Books… DARTS HISTORY – DARTS BOOKS – TONY BROWN AND THE ‘MAGNETISM OF DARTS’ 22 Oct 20223 Apr 2026 England and Kent’s Tony Brown passed away on 22nd September 2022. Although I never met Tony, I used to watch him on TV and I did eventually speak to him…
Books… DARTS HISTORY – DARTS PLAYERS’ BIOGRAPHIES 1 Nov 20193 Apr 2026 TELLING IT LIKE IT WAS I am always on the lookout for new books about darts especially biographies of famous (and not so famous) darts players and so it was…
Books DARTS HISTORY – DARTS BOOKS – 25 YEARS OF THE PDC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 18 Sep 20193 Apr 2026 When former British Darts Organisation (BDO) Director Colin Saunders published his two-volume, 860-page, masterwork the Embassy and Lakeside World Professional Darts Championships 1978-2012 back in February 2012, I had nothing…
Books… DARTS HISTORY – DARTS BOOKS – JOHN LOWE MBE – OLD STONEFACE 22 May 20193 Apr 2026 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…
Books… DARTS HISTORY – DARTS BOOK – DARTS WITH THE LID OFF by Alan And Geoffrey D’Egville 22 May 20193 Apr 2026 A retrospective review by Mat Coward (c. 1983) Has darts changed all that much in the past 45 years? Perhaps not says MAT COWARD, who recently made a surprising discovery……
Books… DARTS HISTORY – DARTS BOOKS – DARTS MISCELLANY by Matt Bozeat 22 May 20193 Apr 2026 UK-based darts journalist Matt Bozeat has found an original approach to darts writing by producing what I believe to be the first miscellany of darts of the modern era writes Patrick…
DVDs… DARTS HISTORY – RETRO DVD REVIEWS 22 May 20193 Apr 2026 Premiership 2006 & Eric Bristow's First Embassy Victory 1980 THE OFFICIAL REVIEW OF THE HOLSTEN PREMIER LEAGUE DARTS 2006 and ERIC BRISTOW’S FIRST EMBASSY VICTORY 1980 With so many ‘unofficial’…
Dartboards and darts… DARTS HISTORY – THE DIGLS DARTBOARD 22 May 201918 Mar 2026 A DARTBOARD WITH A DIFFERENCE Over the years there have been many attempts to bring our games and pastimes to the dartboard. This is not in the form of alternative…
Books… DARTS HISTORY – DARTS BOOKS – ERIC BRISTOW – THE CRAFTY COCKNEY – THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY 22 May 20193 Apr 2026 Over two decades on from his first venture into biography in 1985, so much has happened to Eric Bristow most of which not even the brash 26-year old back then…
Books… DARTS HISTORY – DARTS BOOKS – 101 EXCUSES FOR BAD DARTS 22 May 20193 Apr 2026 It’s like the return of an old friend. I first set eyes on a copy of Norma Brockwell’s book 101 Excuses for Bad Darts when it was originally published in Australia in…
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