Monday, December 21, 2009

Short List Unveiled For World’s Richest Sports Book Prize

The Short List for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2008 Award , account twenty thousand pounds and a chargeless £2000 bet to the winner, has been appear today:

John Carlin - Playing the Enemy:
Nelson Mandela And The Game That Made A Nation (Atlantic).

Janie Hampton - The Austerity Olympics:
When the Games Came To London in 1948 (Aurum).

Rowan Simons - Bamboo Goalposts:
One Man's Quest to Teach The People's Republic of China To Love Football (Macmillan).

Marcus Trescothick - Coming Back To Me:
The Autobiography (Harper).

Jeremy Whittle - Bad Blood:
The Secret Life Of The Tour de France (Yellow Jersey).

Jonathan Wilson - Inverting the Pyramid:
A History Of Football Tactics (Orion).

"This is a varied, active account featuring two football-related books; and one anniversary from cricket, cycling, rugby abutment and the Olympics. They are predominantly about sport, but blow on added alignment issues, such as ambidextrous with depression; doping in sport; and sport's adeptness to affiliate nations", said architect of the Award, William Hill Media Relations Director, Graham Sharpe.

The Award, now in its 20th year, will be presented at Waterstone's, Piccadilly London bookshop in the afternoon on Monday, 24th November.

"This account reflects the abundant ambit and assortment of avant-garde sports writing, and demonstrates that sports books are just as able of arrest life's big capacity as any added arcane genre" - Joe Browes, Waterstone's Sports Buyer.

Judging console for the 2008 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award :
Well accepted anchorperson and biographer John Inverdale; anchorperson and biographer Danny Kelly; the alone sports announcer to win the all-embracing Journalist of the Year Award, Hugh McIlvanney; writer, columnist and author, Alyson Rudd.

Chairman of the Judging Panel and co-founder of the Award is the architect of the Sportspages bookshop, John Gaustad.

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