Cooper, Mick (2000) Who's Who Portsmouth FC. The career and personal details of very player, over 1000, to have appeared in the first team since 1899, with biographies and over 100 photos. Also covered are managers, officials and over 2000 contracted players who never made it to the first team. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Culpepper, Chuck (2007) Up Pompey. U.S. Sports Journalist rediscovers his childhood passion for sport following Pompey for a season. Culpepper makes effective use of his ignorance about 'soccer' to dig out some great observations about the differences between sport and sports reporting in the US and UK. For Pompey fans its a real treat to read an outsider's analysis of the 'supporting Pompey' experience. Funny, thoughtful and highly recommended. There's a fascinating interview with Culpepper about the book at EPL Talk. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Farmery, Colin (1999) Portsmouth from Tindall to Ball. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Farmery, Colin (2001) Portsmouth: Champions of England - 1948-49 & 1949-50. Long awaited history of Pompey's championship winning sides of the immediate post war years. Order from Amazon.co.uk.
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Farmery, Colin (2004) Seventeen Miles from Paradise: Saints vs Pompey - Passion, Pride and Prejudice. A history of the derby matches. Order from Amazon.co.uk.

Farmery, Colin (2005) Portsmouth: the Modern Era - a Complete Record. Order from Amazon.co.uk.

Hayes, Dean (1997) Portsmouth F.C: An A-Z. Hundreds of player biographies. Ideal for bringing back memories of long forgotten heroes - like Derek Showers and Colin Blant? Order from Amazon.co.uk

Holledge, Richard (2003) Life & Chimes: A Unique Account of Pompey's Promotion Year. A compendium of the 'Life and Chimes' column which appeared in The Times throughout the magnificent 2002-3 championship season. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Holmes, R (2006) The Portsmouth FC Miscellany. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Holmes, R and Plummer, A (2005) Pompey by Plum. 100 of Plum's cartoons which appeared in the Football Mail from the glory days of the 40s into the early 70s. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Neasom, Mike, Cooper, Mick & Robinson, Doug (1997) Pompey: The History of Portsmouth Football Club. The definitive history, sadly no longer available in the UK. Order from Amazon.com (based in USA)

Neasom, Mike (1987) Pompey Season 1985-1986. Order from Amazon.com (based in USA)

Official Portsmouth FC Annual 2008 (2007) Order from Amazon.co.uk

Official Portsmouth FC Calendar 2007 (2006) Order from Amazon.co.uk

Owen, Richard (2003) 100 Greats: Portsmouth FC. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Owen, Richard (2003) Portsmouth FC 2002/03: Pompey's Rise to the Premiership. The definitive account of the 2002/3 campaign from the Club's historian. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Payne, John & Charles, Roy (2005) The Park. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Pennant, Cass & Sylvester, Rob. (2004) Rolling with the 657 Crew. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Portsmouth 1998/9 Soccer Yearbook. (1998) Order from Amazon.co.uk

Smith, K.C. (1999) Glory Gunners: The History of Royal Artillery (Portsmouth) FC. The previously untold story of Portsmouth's first football team, predecessors of the mighty PFC. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Symes, P. (2003) Sleeping Giant Awakes: The Story of Portsmouth's Rise to the Premiership. Features 200 colour photographs. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Symes, P. (2004) Stay Up Pompey!: The Story of Portsmouth's First Season in the Premiership. Lavishly illustrated account of Pompey's successful, if at times nailbiting, return to the big time. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Symes, P. (2006) Portsmouth's Cult Heroes: Pompey's 20 Greatest Icons. Featuring 'Gentleman' Jimmy Dickinson, Billy 'Farmer' Haines, Paul Walsh, Guy Whittingham, Duggie 'Thunderboots' Reid, David Kemp, Jimmy Scoular, Noel Blake, Mick Tait, Linvoy Primus and Alan Biley amongst others. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Westwood, J (2006) The True Pompey Fan's Miscellany. Football's best known bell-ringer and antique bookseller makes his contribution to the nation's literary canon. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Wood, H & Bell, P (2006) Portsmouth Official Yearbook 2006/7. Pretty good for an official publication - packed with all the stats you'll ever need to convince yourself that the Great Escape did really happen. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Ball, Alan (2005) Playing Extra Time. Good coverage of Ballie's Pompey years and moving account of his wife's recent death. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Channon, Mick (2005) Mick Channon: The Authorised Biography. His short spell at Fratton Park was the highlight of an otherwise undistinguished career. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Claridge, Steve (2000) Tales from the Boot Camps. Fully revised and updated edition of the acclaimed autobiography. A brand new chapter provides fascinating insights into life at Pompey under the management of Alan Ball and then Tony Pulis. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Gregory, John (with Swain, M.) (2001) John Gregory. Probably the worst Pompey manager ever blames it all on the players. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Jeffs, Peter (1998) Pompey's Gentleman Jim. Meticulously researched and an essential item for all Pompey fans, this book provides the definitive biography of the Club's greatest ever player and servant, Jimmy Dickinson. Order now from Amazon.co.uk.
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Jordan, Joe (2005) Behind the Dream: The Story of a Scottish Footballer. Order from Amazon.co.uk.

Knight, Alan with Farmery, Colin & Jeffs, Peter. (2003) Legend: The Alan Knight Story. A great servant to the club for over two decades has his story told in this compelling autobography. Order now from Amazon.co.uk. Also available direct from Legendary Publishing

Merson, P. & Ridley, I. (2000) Hero and Villain. Find out what Paul was up to before he hit the big time with Pompey. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Payne, John (2004) The Pompey Boys. Order from Amazon.co.uk.

Payne, John (2004) 6.57: The Story of Pompey's Hooligan Crew. Order from Amazon.co.uk.

Primus, Linvoy (with Jeffs, Peter) (2007) Linvoy Primus Transformed. Order from Amazon.co.uk.

Quinn, Mick (with Harvey, O) (2004) Who Ate All the Pies? - The Life and Times of Mick Quinn. Order from Amazon.co.uk.

Sheringham, Teddy (1999) Teddy: My Autobiography. Order from Amazon.co.uk.

Smith, K.C. (2004) Sherlock Holmes Was a Pompey Keeper. Order from Amazon.co.uk

St John, Ian (1996) Soccer Skills With Ian St John. In this video The Saint shows off the coaching techniques which brought unparalleled success to Fratton Park in the late seventies. Order from Amazon.co.uk

St John, Ian (2005) The Saint: My Autobiography. Autobiography of the man with the world's most unfortunate nickname. Its all pretty tedious stuff (football championship medals, european football, Bill Shankley team talks..) until ISJ forsakes the grime of Merseyside and Motherwell and makes his way to Frogmore Road. It all goes wrong very quickly though - with a great managerial career nipped in the bud by the duplicitousness of John Deacon - apparently. Interesting, if self-justificatory, chapter on the Saint's time at Fratton. Nice words for David Kemp and Ken Foggo, not so complimentary about Paul Went, Eoin Hand and Brian Lewis. Order from Amazon.co.uk

OTHER POMPEY-RELATED STUFF
Destination Portsmouth The award-winning, fast moving taxi game that will take you on a journey through the streets of Pompey in your very own cab. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Hulme, Chris (1999) Manslaughter United. In this bestselling book Hulme describes one season in the life of a football team made up of convicted murderers serving at Kingston Prison, Portsmouth, and competing in the Portsmouth North End league. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Kerr, Martin (2001) An Englishman Abroad. Pompey fan Martin Kerr recounts his experiences at the hands of French police when following England at France '98. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Meades, Joanathan (2003) Pompey. One reviewer on Amazon.com has described the book as follows: 'Meades' passions for architecture, atheism, gastronomy, the unmentionable underbelly of English society and kinky sex suffuse this marvellously gamey epic tale of some very nasty people in an equally nasty fictionalised Portsmouth (although the action moves all over an equally degraded world).' Make of that what you will!. Order from Amazon.co.uk

Skyview Portsmouth Poster (2002) Spot Fratton Park on this superb image of Portsea Island. Derived from digital aerial photography the poster (which measures 841mm x 594mm or 33" x 23") is printed in full colour on sturdy 150gsm paper and is laminated for further protection. Order from Amazon.co.uk