William Hill Sports Book of the Year
Winners

William Hill Sports Book of the Year

Section Title: Winners
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Year	Title	Author(s)	Featured subject(s)	Featured sport	Ref(s)

1989	True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny	Dan Topolski, Patrick Robinson	The Boat Race	Rowing

1990	Rough Ride: An Insight into Pro Cycling	Paul Kimmage	Paul Kimmage	Cycling

1991	Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times	Thomas Hauser	Muhammad Ali	Boxing

1992	Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life	Nick Hornby	Nick Hornby	Football

1993	Endless Winter: The Inside Story of the Rugby Revolution	Stephen Jones	Rugby football	Rugby football

1994	Football Against the Enemy	Simon Kuper	Football	Football

1995	A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour	John Feinstein	PGA Tour	Golf

1996	Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing	Donald McRae	Boxing	Boxing

1997	A Lot of Hard Yakka: Cricketing Life on the County Circuit	Simon Hughes	Simon Hughes	Cricket

1998	Angry White Pyjamas: An Oxford Poet Trains with the Tokyo Riot Police	Robert Twigger	Robert Twigger	Aikido

1999	A Social History of English Cricket	Derek Birley	Cricket	Cricket

2000	It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life	Lance Armstrong, Sally Jenkins	Lance Armstrong	Cycling

2001	Seabiscuit: The True Story of Three Men and a Racehorse	Laura Hillenbrand	Seabiscuit	Horse racing

2002	In Black and White: The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens	Donald McRae	Joe Louis, Jesse Owens	Athletics, Boxing

2003	Broken Dreams: Vanity, Greed and the Souring of British Football	Tom Bower	Football	Football

2004	Basil D'Oliveira: Cricket and Conspiracy: the Untold Story	Peter Oborne	Basil D'Oliveira	Cricket

2005	My Father & Other Working Class Football Heroes	Gary Imlach	Stewart Imlach	Football

2006	Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson	Geoffrey Ward	Jack Johnson	Boxing

2007	Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years With Brian Clough	Duncan Hamilton	Brian Clough	Football

2008	Coming Back to Me: The Autobiography of Marcus Trescothick	Marcus Trescothick, Peter Hayter	Marcus Trescothick	Cricket

2009	Harold Larwood	Duncan Hamilton	Harold Larwood	Cricket

2010	Beware of the Dog: Rugby's Hard Man Reveals All	Brian Moore	Brian Moore	Rugby football

2011	A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke	Ronald Reng	Robert Enke	Football

2012	The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs	Tyler Hamilton, Daniel Coyle	Tyler Hamilton, Lance Armstrong	Cycling

2013	Doped: The Real Life Story of the 1960s Racehorse Doping Gang	Jamie Reid	William Roper, Micheline Lugeon	Horse racing

2014	Night Games: Sex, Power and a Journey into the Dark Heart of Sport	Anna Krien	"Justin Dyer"	Australian Rules Football

2015	The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football	David Goldblatt	Football	Football

2016	Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life	William Finnegan	William Finnegan	Surfing

2017	Tom Simpson: Bird on Wire	Andy McGrath	Tom Simpson	Cycling

2018	A Boy in The Water [joint winner]	Tom Gregory	Tom Gregory	Swimming

2018	The Lost Soul of Eamonn Magee [joint winner]	Paul D. Gibson	Eamonn Magee	Boxing

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