An Athletics Compendium

j L 10 - 22 Adult Fiction Crampsey, Robert A. Gamer, Shelley 10 Our country's battles. Belfast: Blackstaff, 1986. 116p ISBN: 0-85640-357-1 (cased)• 0-85640-358-X (pbk) BL: YC.1986.a.2869 The story oaf freelance reporter coveringthe 1968' Olympics atMexico City, with a v\v\d chapter onBob Beamon's worldrecord longjump. Edmonds, Frances 11 Games. London: Orion, 1996. viii, 289p ISBN: 0-7528-0064-7 BL: YC.1996.b.6788 A story of pressure oBnraitish sprinter to use drugs to win the Olympic 100m in the year 2000. Evans, I. O. 12 Olympic runner: a story tohfe great days of Ancient Greece / illustrated by Edward Osmond. London: Hutchinson, 1955. 256p; illus; index BL: 7922.ee.5 Ferguson, Peter 13 Monster Clough: a novel. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1962. 189p BL: Nov.4200 A convincing account of an athletic career from schooldays to retirement. The height of 'Monster' Clough's achievement is a county championship, but his contests in minor club meetings arerelated with compelling skill. Unusually, the hero is a field events athlete, initiaallylong jumper and lataershot putter. Fraser, Alison 14 Running wild. Richmond: Mills & Boon, 1996. 188p; pbk ISBN: 0-263-14808-4 (cased) • 0-263-79575-6 (pbk) BL: H.96/2587 Romantic story of atnhlete who dreameodf winning an Olympicmedal. Frith, Nigel 15 Olympiad. London: Unwin Paperbacks, 1988. 224p; pbk ISBN: 0-04-440155-8 BL: H.88/916 Set in the yearof the firstOlympics, this tellsthe story osfuitor-runners wchoompete for the haonfd Atalanta. 16 The flame and the vision. London: Frederick Muller, 1962. 254p; illus BL:Nov.4132 About a pentathlon competitor in the ancient Olympic Games. Glanville, Brian 17 The Olympian. London: Seeker & Warburg, 1969. 310p SBN: 436-18105-3 BL: Nov.13876 The narrative traces pthroegress oaf promising 18 year oldworking-class club quarter-miler. Goddard, Kenneth 18 Balefire. London: Corgi, 1983. 337p; pbk Originally published: Toronto: Bantam, 1982 ISBN: 0-552-99062-0 BL: X.950/27460 An Olympic mystery novel. Goldman, William 19 Marathon man. London: Macmillan, 1975. 252p Originally published: New York: DelacortePress, 1974 ISBN: 0-333-18073-9 BL: Nov.22792 Thriller with some athleticsreferences, in which the hero, a jogger, isinspired by Paavo Nurmi and Abebe Bikila. Grant, David (pseudonym of DavidCraig OwenThomas) 20 Moscow 5000. London: Michael Jose1p9h7,9. 447p ISBN: 0-7181-1780-8 BL: Nov.24493 Graves, Richard 21 The spiritual Quixote, or. The summer's ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose: a comic romance, in three volumes. London: Dodsley, 1773. 3 vols. Published anonymously BL: 12614.eee.20 Includes a scene where a preacher makes a fool of himself at the Cotswold Games. Haile, Terence 22 The sports stars in danger. Richmond: Stanley Baker, 1952. 96p BL: 012642.n.222 A crime novel that combines the kidnapping and murder of sportsmen, includaitnhgletes. [ 158 ]