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Great Australian Sporting Stories: 65 Insider Tales On and Off the Field, (2019) Ian Heads and Norm Tasker, 2019 Pan Macmillan

The Great Grand Final Heist, 2018


The History of Souths, 1908-1985 (1985).  The Book Printer.

200 Years of Australian Sport: a Glorious Obsession  With G. Lester. (1988).   Lester-Townsend. Australia

Played Strong Done Fine: the Jack Gibson Collection (1988) Ironbark Press. Australia

Backpage:  Australian Greatest Sporting Moments  (1989) Lester-Townsend Publishing. Australia.

Sterlo – the Story of a Champion – Peter Sterling (1989) Lester-Townsend. Australia.

Winning Starts on Monday: Yarns and Inspiration from the Jack Gibson Collection. (1989) Lester-Townsend Publishing.

Local Hero – the Wayne Pearce Story (1990) Ironbark. Australia.

True Blue: The Story of the NSW Rugby League (1992). Ironbark. Australia.

Quick Whit – The Mike Whitney Story (1993) In Ironbark by Pan Macmillan.

Balmain Benny: The Stormy League Career of Ben Elias (1993) Ironbark

Lawrence of Australia: Laurie Lawrence - Stories of Inspiration

When All is Said and Done – Jack Gibson (1994) Ironbark.

The Kangaroos: The Saga of Rugby League’s Great Tours (1994) Macmillan.

Straight Between The Posts: The Legendary Frank Hyde and His Stories  (1995) Ironbark.

Taylor Made: A Year in the Life of Australia’s Cricket Captain Mark Taylor (1995). Macmillan.

Hard Man: a Life in Football. Noel ‘Ned’ Kelly (1996) Ironbark/ Pan Macmillan.

Arko: my game. Ken Arthurson (1997) Ironbark.

Mark Taylor: A Captain’s Year. (1997). Macmillan.

Reilly: a Life in Rugby League. Malcolm Reilly (1998).   Ironbark.

Mark Taylor: Time to Declare. An Autobiography. (1999). Macmillan

Gang-gangs at one o’clock….and other flights of fancy. A personal journey through rugby league.  Second Annual Tom Brock Lecture. UNSW, 30th November (1999.) in Tales from Coathanger City. Ten years of Tom Brock Lecturers. Pages 45-60. Ed: Richard Cashman UTS Sydney

Nothing Great is Easy: the Des Renford story. Revised 2000. Macmillan.

South Sydney: the Pride of the League. (2000).   Lothian.

 Ian Thorpe: The Journey. (2000) Macmillan.

The Juniors. The Best for the Best. (2000). Playright Publishing.

The Outsider: Brian Mayfield-Smith. (2000) Macmillan.

Winning Attitudes. Editor Ian Heads & Geoff Armstrong. Australian Olympic Committee. (2000).  Hardie Grant.


Andrew Ettingshausen. Macmillan (2000)

Saints: the Legend Lives On: History of the St. George Rugby League Football Club.  Incorporating The March of The Dragons. (2001) Playright Publishing.

 My Story: Louise Sauvage. (2002) Harper Sports.

Never Say Die. The Fight to Save The Rabbitohs. George Piggins as told to Ian Heads. (2002) Macmillan.

With Spirit & Courage: the Extraordinary Life of Paul Featherstone. (2002). Macmillan.

Nova My Story. The Autobiography of Nova Peris (2003) ABC Books.

Talbot - Nothing but the best. Don Talbot with Kevin Berry (2003) Lothian Books

Jack Gibson The Last Word. Jack Gibson (2003) ABC Books

Big Artie: the autobiography.   Arthur Beetson (2004) ABC Books

Matthew Burke: a rugby life. (2005) with Matthew Burke Pan Macmillan, Australia 

Warhorse: Life, Football and Other Battles. (2006) Shane Webcke. Pan Macmillan, Australia

The Golden Girl: Tributes in words and pictures to the legendary Betty Cuthbert. (2006) Editor Rohan Clark. Contributor Ian Heads. Random House. Australia.

From Where The Sun Rises – 100 years of the Sydney Roosters. (2007) With G. Armstrong and D. Middleton Playright Publishing Pty Ltd. Caringbah. Australia.

A Centenary of Rugby League 1908 – 2008.A Definitive Story of the Game in Australia,  (2008) With G. Armstrong and D. Middleton Pan Macmillan Australia 

Hard Road: Thoughts on a tough game.(2009) Shane Webcke. Pan Macmillan Australia

The Wide World of Ken Sutcliffe (2009) Allen & Unwin. Australia.

And The Crowd Went Wild. Sporting Days that That Thrilled a Nation. (2010) With G. Lester. Playright Publishing Pty. Ltd.

Yannergee. Readers Digest, January 2011, pages 110-115.

The Fittler Files: My season on the sidelines. (2011) Brad Fittler. Harper-Sport. Harper Collins publishers Australia.

The Beach Club - 100 Years at Balmoral 1914-2014. (2014) Ian Heads. Playright Publishing Pty Ltd

The Night the Music Died – How a Bunch of Bushies forged Rugby League’s Last Great Fairytale  (2014): Stoke Hill Press

Richie - The Man Behind the Legend. With Norman Tasker. 
(2015) Stoke Hill Press

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