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4th July 2009

Thirteen vie for sports book award

02.10.08

Thirteen authors will contest the 20th annual William Hill Sports Book of the Year, including Haruki Murakami, Marcus Trescothick, and Jackie Stewart.

The winning author will receive a £20,000 cash prize plus a £2,000 free William Hill bet. Hill's spokesman and founder of the award Graham Sharpe said: "We have a wonderful selection of longlist contenders for the twentieth annual award, and with record prize money on offer it will be the most eagerly anticipated occasion yet."

The shortlist will be announced on BBC Radio 5 Live by chairman of the judging panel, John Gaustad, on the Simon Mayo show on Thursday, 30th October. The winner will also be announced live on the programme on Monday, 24th November.


The longlist in full:

Paul Canoville - Black and Blue (Headline)

John Carlin - Playing the Enemy (Atlantic)

Janie Hampton - The Austerity Olympics [London 1948] (Aurum)

Rebecca Jenkins - The First London Olympics 1908 (Piatkus)

Richard Moore - Heroes, Villains and Velodromes (Harper)

Haruki Murakami - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Harvill Secker)

Musa Okwonga - A Cultured Left Foot (Duckworth)

Rowan Simons - Bamboo Goalposts (Macmillan)

Ed Smith - What Sport Tells Us About Life (Penguin)

Jackie Stewart - Winning is not enough (Headline)

Marcus Trescothick - Coming back to me: The Autobiography (Harper)

Jeremy Whittle - Bad Blood (Yellow Jersey)

Jonathan Wilson - Inverting the Pyramid (Orion)

Prize William Hill Sports Book of the Year Graham Sharpe Haruki Murakami Marcus Trescothick Jackie Stewart

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