British Sports Book Awards 2011
We have recently run a promotion around the British Sports Book Awards. The winning titles were announced on 9 May, and are in bold below.
British Sports Book Awards 2011 shortlist
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR
- Blood, Sweat and Treason by Henry Olonga (Vision Sports Publishing)
- No Place to Hide by Errol Christie (Aurum)
- Beware of the Dog by Brian Moore (Simon and Schuster)
- Please Don't Go by John Hartson (Mainstream Publishing)
- We Were Young and Carefree by Laurent Fignon (Yellow Jersey Press)
- My Liverpool Home by Kenny Dalglish (Hodder & Stoughton)
BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR
- Frankincense and More by Robin Oakley (Racing Post)
- A Last English Summer by Duncan Hamilton (Quercus)
- Trautmann's Journey by Catrine Clay (Yellow Jersey Press)
- Get In There! by Tom Lawton Junior and Barrie Williams (Vision Sports Publishing)
- The Grudge by Tom English (Yellow Jersey Press)
- Bill Nicholson by Brian Scovell (John Blake Publishing)
BEST FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR
- Football - Bloody Hell! by Patrick Barclay (Yellow Jersey Press)
- Promised Land by Anthony Clavane (Yellow Jersey Press)
- Trautmann's Journey by Catrine Clay (Yellow Jersey Press)
- Family by Michael Calvin (Integr8 Books)
- Bill Nicholson by Brian Scovell (John Blake Publishing)
- In Search of Alan Gilzean by James Morgan (BackPage Press)
- The Anatomy of England by Jonathan Wilson (Orion)
BEST RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEAR
- The Iron Duke by Peter Jackson (Mainstream Publishing)
- Blue Blood by Bernard Jackman (Irish Sports Publishing)
- The Grudge by Tom English (Yellow Jersey Press)
- After the Lemons by Kevin Coughlan, Peter Hall and Colin Gale (Montroy Media)
- The Rugby Coaching Manual by Keith Richardson (Self Published)
- Beware of the Dog by Brian Moore (Simon and Schuster)
BEST CRICKET BOOK OF THE YEAR
- Swinging Away by Beth Hise (Scala Publishers)
- A Last English Summer by Duncan Hamilton (Quercus)
- The Victory Tests by Mark Rowe (Sportsbooks)
- Slipless in Settle by Harry Pearson (Little Brown)
- Blood, Sweat and Treason by Henry Olonga (Vision Sports Publishing)
- The Cricketer's Progress by Eric Midwinter (Third Age Publishing)
BEST RACING BOOK OF THE YEAR
- Kauto Star and Denman by Jonathan Powell (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- The Story of Your Life by James Lambie (Matador)
- Bayardo by Peter Corbet (Rinaldo Publishing)
- Masters of Manton by Paul Mathieu (Write First Time)
- Bioenergetics and Racehorse Racing by Bob Wilkins (Overdee Press)
- Chasers and Hurdlers 09-10 by Timeform (Portway Press)
- The Art of the Race by Amanda Lockhart (Envisage Books)
BEST NEW SPORTS WRITER OF THE YEAR
- On The Road by Daniel Harris (Speakeasy Books)
- Sailing the Dream by Mike Perham (Bantam Press)
- Bounce by Matthew Syed (Fourth Estate)
- Overdrive by Clyde Brolin (Vatersay Books)
- Animals by Neil Clack (Pitch Publishing)
- The Fixer by Steve Bunce (Mainstream Publishing)
ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE YEAR
- Jochen Rindt by David Tremayne (Haynes Publishing)
- W.G.Grace Ate My Pedalo by Tyers and Beach (Wisden/Bloomsbury Publishing)
- Another Journey Through the Links by David Worley (Aurum)
- Manchester United 1878-2010 by Alex Murphy (Simon and Schuster)
- Twickenham by Iain Spragg (RFU/ Vision Sports Publishing)
- '61 The Spurs Double by Doug Cheeseman, Martin Cloake and Adam Powley (Vision Sports Publishing)