Book Week has been and gone for many families around Australia in the past week, and with the costumes being put away for another year, it is about time for us to celebrate a week late with out Alternative Book Week.
As you could imagine, we will selct our favourite books for Alternative Book Week, and equally predictable will be that none of them will be winning awards, or be known by anyone who reads this website. Or maybe some people out there do have taste.
Even if you don’t agree with our Alternative Book Week selections, maybe take a leaf from the kids and use this week to take a book on public transport, and dump the phone for a few days.
With our Celebrate Alternative Book Week it could be any book.
Our Alternative Book Week Short List
Grand Prix 1986 – Season Review by Nigel Roebuck
Written by the best F1 writer in the game, on one of the best F1 seasons ever, won by by our favourite F1 driver. Ticks a lot of sports nerd boxes.
Grand Prix Circuits: History and Course Map for Every Formula One Circuit
Need to know about every Formula One track used since the start of the Championship in 1950? You sure do, and this book provides the right amount of information combined with a nice double page of each track map. Set yourself a goal of learning 5 tracks a day, and soon you will be in F1 anorak territory. Population us and you.
Merv Hughes’ Best Sporting Insults: A Collection of Killer Lines from Our Favourite Aussie Sports
Who doesn’t like a good sledge, and this book provides the finest of them, and with Merv Hughes involved in the project, how could it go wrong. Why not use a few in your social sporting endeavours.
1000 Football Clubs: Teams, Stadiums, and Legends of the Beautiful Game
Why not impress friends and colleagues with your new found knowledge of Football teams. With this book you’ll be able to tell a Gremio from a Grimsby and which Stadium of Light is in which country. All the information you need and way too much more is waiting for your poo-rusal.
Dirty Northern Bstrds!” And Other Tales From The Terraces: The Story of Britain’s Football Chants
What’s better than knowing about Football Clubs, maybe some of the legendary and quick witted chants that get sung and make attending a Football game such an experience. Some of them are pretty nasty too, but a good chuckle awaits with this book.
Warwick Capper: Fool Forward
Although may technically fall outside the short and punchy guidelines, it was co-written by Warwick himself, so you wouldn’t think it would be too hard to read.
London A to Z
Ever wondered where stuff is in London, or if you have lived there a trip down memory lane to all the Wetherspoons you visited in your time there. There’s also the challenge to find all Football teams home grounds in London without looking up the index. Maybe you just want to study a page a day in your throne time.
The Darwin Awards
Well known by now, but if you indulged it is a tremendous collection of stories of people doing very stupid things. This is just the first in the collection, so you may end up reading the whole series if or when you get hooked.
Fox Tossing: And Other Forgotten and Dangerous Sports, Pastimes, and Games
A window into how people killed time before Facebook, Smart Phones and Altered Beast.
HOW I CONQUERED YOUR PLANET by John Swartwelder
Are you a fan of The Simpsons back when it was good? Well from the writer of 59 of those golden episodes comes a range of short novels with all the humour you’d hope for from the Golden Mirkin era of Simpsons. With only a couple of 100 pages and short chapters, it is the perfectly sized fiction book for your sit and read. There’s plenty to choose from, we’ve selected the best here.
Finally, let’s finish on a classy note…..
The Book of Poo: A Spotter’s Guide
It is what it says it is, and for some reason this has been assembled for the number two fans out there.
