2017 William Hill Sports Book of the Year: Longlist
The 16-strong Longlist for 29th William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award has been announced and is as follows:
- Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig (Simon & Schuster)
- Breaking Ground: Art, Archaeology and Mythology edited by Neville Gabie, Alan Ward and Jason Wood (Axis Projects)
- Centaur by Declan Murphy and Ami Rao (Doubleday, Transworld)
- Connie: The Marvellous Life of Learie Constantine by Harry Pearson (Little, Brown)
- Feeling is the Thing that Happens in 1000th of a Second: A Season of Cricket Photographer Patrick Eager by Christian Ryan (riverrun, Quercus Books)
- Four Mums in a Boat by Helen Butters, Niki Doeg, Frances Davies and Janette Benaddi (HQ, HarperCollins)
- Gambling for Life by Harry Findlay (Trinity Mirror Sport Media)
- Knowing the Score: My Family and Our Tennis Story by Judy Murray (Chatto & Windus, Penguin Random House)
- On Form by Mark Brearley (Little, Brown)
- Quiet Genius: Bob Paisley, British Football’s Greatest Manager by Ian Herbert (Bloomsbury Sport, Bloomsbury)
- Redemption: From Iron Bars to Iron Man by John McAvoy and Mark Turley (Pitch Publishing)
- Swell: A Waterbiography by Jenny Landreth (Bloomsbury Sport, Bloomsbury)
- The Greatest Comeback: From Genocide to Football Glory by David Bolchover (Biteback Publishing)
- The Talent Lab: The secrets of creating and sustaining success by Owen Slot (Ebury Press, Penguin Random House)
- Tom Simpson: Bird on the Wire by Andy McGrath (Rapha Editions)
- When Lions Roared: The Lions, the All Blacks & the Legendary Tour of 1971 by Tom English and Peter Burns (Polaris Publishing)
Shortlisted authors will receive £3,000 cash, a leather-bound copy of their book, and a free £1,000 bet. Longlisted authors will receive a free £500 bet and a certificate.
The 2016 prize was won by Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan