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A Piano in the Pyrenees by Tony Hawks
Category: Fiction
'If you had to pick two things you wanted - if you had to - what would you pick?' I hesitated. This was a bigger question than usually got asked at these post-match debriefs. 'I suppose the honest answer would be,' I said, still accessing the last pieces of required data from a jumbled mind, 'meeting my ...Show more
A Piano in the Pyrenees by Tony Hawks
Category: Travel Literature
'If you had to pick two things you wanted - if you had to - what would you pick?' I hesitated. This was a bigger question than usually got asked at these post-match debriefs. 'I suppose the honest answer would be,' I said, still accessing the last pieces of required data from a jumbled mind, '- meet ...Show more
Once Upon a Time in the West...Country by Tony Hawks
Category: Biography
You can take the man out of the city, but is the countryside ready for him? Comedian and born and bred townie, Tony Hawks is not afraid of a challenge - or indeed a good bet. He's hitchhiked round Ireland with a fridge and taken on the Moldovan football team at tennis, one by one. Now the time has come ...Show more
One Hit Wonderland by Tony Hawks
Category: Travel
This is an account of an adventure that takes Tony Hawks right around the world in search for that elusive follow-up hit. From the studios of Nashville to the coffee bars of Amsterdam; from the plains of the Sudan to the wilds of Tasmania, Hawks will do anything to have a hit.
Playing The Moldovans At Tennis by Tony Hawks
Category: Fiction
As with his previous book "Round Ireland With a Fridge", this one is the result of a wager with comedian Arthur Smith. Hawks bets that he can find the Moldovan football team and beat each one of them at tennis. The loser must perform the Moldovan national anthem naked on Balham High Road.
Playing the Moldovans at Tennis by Tony Hawks
Category: Biography
It doesn't take much - 100 is usually sufficient - to persuade Tony Hawks to take off on notoriously bizarre and hilarious adventures in response to a bet. And so it is, a pointless argument with a friend concludes in a bet - that Tony can't beat all eleven members of the Moldovan soccer team at tennis ...Show more
Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks
Category: Travel
A new edition of the story of comedian Tony Hawks' hitch-hiking journey around the circumference of Ireland, whilst carrying a fridge. Hawks was bet one hundred pounds that he could not complete the journey in one calendar month and this book charts his adventures and the people he encountered along the ...Show more
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