THE SHORTLISTS FOR the 2015 British Sports Book Awards were announced on Thursday with Roy Keane and Roddy Doyle’s The Second Half nominated in three categories.
Keane’s second memoir is in the running for Autobiography of the Year as well as Football Book of the Year and the Outstanding Sports Writing Award.
Brian O’Driscoll’s The Test is nominated for Rugby Book of the Year.
The winners will be announced on 3 June but in the meantime, there are more than enough eye-catching titles there to add to your shopping list.
Autobiography of the Year
- Guy Martin – Guy Martin
- No Limits – Ian Poulter
- Proud – Gareth Thomas
- The Breakaway – Nicole Cooke
- The Climb – Chris Froome
- The Second Half – Roy Keane with Roddy Doyle
Biography of the Year
- Alone: The Triumph & Tragedy of John Curry – Bill Jones
- Bobby Moore: The Man in Full – Matt Dickinson
- Chase Your Shadow – John Carlin
- One Day as a Tiger – John Porter
- Scream: The Tyson Tapes – Jonathan Rendall
- Shadows on the Road – Michael Barry
Football Book of the Year
- Bobby Moore: The Man in Full – Matt Dickinson
- I Don’t Know What It Is But I Love It – Tony Evans
- The Boy in Brazil: Living, Loving and Learning in the Land of Football – Seth Burkett
- Fergie Rises: How Britain’s Greatest Football Manager Was Made at Aberdeen -Michael Grant
- The Second Half – Roy Keane with Roddy Doyle
- Thirty One Nil – James Montague
- In Search of Duncan Ferguson – Alan Patullo
Rugby Book of the Year
- Beyond the Horizon – Richard Parks
- Behind the Rose: Playing Rugby for England – Stephen Jones and Nick Cain
- The Test – Brian O’Driscoll
- Proud – Gareth Thomas
- The Secret Life of Twickenham – Chris Jones
- Undefeated: The Story of the 1974 Lions – Rhodri Davies
Cricket Book of the Year
- 10 for 10: Hedley Verity and the Story of Cricket’s Greatest Bowling Feat – Chris Waters
- Britain’s Lost Cricket Festivals – Chris Arnot
- Field of Shadows: The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany – Dan Waddell
- The Final Over: The Cricketers of Summer 1914 – Christopher Sandford
- Wisden on the Great War – Andrew Renshaw
- Wounded Tiger: The History of Cricket In Pakistan – Peter Oborne
Horse Racing Book of the Year
- Burrough Hill Lad: The Making of a Champion Racehorse – Gavan Naden and Max Riddington
- Cheltenham et Al: The Best of Alastair Down – Alastair Down
- If Horses Could Talk – Gary Witheford
- McCoy: In the Frame – Edward Whitaker
- The Sure Thing – Nick Townsend
- William Hill: The Man and the Business – Graham Sharpe with Mihir Bose
Cycling Book of the Year
- Climbs and Punishment – Felix Lowe
- Étape: The Untold Stories of the Tour De France’s Defining Stages – Richard Moore
- Gironimo! Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy – Tim Moore
- Great British Cycling: The History of British Bike Racing 1868-2014 – Ellis Bacon
- The Race Against the Stasi – Herbie Sykes
- 101 Damnations: Dispatches from the 101st Tour De France – Ned Boulting
Outstanding Sports Writing Award
- Alone: The Triumph & Tragedy of John Curry – Bill Jones
- Bobby Moore: The Man in Full – Matt Dickinson
- The Second Half – Roy Keane with Roddy Doyle
- O, Louis: In Search of Louis van Gaal – Hugo Borst
- The Game of Our Lives – David Goldblatt
- The Race Against the Stasi – Herbie Sykes
New Writer of the Year
- Driven – Toby Vintcent
- Finding My Feet – Claire Lomas
- Night Games: Sex, Power and a Journey Into the Dark Heart of Sport – Anna Krien
- Salt, Sweat, Tears: The Men Who Rowed the Ocean – Adam Rackley
- Sol Campbell – Simon Astaire
- Stuck in a Moment: The Ballad of Paul Vaessen – Stewart Taylor
Illustrated Book of the Year
- The Age of Innocence: Football in the 1970s – Reuel Golden (ed.)
- The Arsenal Shirt – James Elkin and Simon Shakeshaft
- The Art of Sports Photography – Marc Aspland
- Formula One Circuits from Above – Bruce Jones
- Golf’s Royal Clubs – Scott Macpherson
- Parkrun: A Celebration – Paul Warrington, Rob Kemp, Julian Ward and Paul Duke
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