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28 October 2006
Shortlist For Sports Book Of Year
Announced
The six books short-listed
for the 2006 William
Hill Sports Book
of the Year Award, the most prestigious and valuable prize
of its type - worth £20,000 to the winning author -
have been announced.
The books are:
Andrew Greig
Preferred Lies: A Journey
to the Heart of Scottish Golf
(Weidenfeld &
Nicolson) an intensely moving personal golfing odyssey by a
poet and novelist.
Paul Rambali
Barefoot Runner: The Life
of Marathon Champion Abebe Bikila
(Serpent's Tail) the
little known life story of the astonishing Ethiopian, Abebe
Bikila who twice won Olympic Gold and revolutionised
Marathon running.
Matt Rendell
The Death of Marco
Pantani: A Biography
(Weidenfeld &
Nicolson) Tour de France triumph and personal tragedy were
combined in the most charismatic of cycling
legends.
Gianluca Vialli and
Gabriele Marcotti
The Italian Job: A Journey
to the Heart of Two Great Footballing Cultures
(Bantam) hugely popular
Italian international and Chelsea player turned successful
boss, Vialli's unique perspective contrasts attitudes and
approaches to football in his native Italy and adopted
England.
Guy Walters
Berlin Games: How Hitler
Stole the Olympic Dream
(John Murray) chilling
examination of the way in which Hitler manouvered the
organisation of the Olympic Games to suit his own ends and
political ambitions.
Geoffrey Ward
Unforgivable Blackness:
The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
(Pimlico) how the first
great black World Heavyweight Champion ruffled the feathers
and almost literally got under the skin of the USA
establishment of his day.
The announcement of the
winner of this year's eighteenth William Hill Sports Book of
the Year Award (run in association with Waterstones) - will
be made at Waterstones in Piccadilly at a lunchtime ceremony
on Monday, November 27.
'This is a vintage year
featuring a wide range of superb books covering diverse
sporting characters and subjects. The winner will have
beaten off perhaps the strongest short-list ever assembled'
said William Hill's spokesman Graham Sharpe.
The Judging Panel for the
Award consists of: twice Sports Journalist of the Year, Paul
Hayward; well known broadcaster and writer John Inverdale;
broadcaster and writer Danny Kelly; the only sports
journalist to win the overall 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 founder of the
Sportspages bookshop, John Gaustad.
The winner of the William
Hill Sports Book of the Year will receive £18,000 cash
plus a £2000 William Hill free bet; plus a specially
commissioned, unique bound copy of his book by master
bookbinder David Sellars. The runners-up will each receive
£2000 cash, a £1000 William Hill free bet and a
leather-bound copy of the book.
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