Collection: World Cup Reading Room 2026

Welcome to the World Cup Reading Room. 

For five and a half weeks this winter, the world plays football - and we'll also be reading it!

From the day the Socceroos squad is announced on 1 June to the Final on 20 July (local time), the World Cup Reading Room is open. 

We'll have a new Featured Collection every week at a special World Cup discounted price of 26% for 2026, the best of our football list, and offers we only roll out when the whole world is watching. Australians who conquered the world, the politics of the game, the women who changed it, the characters you'll never forget, both fiction and nonfiction. 

We'll have a different shelf each week, all of it from Australia's leading independent publisher of football books.

Pull up a chair. And have a really good book on-hand between matches. 

Oh! And don't forget to enter our fantastic World Cup Reading Room promotion where you could win lunch with journalist, author and broadcaster, Philippe Auclair. Enter here.