A fun, fact-packed look at the world of rugby

Be a Rugby Expert takes a light-hearted look at rugby that features all the facts and stats, lists and essential data that readers of all ages love, as well as an overview of how to play the game. Great players, memorable matches and the best quotes all also feature to bring the great game to life. The book concludes with a big quiz so that young readers can challenge each other to see who is the real rugby expert!

Great reading for rugby fans aged 8 and up.

Armed with a MacBook Air and the miracle of the Internet, Paul lives and writes at a secret location somewhere on the west coast of Europe. You can be pretty sure that keeping his feet warm under the writing table is his one-eyed surf dog, Daisy.

As well as being a writer, Paul is a wanderer. He has lived in various countries - always in the high mountains, or somewhere near a good surfing beach. "Wherever I am, though, and whatever else I'm doing," he says, "I follow Ray Bradbury's advice: 'Write, every single day.'" Paul writes about many subjects, but his books are mostly to do with sports, the world's different peoples, places, and animals, or the weird and wonderful.

• 1: What is rugby?
• 2: Forwards
• 3: Backs
• 4: The greatest try ever scored
• 5: Big hit – the art of tackling
• 6: Lineouts and scrums
• 7: Big competitions
• 8: The Rugby World Cup
• 9: 2015 – the World Cup comes to England
• 10: The world's top players
• 11: Great teams
• 12: Rugby oddities
• 13: Commentator-speak deciphered
• 14: Test yourself
• 15: Getting into rugby
• 16: Finding out more
• 17: Index