2014 William Hill Sports Book of the Year: Long-list
The winner of the 26th William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award will be announced on 27 November and will receive £25,000, a £2,500 William Hill bet, a hand-bound copy of their book and a day at the races.
The short-list will be announced on 24 October.
The long-list consists of the following books:
- Alone: The Triumph and Tragedy of John Curry by Bill Jones (Bloomsbury)
- An American Caddie in St. Andrews: Growing Up, Girls, and Looping on the Old Course by Oliver Horovitz (Elliott & Thompson)
- Bobby Moore: The Man in Full by Matt Dickinson (Yellow Jersey Press)
- Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport by Rob Steen (Bloomsbury)
- In Search of Duncan Ferguson: The Life and Crimes of a Footballing Enigma by Alan Pattullo (Mainstream Publishing)
- Love Game: A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon by Elizabeth Wilson (Serpent’s Tail)
- Night Games: Sex, Power and a Journey into the Dark Heart of Sport by Anna Krien (Yellow Jersey Press) Review
- Played in London: Charting the Heritage of a City at Play by Simon Inglis (English Heritage)
- Proud: My Autobiography by Gareth Thomas (Ebury Press)
- Run or Die by Kilian Jornet (Viking)
- Stuck in a Moment: The Ballad of Paul Vaessen by Stewart Taylor (GCR Books Ltd)
- The Breakaway: My Story by Nicole Cooke (Simon & Schuster)
- The Incredible Adventures of the Unstoppable Keeper by Lutz Pfannenstiel (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd) – Review
- The Three Degrees: The Men Who Changed British Football Forever by Paul Rees (Constable)
- Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography by Mike Tyson, with Larry Sloman (Harper Sport)