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The shortlists for the Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards have been revealed, with books by Stuart Broad, Dame Kelly Holmes and Chris Kamara among those nominated.
The organisers of the 2024 Sports Book Awards, which are run in association with the Sunday Times, recently announced the clothing brand Charles Tyrwhitt as the prize’s new Headline Sponsor.
Among those shortlisted for the Charles Tyrwhitt Autobiography of the Year award are Stuart Broad with Broadly Speaking (Hodder & Stoughton), Dame Kelly Holmes with Unique - A Memoir (Mirror Books) and Chris Kamara with Kammy (Pan Macmillan).
Jane Purdon’s The Homecoming (Pitch Publishing) is also shortlisted this year, in the Vikki Orvice Women’s Sports Writing Award category. Also in this category, Lee Craigie is shortlisted for Other Ways to Win (Vertebrate Publishing), while Rachel Hewitt is in the running for In Her Nature (Chatto & Windus). Featured in the Children’s category are Beth Mead’s Roar, written with Matt Oldfield (Wren & Rook), as well as Kimberly Whittam’s Quiet Storm (Usborne). Meanwhile, Johnnie Lowery and Piero Trellini are vying for the Football Book of the Year award, with Match Fit andThe Match respectively — both of which are published by Pitch Publishing.
A public vote is now open for autobiography category, as well as Sports Entertainment Book of the Year.
Double Olympic Gold medallist Holmes said of her nomination:“It’s my second nomination at The Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards and it’s a real honour to be featuring in a category with some amazing sportsmen and women. I’m truly delighted to be nominated in the Best Autobiography category.”
The winners will be presented at a ceremony hosted by broadcaster and journalist Mark Pougatch, held at the Kia Oval in south-east London on 6th June.
Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards Autobiography of the Year, in association with the Sunday Times
Broadly Speaking by Stuart Broad (Hodder & Stoughton)
Carl Frampton: My Autobiography by Carl Frampton with Paul Gibson (Merrion Press)
Kammy by Chris Kamara (Pan Macmillan)
The Extra Mile by Kevin Sinfield with Paul Hayward (Century)
Unbreakable by Ronnie O’Sullivan with Tom Fordyce (Seven Dials, Orion)
Unique - A Memoir by Dame Kelly Holmes (Mirror Books)
Who am I? by Danny Cipriani with Ben Dirs (HarperCollins)
Winning the Fight, Maggie Alphonsi with Gavin Mairs (Polaris Publishing)
Vikki Orvice Women’s Sports Writing Award, in association with DAZN
The Homecoming by Jane Purdon (Pitch Publishing)
Roar: A Celebration of Great Sporting Women by Sam Quek (Allen & Unwin)
Other Ways to Win by Lee Craigie (Vertebrate Publishing)
Woman Up by Carrie Dunn (Hero Press)
Fearless by Louise Minchin (Bloomsbury Sport)
In Her Nature by Rachel Hewitt (Chatto & Windus)
Pinsent Masons Sports Writing Award
Tinseltown by Ian Herbert (Headline)
Nazaré by Matt Majendie (Welbeck)
Unfair Play by Sharron Davies with Craig Lord (Forum)
Concussed by Sam Peters (Allen & Unwin)
Courses for Horses by Nicholas Clee (W&N)
1923 by Ned Boulting (Bloomsbury Sport)
Children’s Sports Book of the Year, supported by the National Literacy Trust & Waterstones
Gold Medal Mysteries: Thief on the Track by Ellie Robinson & illustrated by James Lancett (Simon & Schuster)
Quiet Storm by Kimberly Whittam (Usborne)
Roar by Beth Mead with Matt Oldfield (Wren & Rook)
Football’s Champions of Change by Damian Johnson, illustrated by Laura Greenan (Welbeck Children’s Books)
Stupendous Sports: Cracking Cricket by Robin Bennett & illustrated by Matt Cherry (Firefly Press)
You Have the Power: Find Your Strength and Believe You Can by Leah Williamson with Suzanne Wrack (Macmillan Children’s Books)
Charles Tyrwhitt Rugby Book of the Year, in association with the Rugby Union Writers’ Club
Brotherhood by Martin Pengelly and introduction by H. R. McMaster (David R. Godine)
Concussed by Sam Peters (Allen & Unwin)
The Men in the Arena by Peter Burns and Tom English (Polaris Publishing Ltd)
Rassie by Rassie Erasmus with David O’Sullivan (Macmillan)
The Boys of Winter by Lawrence Dallaglio & Owen Slot (Bonnier Books)
Throwing the Book by Wayne Barnes with Ben Dirs (Constable)
The Heartaches’ Cricket Book of the Year
Bazball by Nick Hoult and Lawrence Booth (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Legacy by Nick Compton (Allen & Unwin)
Son of Grace by Vaneisa Baksh (Fairfield Books)
Sticky Dogs and Stardust by Scott Oliver (Fairfield Books)
White Hot by Tim Wigmore & Matt Roller (Bloomsbury Sport)
The Tour by Simon Wilde (Simon & Schuster)
Cycling Book of the Year
The Race of Truth by Leigh Timmis (Summersdale Publishers)
Other Ways to Win by Lee Craigie (Vertebrate Publishing)
Coffee First, Then the World by Jenny Graham (Bloomsbury Sport)
1923 by Ned Boulting (Bloomsbury Sport)
Bloody Minded by Alex Dowsett (Bloomsbury Sport)
The Green Bullet by Matt Rendell (Seven Dials)
Football Book of the Year, in association with the Football Writers’ Association
“Get Your Tits Out For the Lads” by Sally Freedman (Fair Play Publishing)
Blue Was The Colour by Andy Hamilton (Pitch Publishing)
Match Fit by Johnnie Lowery (Pitch Publishing)
The Match by Piero Trellini (Pitch Publishing)
Answered Prayers by Duncan Hamilton (Riverrun)
Haaland by Lars Sivertsen (Ebury Spotlight)
Revolution by John Greechan (Birlinn)
The Three Lives of the Kaiser by Uli Hesse (Simon & Schuster)
The J P Marland Charitable Trust Illustrated Book of the Year
Old Manchester United In Colour by Manchester United and Andy Imrie (Reach Sport)
The Art of Liverpool FC by Liverpool FC and David Cottrell (Reach Sport)
Legends at the Lane by Danny Hall and Pete O’Leary (Vertical Editions)
Playing for the Shirt by Michael Clifford (Pitch Publishing)
Remarkable Rugby Grounds by Ryan Herman (Pavilion Books)
London Irish by Patrick Lennon (Vision Sports Publishing)
Bromley Cricket Club 1820-2020 Bicentenary History, edited by CDM Tooley (Compass Publishing)
International Sports Book of the Year
What It Takes by Sarina Wiegman with Jeroen Visscher (HarperCollins)
Unstoppable by Mark Hughes (Headline)
My Life, My Football by Andriy Shevchenko (BackPage)
MAGIC by Roland Lazenby (Seven Dials)
LeBron by Jeff Benedict (Simon & Schuster)
Phil by Alan Shipnuck (Simon & Schuster)
Sports Entertainment Book of the Year
The Tourist by Phil Tufnell with John Woodhouse (HarperCollins)
Everything to Play For by James Harkin and Anna Ptaszynski (Faber)
The Football Weekly Book by Barry Glendenning and Max Rushden, edited by Jonathan Wilson (Faber)
How We Fish by Paul Whitehouse and John Bailey, illustrated by Carys Reilly-Whitehouse (Mudlark)
Surviving to Drive by Guenther Steiner (Bantam)
Newbon, Bloody Hell by Gary Newbon (Biteback Publishing)