How do you go from ordinary to exceptional? This bestselling coaching classic will show you how.

Ben Hunt-Davis shares the inspiring story of how he and the British men’s rowing Eight went from never winning an international race to becoming the best in the world just two years later. Performance Coach Harriet Beveridge then highlights the wealth of transferable strategies we can use to pursue our own ‘gold medals’ for ourselves, our workplaces and beyond.

Ben’s firsthand account transports readers into the boat with him: the intensity of training, the emotional rollercoaster of setbacks, the thrill of success. Harriet distils the lessons from each gripping story into easy-to-implement strategies to apply to your everyday: from how to keep yourself motivated day-in-day out to how to bounce back from failure; from how to build resilient teams to cultivating a learning mindset.

This 15^th anniversary edition of Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? Includes new examples of people from all walks of life applying these Olympic-winning strategies to their contexts to make their own boats go faster. Whether you’re a business leader wanting better results, an individual with a dream, or a coach guiding your team to unlocking their potential, this book is jammed-pack with tried and tested methods to help you achieve your own gold medals.

The book is a winning mix of gripping narrative and practical performance-raising tips.

The Oxbridge Series continues from the author of TikTok sensation Oar Than Friends

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He’s on the rowing team. She’s in the drama club. When their two worlds collide, sparks ignite…

All Charlie Masterson wants is to graduate Oxford, and win the boat race, obviously.

But then Evie Waters waltzes into his philosophy class. And he needs to come up with a plan to make sure she doesn’t break his heart, again.

Violet Brooks has one thing on her mind; secure a role in Oxford’s summer production of Twelfth Night.

But then her brother’s best friend, Charlie, asks her to be his fake girlfriend, and she has the chance to take on the role she’s always dreamed of.

As Charlie and Violet spend more time together, it quickly becomes hard to tell where the acting ends and real life begins, especially when Charlie starts looking at Violet the way she’s always looked at him.

Because all’s fair in love and war, right?

Tropes:

• Friends to lovers
• Fake relationship
• Brother’s best friend
• Opposites attract

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PRAISE FOR LULU MOORE AND OXBRIDGE SERIES

‘I could not put this book down’ Goodreads Reviewer

‘A breathtakingly unique take on the college rivals and sports romance tropes’ Goodreads Reviewer

‘5+ stars!’ Goodreads Reviewer

‘This book gives it all, and I’m not ashamed to say, I laughed, I cried, and I may have bit through my lip because of the tension in the end’ Goodreads Reviewer

‘It’s a 5-star read – if I could give more I would’ Goodreads Reviewer

She’s rowing for Cambridge. He’s rowing for Oxford. But they just can’t keep one another at oar’s length . . .

Arthur Osbourne-Cloud has his future mapped out for him – graduate Oxford and follow his dreadful father into politics. Except Arthur wants anything but that. He’d rather spend his days rowing for gold at the Olympics,.

And this year he has the Boat Race to win.

Kate Astley also has her future mapped out. Fly half-way across the world, and win a scholarship at Cambridge University to study medicine. Oh, and crew for the legendary Boat Race. Seems simple enough.

But then she meets Arthur.

For Arthur, this feisty American challenges everything he’s been taught to believe, while Kate battles between what she’s expected to do, and what she wants to do.

The bitter rivalry between their universities ought to destroy them. Or will it just be a matter of time before they surrender to the sizzling chemistry between them?

But In The Boat Race, there can only be one winner. Who will sink and who will swim?

PRAISE FOR OAR THAN FRIENDS:

‘I could not put this book down‘ Goodreads Reviewer

‘A breathtakingly unique take on the college rivals and sports romance tropes’ Goodreads Reviewer

‘5+ stars!’ Goodreads Reviewer

‘This book gives it all, and I’m not ashamed to say, I laughed, I cried, and I may have bit through my lip because of the tension in the end’ Goodreads Reviewer

‘It’s a 5-star read – if I could give more I would’ Goodreads Reviewer

Grenfell’s astounding sporting achievements, from climbing mountains to swimming the basin of the Niagara Falls twice, from rowing the English Channel and winning the Amateur Punting Championship for three years consecutively, to representing Great Britain in fencing, produced his deep-rooted belief in the importance of sport. It wasn’t surprising therefore that he became the driving force behind the 1908 London Olympic Games, an enormous success despite being staged with only two years’ notice.

A surprisingly modern public figure, Grenfell was elected as an MP before going on to hold a prodigious array of local, national and international roles: mayor of Maidenhead, leading the London Chamber of Commerce, promoting aviation, establishing modern policing, and serving as chairman of the Thames Conservancy. Although Grenfell’s public life was successful, his family was struck by tragedy, aged six he lost his father and he and his wife Ettie suffered the loss of two sons in the First World War and their third in a motor accident. Despite this, their home, Taplow Court, was a place for entertaining and had been a focal point for the Souls, including notable politicians such as A. J. Balfour and the young Winston Churchill, as well as writers like H. G. Wells and Henry James.

In Titan of the Thames, Nairne and Williams disentangle the myths surrounding this fascinating man who spans the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and have pieced together a compelling biography of a figure whose story should have been told many years ago.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS

Jurgen Grobler’s Olympic coaching career is one of legend, yet the man himself has remained resolutely out of the spotlight. Over the last twenty years he has masterminded British Rowing’s incomparable success. And when the difference between gold and silver can mean mere fractions of a second, Jurgen Grobler has consistently delivered Olympic gold through various boat classes and with an ever-changing group of athletes.

Arguably the greatest coach in British sporting history, Grobler’s unparalleled record outstrips many much better known records and stories; building champions such as Sir Steve Redgrave, Sir Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell to name but few.

This authoritative account of Grobler’s career straddles the Iron Curtain, beginning in the German Democratic Republic, where systemic state-funded doping was an open secret, before crossing to Britain following the fall of the Berlin Wall. And whilst culture and sport have shifted dramatically over the last half century, Grobler’s pursuit of greatness has never faltered.

Written by Olympic medallist, Hugh Matheson, and rowing historian, Christopher Dodd, More Power is the unmissable story of one man’s quest for glory, and sets out to unlock the secrets of Jurgen Grobler: the finest coach Olympic sport has ever seen.