The latest in a series of guides to sporting literature (earlier volumes covered association football and rugby union), An Athletics Compendium provides an extensive and authoritative overview of the United Kingdom literature of track and field. Its compilers have a lifelong interest in and knowledge of all aspects of athletics. All significant publications on the theory and practice as well as the history of athletics are reviewed, and coverage includes the development of the modern Olympic movement.
Tom McNab is a former British Coach of the Year and Scottish Novelist of the Year. Peter Lovesey is the Diamond Dagger award-winning author of historical and contemporary mysteries. Andrew Huxtable is a leading member of the Association of Track and Field Statisticians.