UNION - The Heart of Rugby

 Featuring 150 original and evocative images with text by Paul Tomas founded on exclusive interviews with five of the games great players it is fair to say that this book is an epic international portrait of rugby through the lenses of the world's great rugby photographers.

I can see that many a copy of this impressive large hardback book will be going home with overseas visitors when the RWC is over.

Contributors:

NICK FARR-JONES was capped 63 times for Australia’s

Wallabies, including 36 as captain, and led Australia to its

first World Cup win in 1991.

MARTIN JOHNSON has 84 test caps for England, including

39 as captain. He led England to victory in the 2003 Rugby

World Cup, beating France in the final.

JOHN KIRWAN represented New Zealand’s All Blacks from

1984 until 1994 and gained 63 test caps. Kirwan scored

the winning try against France in the 1987 Rugby World

Cup final in Auckland, New Zealand.

PHILIPPE SELLA made 111 appearances for France between

1982 and 1995 and represented Les Bleus in three rugby

world cups: 1987, 1991 and 1995.

JOEL STRANSKY has 22 test caps for South Africa to his

credit, and scored the winning drop goal in the 1995

Rugby World Cup final against New Zealand.

PAUL THOMAS is an award-winning novelist, scriptwriter,

journalist and sports biographer based in Wellington,

New Zealand.