Sampson

Narrated by: Kyle Tait

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

One publicly imploded marriage. Two car accidents. Eight surgeries. And now, a miracle of hard work and storied talent: five Masters wins. Once hailed as "the greatest closer in history" before he fell further than any beloved athlete in America's memory, Tiger swung at the world's wildest expectations and beat the skeptics with his April 2019... Read more

Great Australian Sporting Stories

By: Ian Heads & Norman Tasker

Narrated by: Chris Chapple

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

'Heads and Tasker, legends themselves, set out to write a book that would continue the trail laid by early-days sporting scribes of long ago. I could not put it down.' John Coates AC, President of the Australian Olympic Committee

'I know readers will enjoy the many stories and anecdotes that Heads and Tasker have accumulated over more than a... Read more

Scotty

By: Ken Dryden

Narrated by: Ken Dryden

Length: 15 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A hockey life like no other.

A hockey book like no other.

Scotty Bowman is recognized as the best coach in hockey history, and one of the greatest coaches in all of sports. He won more games and more Stanley Cups than anyone else. Despite all the changes in hockey, he coached at the very top for more than four decades, his first... Read more

Gehrig and The Babe

By: Tony Castro

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Gehrig & The Babe: The Friendship and The Feud is the emotionally gripping, electrifying account of the relationship of legendary New York Yankee icons Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth and the tragic behind-the-scenes fight that bitterly tore them apart until Gehrig was dying of a horrific disease.



Written by historian and best-selling author Tony... Read more

Meb For Mortals

By: Meb Keflezighi

Narrated by: David Sadzin

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Train like Olympic marathoner and 2014 Boston Marathon winner Meb Keflezighi



With his historic win at the 2014 Boston Marathon, Meb Keflezighi cemented his legacy as one of the great champions of long-distance running. Runners everywhere wanted to know how someone two weeks away from his thirty-ninth birthday, who had only the fifteenth best time... Read more