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Billy Graham

Cumnor Hill Book awards 2013

The second annual Cumnor Hill* Sports Book awards have been announced.

Book of the year: Dreams do come true, Katherine Grainger, Andre Deutsch Limited 2013. ISBN 978-0-233-00381-8 Review

Category: Best Biography

Winner: My Autobiography, Alex Ferguson, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 2013 Review

Category:Best Olympic Biography

Winner Dreams do come true, Katherine Grainger, Andre Deutsch Limited 2013. ISBN 978-0-233-00381-8 Review

Honourable mention: Swim, Bike, Run Alistair Brownlee and Jonathan Brownlee, London, Viking/Penguin, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-670-92312-0 Review

Category: Best Athletics Book

Winner: Twin Ambitions, Mo Farah, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 2013. ISBN 978 1 444 77957 8 Review

Category: Cricket

Winner: An endangered Species, David Gower, London, Simon and Schuster, 2013. ISBN 978-1-47110-237-0 Review

Category: Best Football

Winner: Goodfella, Craig Bellamy, Liverpool,Trinity Mirror Sport Media, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-908695-30-7 Review

Honourable mention: Stillness and speed, Dennis Bergkamp, London, Simon and Schuster, 2013. ISBN 978-147112-951-3 Review

Category: Best Sport and Faith

Winner: Free to compete: Reflections on sport from a Christian perspective, Roger D Lipe, Cross Training Publishing, 2013,ISBN: 978-1-938254-15-4 Review

* The Cumnor Hill Sports Book awards are so called because all prestigious sports book awards need to have a Hill in the title. Cumnor Hill is the nearest hill to where I live.

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