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Previous winners of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award
The absolute pinnacle in hi-octane, genre-defining, blisteringly revealing sports writing, is celebrated by the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award, and here are the best of the best - the award's previous winners.
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Britain's greatest ever cyclist is given the literary treatment she so richly deserves in Wilson's rigorously researched biography of the complex and enigmatic Beryl Burton.
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The Jamaican commentator and former cricketer expands on the game-changing distillation of the Black Lives Matter movement that he delivered live on air, in this powerful, eloquent work which combines Holding’s own testimony about racial abuse with thoughtful interviews from across the world of sport.
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Jaw-droppingly candid and completely immersive, Rodchenkov’s revelations from a career systematically cheating global athletics institutions make for both enlightening and enraging reading.
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One expert chronicler of the game pays tribute to another, as award-winning cricket scribe Duncan Hamilton tells the story of Neville Cardus, the inter-war commentator who made the sport sing.
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The poignant, life-affirming story of a determined boy, a visionary coach, and how the dream of a record-breaking Channel swim became reality
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The Lost Soul of Eamonn Magee is a uniquely intimate telling of a barely believable life story. It is a compelling story filled with heartache and laughter, violence and love, unthinkable lows and fleeting, glorious highs. Eamonn's is a story for which the term `brutally honest' might have been coined.
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Tom Simpson is British cycling's greatest icon. Fifty years after he conquered the continental sporting scene, he still captivates people around the world. After his death on Mont Ventoux during the 1967 Tour de France, amphetamines and alcohol were found in his system, a fact which often dwarfs his pioneering achievements. This man of contradictions was both people's champion and pariah.
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A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer
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What does it mean when football becomes so central to our private and political lives? Has it enriched us or impoverished us? In this book, the author argues that no social phenomenon tracks the momentous economic, social and political changes of the post - Thatcherite era in a more illuminating manner than football, and more.
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*Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014*‘The Pies beat the Saints and the city of Melbourne was still cloaked in black and white crepe paper when the rumour of a pack rape by celebrating footballers began to surface.
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Paperback edition of a brilliantly told story of the shocking doping gang who scandalised the racing world in the 1960s.
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WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDOn a fateful night in 2009, Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle met for dinner in Boulder, Colorado.
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On 10 November 2009 German national goalkeeper, Robert Enke, stepped in front of a passing train. He was thirty two years old. Viewed from outside, Enke had it all. Here was a professional goalkeeper who had played for a string of Europe's top clubs including Jose Mourinho's Benfica and Louis Van Gaal's Barcelona. This title presents his story.
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A scorching and deeply personal autobiography, lifting the lid on the life and character of one of English rugby's most successful ever players.
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The first biography of England's finest and most controversial fast bowler.
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A true-life sporting memoir of one of the best batsman in the game who stunned the cricket world when he prematurely ended his own England career. Trescothick’s brave and soul-baring account of his mental frailties opens the way to a better understanding of the unique pressures experienced by modern-day professional sportsmen.
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‘One day you’ll write a book about this club. Or, more to the point, about me. So you may as well know what I’m thinking and save it up for later when it won’t do any harm to anyone.’
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WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDHe was the first black heavyweight champion in history (1908-15) and the most celebrated - and most reviled - African American of his age.
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Shows how the author faces his growing alienation from the game he was born into, as he revisits key periods in his father's career to build up a picture of his football life and through him a whole era. This book recaptures a lost world and the way it changed, blending the personal and the historical into a soccer story.
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* WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2004* Controversial and revelatory biography of the South African-born cricketer who played for England and was banned from touring his native country
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With a new, updated chapter for this latest edition, renowned investigative journalist, Tom Bower, takes on the football giants, exposing the money, politics and the vicious battles behind the beautiful game.
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The classic dual biography of Jesse Owens and Joe Louis, winner of the 2002 William Hill Sports Book of the Year
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Both a rip-roaring tale of equestrian achievement and an evocative account of the Great Depression, Hillenbrand’s compelling narrative pays tribute to a crooked-legged horse and the three individuals who transformed him into a champion. Gripping, uplifting and cinematic, Seabiscuit is a rich and rewarding sporting read.
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Detailing Lance Armstrong’s battle with life-threatening testicular cancer and his return to professional cycling, it became a huge bestseller, appealing to fans of cycling as well as cancer survivors inspired by his full and dramatic recovery.
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Acclaimed as a magisterial, classic work, A Social History of English Cricket is an encyclopaedic survey of the game, from its humble origins all the way to modern floodlit finishes.
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A brilliant and captivating insight into the bizarre nature of contemporary Japan.
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Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year
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The classic account of the dark world of boxing that won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize
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Simon Kuper's modern classic - 'If you like football, read it. If you don't like football, read it'. The Times
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Hornby’s seminal meditation on what it means to live your life through football pioneered the intellectualisation of the sport as well as delivering an eloquent, frequently painfully funny memoir. Charting the highs and lows of supporting the Gunners, Fever Pitch is a classic of modern sports writing.
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One of the most recognisable, respected and inspirational men on earth, Muhammad Ali is the world's most famous boxing hero. Ali brought unprecedented speed and grace to the sport, and his charm and wit changed forever what the world expects of a champion athlete. This is the ultimate biography to match Ali's lifetime of extraordinary achievements.
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Presents the life story of a professional athlete. This book is an account that breaks the law of silence surrounding the issue of drugs in sport. It is suitable for anyone who is interested in sports.
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