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DARTS WITH THE
LID OFF by Alan and
Geoffrey D’Egville
 Has darts
changed all that much in the past 45 years? Perhaps not says MAT COWARD, who
recently made a surprising discovery…
Darts
has swept the country from end to end, from top to bottom, side to side and even
diagonally … the man who cannot speak the lingo of the dart is nowadays an
outcast. The girls can’t stand him and the men never do, not even half a pint.
You may be head man in your business, but in the bars of England the only thing
that counts is whether you can score a double quickly.
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GOLDEN GIRL – TRINA GULLIVER’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
This
week is an exciting time for darts publishing. For the first time ever a female
darts champion publishes her life story. Yes, the eagerly awaited autobiography
by multi-world champion Trina Gulliver titled Golden Girl – The Autobiography
of the Greatest Ever Ladies Darts Player is published on 7th
January by John Blake Publishing of London. As I have helped Trina to write her
unique book, it would be unfair for me to say any more. Therefore, here are some
reviews from other darts aficionados that I am sure will be of interest.
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 Although
the title sounds like an Agatha Christie novel, this is not a murder mystery but
a book describing Justin Irwin’s ‘journey into the heart of dartness’.
Many darts
fans will remember Justin’s quest which began in a blaze of national publicity
in early 2005 when he resigned from a highly paid director’s post at the charity
ChildLine to pursue a dream. He announced that he was giving it all up in order
to focus on becoming a world darts champion within one year.
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THE SUN DARTS QUIZ BOOK -
Compiled by Chris Bradshaw
Now here’s a book for the real darts connoisseur – especially for
those who think they know everything there is to know about the sport.
The compiler, Chris Bradshaw, must have plundered all manner of
books, magazines and websites to produce this mini-masterpiece and took a great
deal of care to cover every element of the game from its history to the latest
tournament results – although it tends to major on tournaments and
personalities. Questions range from the dead simple to ‘Mastermind’ level.
Nevertheless, with such a huge number of questions - and being
the first book of its kind - it will inevitably have darts ‘experts’ descending
on it like vultures, to pick over every question trying to spot the error. With
over 200 pages and 2,000 questions there has to be one or two.
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Bellies
and Bullseyes
Bellies and Bullseyes is
not, of course, Sid Waddell’s first foray into darts authorship, not by a long
chalk. Sid co-wrote The Indoor League with John Meade in 1975 and contributed to
and compiled two volumes of The BBC Book of World Darts (1979 and 1983), the
latter being edited by Darts World’s Tony Wood. Sid ghosted both Jocky Wilson’s
autobiography Jocky – Jocky Wilson’s Own Story (1983) and Phil Taylor’s The
Power – My Autobiography (2003) and delighted us with his ribald humour in
Bedside Darts (1985). Sid has written copiously on darts for over 30 years in
books, programme notes and newspaper articles. His new book is a celebration of
those years in which Sid helped in no small measure to make darts on TV what it
is today.
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Make Mine A Double
In the August issue of
Darts World, I praised the efforts of Eddie Austin in his mission to record the
entire history of the Shropshire County team. Then, out of the blue, came Dave
Taylor’s impressive work Make Mine A Double – The Story of Hull Darts.
This is exactly what I
have been looking for.
A former Humberside ‘A’
player, Dave spent over two years ploughing through back issues of local
newspapers at the Hull Central Library, in search of information about darts in
the city. Ably assisted by Malcolm Richardson, a local sports reporter and darts
enthusiast (Malcolm also provides the Foreword to the book), Dave has produced a
fine piece of historical research about darts in Hull since the 1950s.
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OLD STONEFACE’ REVEALS ALL IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Three times World Professional
Darts Champion, John Lowe, has recently completed the task of writing his
first major work of autobiography.
Although in the pipeline for a
long time, it was not until the summer of 2004 that John was able to
schedule the time to write this, his fourth book. John says, “The first two
books were basically ‘how to play’ and consisted of passing on my skills and
knowledge to my readers. The third book ‘The John Lowe Story – Inside Pro
Darts with the World Champion’ was my first stab at autobiography and took
my story up to 1987.”
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 Bobby
Dazzler – My Story, Bobby George
Anyone reading Bobby
Dazzler – My Story, Bobby George’s recently published biography, and expecting
it to reflect the style of his That’s the Way to Do It! column in Darts World
magazine will be disappointed. For his first major published work, Bobby, with
the help of journalist Lance Hardy, adopts a more serious, yet relaxed writing
style, demonstrating Bobby’s wish to make it, as he told me recently, “More than
just a book about darts.”
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 David
Nobbs - Cupid's Darts
The hilarious new novel
from the creator of Reginald Perrin begins with a not-so-brief encounter on a
train, between 58-year-old philosophy lecturer Alan, and Ange a twenty-something
darts groupie. Alan learns to live for the moment, and Ange to appreciate the
finer things in life.
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| Hawaii 501 Life as a Darts
Pro Wayne Mardle's new book
is on the shelves
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 Phil
Taylor - The Power
It is rare to be in the
position of reviewing three dart books at the same point in time and bringing
news of a second printing of another but that’s where I find myself on a dull
day in May 2004
The Power - My
Autobiography Phil Taylor (with Sid Waddell)
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 A
Bar Player’s Guide to Winning Darts
A Bar Player’s Guide to
Winning Darts
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 Planet
Darts
A look at Niall
Edworthy's new book, aptly titled Planet Darts.......
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 In
and Out
'In and Out' - by Matt
Coward
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The Unicorn Dart Year
Book 1978
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 To the Point
GROUNDBREAKING VIDEO -
(Letter which appeared in Darts World December 2002)
Dan William Peek's
- To The Point – The Story Of Darts In America.
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DVD's - Ecric Bristow'
Embassy Darts & Premier League Darts 2006
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THE OFFICIAL REVIEW OF
THE HOLSTEN PREMIER LEAGUE DARTS 2006 and ERIC BRISTOW’S FIRST EMBASSY
VICTORY 1980
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The Story of Darts DVD &
Video
'The 'Story of Darts'
Video - an impartial review by 'The Journal' December 2002
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The Circumluminator - Shadow Free Dartboard
Lighting
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THE
CIRCUMLUMINATOR DARTBOARD ILLUMINATION BREAKTHROUGH
The Circumluminator: Uniform, shadow-free,
glare-free light
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Madhouse Darts Scoring System
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