Awards
2010 has started very well for our clients with a raft of awards and commendations at the British Sports Journalism Awards dinner and the British Sports Book Awards, both of which took place in March. Here is a list of this year’s and previous years’ winners and shortlisted writers.
2009 BRITISH SPORTS JOURNALISM AWARDS - THE WINNERS
Live Blog: Tom Fordyce (bbc.co.uk).
Feature Writer: Owen Slot (The Times).
Columnist: Highly commended: Oliver Holt (Daily Mirror).
2009 BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS
Best Football Book of the Year 2009 (joint first prize)
Feet of the Chameleon: The Story of African Football - Ian Hawkey (Portico Books 2009)
Cantona: The Rebel Who Would be King - Philippe Auclair (Macmillan 2009)
Several of our clients have been shortlisted for the 2009 British Sports Book Awards across all the categories, including:
BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Lucky Break by Paul Nichols - Orion
BEST NEW WRITER
Blood Over Water by David and James Livingston - Bloomsbury
BEST FOOTBALL BOOK
Englischer Fussball by Rafael Honigstein - Yellow Jersey
Cantona by Philippe Auclair - Macmillan
Feet of the Chameleon by Ian Hawkey - Anova
Stokoe, Sunderland and 73 by Lance Hardy - Orion
BEST RUGBY BOOK
Lion Man by Ian McGeechan - Simon and Schuster (also shortlisted for Best Publicity Campaign).
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William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2009
Longlisted authors:
Phillipe Auclair: The Rebel Who Would be King (Macmillan)
Rick Broadbent: Ring of Fire: The Inside Story of Valentino Rossi and MotoGP (Bantam)
Tom Fordyce and Ben Dirs: We Could Be Heroes: Two Blokes, One Van, 12 World Championships (Macmillan)
Ian Hawkey: Feet of the Chameleon: The Story of Football in Africa (Portico)
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Blue Peter Book Awards 2009
Shortlisted author:
Tom Palmer: Foul Play (Puffin) – “Book I Couldn’t Put Down” Award
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2008 British Sports Book Awards
Winners:
James Montague: When Friday Comes (Mainstream) – Best new writer
Jonathan Wilson: Inverting the Pyramid (Orion) – Best football book
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William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2008
Shortlisted authors:
Jeremy Whittle: Bad Blood (Yellow Jersey)
Jonathan Wilson: Inverting the Pyramid (Orion)
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William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2007
Shorlisted authors:
Simon Wilde: Shane Warne: Portrait of a Flawed Genius (John Murray)
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William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2006
Shorlisted authors:
Paul Rambali: Barefoot Runner (Serpent’s Tail)
Gianluca Vialli & Gabrielle Marcotti: The Italian Job: A Journey to the Heart of Two Great Footballing Cultures (Bantam Press)