It’s a bit of a cliché, but football books really do work at getting reluctant readers on the path to lifelong reading for pleasure. By popular demand, we offer an extensive range of HALF PRICE non-fiction and fiction football titles.
Consistently in our top sellers lists, the Ultimate Football Heroes books tell the life stories of today’s top-flight footballers in a lively and engaging way. Messi, Mbappe, Marta… there’s a book for every fan, and as well as individual titles we offer series collections to give you a quick and easy way of boosting or replacing these always-in-demand books.
The Tales From the Pitch series is another popular one, with copies always flying off the library shelves. Littered with tips, tricks and inside jokes, these books are great deep dives for avid fans.
Award-winning author Eve Ainsworth loves her football, and has a flair for telling engrossing and inclusive football stories. In All To Play For, Lewis loves football more than anything, but faces financial and family obstacles in trying to follow his football dreams. Can he overcome the odds? In Finding Her Feet, a Barrington Stoke title, the shy and anxious Lily discovers she has a natural talent for football. Will the game help her finally find her place in the world?
In his Unofficial Story series, Harry Meredith digs deeper into the lives of some of today’s most exciting and inspiring players to find out how they achieved success while still in their teens.
The Football Mad books follow the fictional ups and downs of the Dale Juniors team both on and off the field as teammates Scott, Danny and Jack deal with the challenges of school and sporting life.
The Frankie’s Magic Football series from Chelsea legend Frank Lampard bring magic, time travel, dinosaurs and even virtual players into the mix, making them appealing and engaging stories for all sorts of readers.
We have loads more football titles to choose from for readers of all levels, including some favourite characters and a fascinating collection of incredible true stories from Ultimate Football Heroes author Matt Oldfield.