For 125 years the finest rugby players of Britain and Ireland have periodically left these shores to pit themselves against the very best the southern hemisphere can throw at them. These chosen few are the Lions. England's legendary scrum-half and World Cup winner Matt Dawson has been on three Lions tours - a huge achievement in itself, given that they tour only every four years - but he has also been a keen student of the history and heritage of the Lions. Matt Dawson's Lions Tales gives rugby fans a satisfying dose of wonderful Lions anecdotes, epic stories of triumph and despair, of camaraderie and controversy, and stirring examples of that special bond that only competing in the white heat of battle, halfway round the world, against the mighty All Blacks, Wallabies and Springboks, can engender. Lions Tales is peppered with insight and laugh-out-loud moments, dredged from the memory banks of Dawson's own time in the iconic red shirt, and also from his keen interest in the Lions' remarkable 125-year traditions.