Clee & Agassi score at Sports Book Awards
11.03.10 | Katie Allen
Former Bookseller editor Nicholas Clee has won the Best New Writer Prize at the British Sports Book Awards 2010 for his title Eclipse (Bantam Press).
The awards, revealed this evening (11th March), also saw Transworld's Madeline Toy win the inaugural best publicity campaign for a sports book for The Man Who Cycled the World by bicycling adventurer Mark Beaumont.
Andre Agassi's Open (HarperCollins) took home best autobiography, while best biography went to William Hill Sports Book of the Year winner Harold Larwood by Duncan Hamilton (Quercus).
Best illustrated book went to Centre Court by John Barrett and Ian Hewitt (Vision Sports); best rugby book to Confessions of a Rugby Mercenary by John Daniell (Ebury Press) and best cricket book to Golden Boy by Christian Ryan (Allen & Unwin).
The joint winners of best football book were Cantona by Philippe Auclair (Macmillan) and Feet of the Chameleon by Ian Hawkey (Anova).
