Sports Book Awards: Top Publications & Authors Honored

Golf Publication of the Year was granted to The Tiger Slam by Kevin Chef (Ebury Spotlight), and Illustrated Publication of the Year went to One Shilling by Matthew Caldwell and Alan Dein (Pitch Publishing). Searching for Novak by Mark Hodgkinson (Cassell) took home the International Sports Publication of the Year honor and The Great, the Bad & the Rugby– Unleashed by Alex Payne, James Haskell and Mike Tindall (HarperCollins) was named Sports Entertainment Book of the Year.

Key Award Winners Announced

Sports Performance Publication of the Year mosted likely to Trails and Tribulations by Susie Chan (Bloomsbury Sporting Activity), and the Sports Writing Award to These Hefty Black Bones by Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell (Canongate Books).

Johnny Sexton was awarded the Rugby Publication of the Year for Obsessed (Sandycove), a “honest and compelling” chronicle of a specifying era in Irish rugby, while Children’s Sports Publication of the Year went to The Life-Changing Magic of Skateboarding by Sky Brown and illustrated by Shaw Davidson (Magic Cat Publishing).

Rugby and Children’s Sports Recognition

Commenting on the occasion, Charles Tyrwhitt’s principal advertising and marketing police officer Joe Irons stated: “Sports books have an unique means of recording the highs and lows that specify the video games we love– and this year’s line-up is extremely affordable. We were thrilled to see which tales won the awards and happy to celebrate with the writers behind them.”

Fourteen awards existed at a ceremony at the Kia Oval on 1st Might, with Khalida Popal’s memoir My Lovely Sisters (John Murray), which charts Popal’s journey from Afghan nationwide group captain to global advocate for ladies’s civil liberties, named general Sports Book of the Year.

Overall Sports Book of the Year

Sir Chris Hoy won Memoir of the Year for his memoir All That Issues (Hodder & Stoughton), created with Matt Majendie, and author Roddy Bloomfield was honoured with a special Lifetime Achievement Honor, provided by the Times cricket reporter Michael Atherton, with tributes from Sir Alex Ferguson and Alan Shearer.

The courts defined Bloomfield as “a much-respected and distinguished figure in British sports posting, renowned for his amazing payments to the style over numerous decades. Operating at publisher Hodder and Stoughton, he has actually played a central duty fit the means sporting stories are informed, read and remembered, bringing the voices of professional athletes to life and helping to record the dramatization, interest and human spirit of sport in print”.

Cricket and Football Books Honored

Cricket Book of the Year mosted likely to Richie Benaud’s Blue Suede Shoes by David Kynaston and Harry Ricketts (Bloomsbury Posting), and Football Book of the Year to States of Play by Miguel Delaney (7 Dials).