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Norman Mailer's The Fight focuses on the 1975 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire, between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman.

End Zone is a clever, playful and, above all, funny novel, which confirms DeLillo's status as one of the great American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

This is a brilliant portrait of a highly complex man; a feat of literary ventriloquism, and a powerful portrait of another era, when players warmed up with a couple of pints, a game of cards and a packet of fags, before hoofing the ball about for 90 angry minutes in front of the terraces. Winners in those days got two points - not three like now - but losers got a right bloody bollocking from the gaffer.

People around the world have found inspiration in the story of Lance Armstrong- a world-class athlete nearly struck down by cancer, only to recover and win the Tour de France

Tinged with the melancholy and nostalgia of early steps into adulthood, it's the story of a young man's first experience of adult love, and of the discovery of his own limitations.

Sillitoe's depiction of petty crime and deep-seated anger in industrial and desperate cities remains as potent today as it was almost half a century ago.

The sport and one team in particular have crept into every aspect of Hornby's life- making him see the world through Arsenal-tinted spectacles.

Filled with intimate photographs, incredible musical stories and a powerful ecological message, this is a enchanting celebration of bike riding.

This is a book about heroism, and it is a strange one. What makes Roy Hobbs potentially a hero is his immense natural gift for playing baseball.

Packed with hilarious and embarrassing anecdotes about some of the greatest cricketers of the last 20 years.

As the sun goes down at the end of the match he realises that love, like cricket, is more than just a game. He sees one last chance to get his life into focus, if only there is time.

Ever since she picked up a racquet at the age of four, tennis has been Willy's one love, until the day she meets Eric Oberdorf.

It's a Saturday morning much like any other - until a rugby accident leaves Simon in hospital, paralysed with a spinal cord injury.

A startlingly original, hilariously funny and passionate treatise on cricket and those who worship at its wicket.

A Little Piece of Ground cleverly combines an exciting story with pressing political issues and as such is sure to encourage passionate debate.