From the leggy brunette who kicked half her team’s score one memorable day at Erica in Gippsland, to a freakish 115 metre goal at Warracknabeal and the hilarious tale of the disappearing raffle turkey late one Saturday night at Chinkapook, 'FOOTBALL LEGENDS OF THE BUSH' is a unique mix of fun, anecdotes and riveting interviews from Australia’s master sports storyteller KEN PIESSE.

Home-town heroes and local legends Australia-wide through to those who came and conquered in the Big Smoke are all featured in this highly-informative and entertaining ‘A to Z’ romp, available now.

The 10 top country footballers not to play League footy are named, along with favourites and personalities from every major league from Warrnambool to the Latrobe and from the rich WA wheatbelt to the hop-growing towns of central Tassie.

St Kilda’s celebrated one-and-only premiership coach Allan ‘Yabbie’ Jeans has contributed the foreword. There is also a encyclopaedic list of every star to emerge from the tiniest whistle-stop towns to the biggest satellite cities throughout Victoria and the Riverina.

YOU CAN ASK FOR YOUR COPY TO BE SIGNED, $30 INCLUDING POST.. just email Ken at kenpiesse@ozemail.com.au

ALSO AVAILABLE FROM AUGUST 1... GREAT AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL STORIES: ‘Who is the best player you’ve ever seen Laurie?’ asked the young football writer.

‘Son,’ he said, ‘I see him every morning in the mirror when I shave!’

Gotcha.

So began a 40 year love affair with football and its greatest personalities for Australia’s master sports storyteller, Ken Piesse.

In Great Australian Football Stories, his 64th book, Ken introduces the best of his stories from the golden greats like the ever-so-confident Laurie Nash and Jack Dyer through to modern day champions like Tony Lockett and Wayne Carey – stand-outs in an irresistible anthology of rarely published stories, letters, interviews and photographs from the who’s who of Australian football’s finest.

The AFL's chief commissioner Mike Fitzpatrick has provided a compelling foreword.

In it, he says: 'Ken seems to take on the role of an historical Guru Bob, hovering over all the articles ever written about Australian football which display the human history of our magnificent game , finding quaint and marvellous stories from small country competitions as well as the elite city Leagues.'

There are some wonderful letters from the Allan jeans collection included.

This book is the 'sister'; publication to Ken's very popular 'Great Australian Cricket Stories', now into a second printing

'Football Legends of the Bush': Local Heroes & Big Leaguers, Ken Piesse's 63rd book, is out now, $30

AND 'Great Australian Football Stories', 300-plus pages, hard-covers, $35... from kenpiesse@ozemail.com.au