Mike Tyson and retired Welsh rugby star Gareth Thomas longlisted for William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014

30.09.14 | Caroline Carpenter - The Bookseller

Controversy-dogged former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, retired Welsh rugby star Gareth Thomas and Olympic gold-medallist Nicole Cooke are among those who have been longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014.

Tyson is longlisted for his "no-holds-barred" autobiography Undisputed Truth (HarperSport), written with Larry Sloman. Thomas, the highest-profile sportsman in the UK to come out as gay, has been longlisted for his autobiography Proud (Ebury Press), while Cooke, the first British cyclist to have been ranked world number one, is in the running for her autobiography (Simon & Schuster).

Bloomsbury and Yellow Jersey Press each have two titles on the longlist. Bloomsbury’s Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport by Rob Steen and Alone, a biography of figure skater John Curry by Bill Jones, are up against Matt Dickinson’s Bobby Moore: The Man in Full and Anna Krien’s Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport from Yellow Jersey Press.

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