The British Sports Book Awards exist to highlight and give prominence to the very best sports books published in the previous calendar year. For 2013, the awards will be presented at Lord’s Cricket Ground tonight.
We’ll be offering one lucky 220 reader the chance to win all of the winning titles here tomorrow.
Here are the nominees...
Best New Writer
Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World by Graham Hunter
Beautiful Brutality: The Family Ties at the Heart of Boxing by Adam Smith
Run Wild by Boff Whalley
Running with the Kenyans: Discovering the secrets of the fastest people on earth by Adharanand Finn
Shot and a Ghost: A Year in the Brutal World of Professional Squash by James Willstrop
Sit Down and Cheer: A history of sport on TV by Martin Kelner
Autobiography / Biography
An Open Book by Darren Clarke
Be Careful What You Wish For by Simon Jordan
Merckx: Half Man Half Bike by William Fotheringham
My Time by Bradley Wiggins
Running My Life by Seb Coe
Seven Deadly Sins by David Walsh
The Footballer Who Could Fly by Duncan Hamilton
This Is Me by Ian Thorpe
Cricket Book of the Year
CMJ: A Cricketing Life by Christopher Martin-Jenkins
Gentlemen & Players by Charles Williams
On Warne by Gideon Haigh
The Plan: How Fletcher and Flower Transformed English Cricket by Steve James
The Valiant Cricketer - The Biography of Trevor Bailey by Alan Hill
We’ll Get ’Em in Sequins: Manliness, Yorkshire cricket and the century that changed everything by Max Davidson
Football Book of the Year
Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World by Graham Hunter
Be Careful What You Wish For by Simon Jordan
Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here: The Story oF English Football's Forgotten Tribe by Anthony Clavane
Pep Guardiola by Guillem Balague
Richer Than God: Manchester City, Moderrn Football and Growing UP by David Conn
The Outsider by Jonathan Wilson
Rugby Book of the Year
Behind the Lions: Playing Rugby for the British & Irish Lions by Stephen Jones, Tom English, Nick Cain and David Barnes
Brent Pope: If You Really Knew Me by Brent Pope & Kevin MacDermot
My Life As a Hooker by Steven Gauge
The Final Whistle: The Great War in Fifteen Players by Stephen Cooper
The Outsider by Geordan Murphy
Who Beat the All Blacks? by Alun Gibbard
Motorsports Book of the Year
My Chequered Career: Thirty-five years of televising motorsport by Steve Rider
Team Lotus: My View from the Pit Wall by Peter Warr
That Near Death Thing by Rick Broadbent
Formula 1: All the Races: The World Championship story race by race: 1950-2012 by Roger Smith
Lotus 72 Owners' Manual by Ian Wagstaff
I Just Made the Tea by Di Spires and Bernard Ferguson
Horse Racing Book of the Year
A Weight Off My Mind by Richard Hughes with Lee Mottershead
Clive Brittain: The Smiling Pioneer by Robin Oakley
Her Majesty’s Pleasure by Julian Muscat
My Animals and Other Family by Clare Balding
Racing Crazy by David Ashforth
When Horse Racing was Horse Racing by Adam Powley
Golf Book of the Year
Out of Bounds by Sam Torrance
An Open Book by Darren Clarke
Miracle at Medinah by Oliver Holt
Bobby's Open: Mr Jones and the Golf Shot that Defined a Legend by Steven Reid
Seve: Golf's Flawed Genius by Robert Green
The Bible of Golf by Skellett & Weitzman
Illustrated
21 Days to Glory by Team Sky and Dave Brailsford
A Swing for Life by Nick Faldo
Bike! A Tribute to the World's Greatest Cycling Designers by Richard Moore & Daniel Benson
Coppi: Inside the legend of the campionissimo by Herbie Sykes
Frankel: The Wonder Horse edited by Andrew Pennington
The Glory Glory Nights by Martin Cloake and Adam Powley
Publicity Award
Be Careful What You Wish For by Simon Jordan - Bethan Jones
Between the Lines by Victoria Pendleton with Donald McRae - Caroline March,
Running My Life by Sebastian Coe - Karen Geary
The Secret Race by Tyler Hamilton - Alison Barrow
Tom Daley: My Story by Tom Daley – Jo Wickham
Unbelievable by Jessica Ennis – Eleni Lawrence and Lucy Zilberkweit
More information at www.britishsportsbookawards.co.uk
