The British Sports Book Awards

British Sports Book Awards: A celebration of Sports Books aimed at Father’s Day.

“The heritage of the British Sports Book Awards stretches back 10 years after being originally created under the auspices of the National Sporting Club of Great Britain. After reviewing the success and potential for development, we subtly re-aligned the awards from 2011 and have created bigger brand exposure, a stronger presence in the media and a campaign in the bookshops. Helped in this by agile marketing and with the addition of further categories, sponsors & media partners. The event itself is pre-Father’s Day, for a mainly paperback, cross industry celebration of sports books. Thank you for continuing to support your authors through submitting them for award consideration and I hope we can make the 2012 Awards the biggest success yet.”
David Willis, chair & founder of the British Sports Book Awards

AWARD CATEGORIES:
Autobiography / Biography of the Year
Cricket Book of the Year
Football Book of the Year
Golf Book of the Year
Horse Racing Book of the Year
Motorsports Book of the Year
Rugby Book of the Year
Illustrated Book of the Year
New Writer of the Year
Best Enhanced Sports e-Book of the Year
Best Sports Bookseller
Best Publicity Campaign
Outstanding Contribution to Sports Writing

Sponsors and media partners this year include: The Times, Simon & Schuster, Sainsbury's, Coutts, Ladbrokes, Littlehampton Book Services, Butler, Tanner & Dennis, Getty Images,The Wisden Cricketer, Sky Sports and TalkSport.

The National Sporting Club’s reputation for independence and fair play has been established over the last 117 years of sporting events.
The British Sports Book Awards judges are all from the world of sports writing.

The 2011 winners were as follows:

Overall Sports Book of the Year (winner of the online vote from the 8 category winners) - Promised Land - Anthony Clavane (Yellow Jersey Press)

Best Autobiography - Beware of the Dog - Brian Moore (Simon and Schuster)

Best Biography - Trautmann's Journey - Catrine Clay (Yellow Jersey Press)

Best Sports Book Retailer - WHSmith

Best Football Book - Promised Land - Anthony Clavane (Yellow Jersey Press)

Best Cricket Book - Slipless in Settle - Harry Pearson (Little, Brown)

Best Rugby Book - The Grudge - Tom English (Yellow Jersey Press)

Best Racing Book - The Story of Your Life - James Lambie (Matador)

Best Illustrated Title - '61 The Spurs Double - Doug Cheeseman, Martin Cloake and Adam Powley (Tottenham Hotspur FC /Vision Sports Publishing)

Best Publicity Campaign - It's All About the Bike - Robert Penn - (Particular Books) - Campaign by Mari Yamazaki

Best New Writer - Bounce - Matthew Syed - (Fourth Estate)

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Please visit www.britishsportsbookawards.com

For the 2012 nominations info click here.