The 2016 William Hill Sports Book of the Year has be won by William Finnegan, with his book, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. It is another major award after the book won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography/Autobiography earlier this year.

Read reviews about the book via the following links:

www.thepenguinpress.com/book/barbarian-days-a-surfing-life-2/

www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/14/barbarian-days-surfing-life-william-finnegan-review

www.pulitzer.org/winners/william-finnegan

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/barbarian-days-a-surfing-life-by-william-finnegan-review-waves-of-emotion-in-a-compelling-surfing-10498919.html