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The shortlists have been announced for the seven categories in this year's seventh annual British Sports Book Awards. Mainstream is out in front with six books nominated, followed by Haynes with five books and Headline with four.
The winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, Marcus Trescothick's Coming Back to Me is shortlisted for both autobiography and cricket book of the year. The awards will be presented following lunch at the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel in London on Wednesday 18th March.
Autobiography of the Year
What a Good Do by James Whitham (Haynes)
Coming Back to Me by Marcus Trescothick (HarperSport)
Black and Blue by Paul Canoville (Headline)
My England Years by Sir Bobby Charlton (Headline)
In Pursuit of Glory by Bradley Wiggins (Orion)
Better Than Sex by Mick Fitzgerald (Highdown)
Biography of the Year
Boxing: A Cultural History by Kasia Boddy (Reaktion)
Concrete for Breakfast More Tales from the Shale by Jeff Scott (Methanol Press)
Arnie and Jack Golf’s Greatest Rivalry by Ian O’Connor (Yellow Jersey Press)
Sex, Lies and Handlebar Tape: Jacques Anquetil by Paul Howard (Mainstream)
Regga: Clay Regazzoni by Christopher Hilton (Haynes)
The Austerity Olympics by Jane Hampton (Aurum Press)
Best Illustrated Title
When Football was Football by Richard Havers (Haynes)
Newcastle: My Kind of Toon by Sir Bobby Robson (Hodder & Stoughton)
Golf Architecture: A World-wide Perspective (Aurum Books)
In the Frame: Great Racing Photographs by Ed Whitaker (Highdown Press)
Rugby Union Manual by Howard Johnson (Haynes)
Best new writer
When Friday Comes by James Montague (Mainstream)
Four Kings by George Kimball (Mainstream)
When the Whistle Blows Andrew Riddoch (Haynes)
Anfield of Dreams by Neil Dunkin (Know the Score Books)
Bikila: Ethiopia’s Barefoot Olympian by Tim Judah (Reportage Press)
Best football book
Capello by Gabriel Marcotti (Transworld)
Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson (Orion)
Don’t Mention the Score by Simon Briggs (Quercus)
My England Years Sir Bobby Charlton with James Lawton (Headline)
Black and Blue by Paul Canoville (Headline)
Best cricket book
Bob Woolmer’s Art and Science of Cricket (New Holland)
Coming Back to Me by Marcus Trescothick (HarperSport)
Life Beyond the Airing Cupboard by John Barclay (Fairfield Books)
The Way It Was by Stephen Chalke (Fairfield)
What Sport Tells Us About Life by Ed Smith (Viking/Penguin)
Best rugby book
The Accies: Cradle of Scottish Rugby by David Barnes (Birlinn)
Shane: My Story by Shane Williams and Delme Parfitt (Mainstream)
Playing the Enemy Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation by John Carlin (Atlantic)
Seeing Red: Twelve Tumultuous Years in Welsh Rugby by Alun Carter and Nick Bishop (Mainstream)
The Resurrection Men: Wales' Grand Slam 2008 by Paul Rees (Mainstream)