![]() ![]() Read our review of Provided You Don’t Kiss Me in full by clicking here ![]() “This was perhaps the strongest shortlist ever assembled for the award and is proof of the success of the prize in encouraging publishers to commission high quality writing as well as the block-buster ‘kiss and tell’ titles,” said William Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe. Hamilton, now deputy editor at the Yorkshire Post, receives an £18,000 first prize, plus a £2,000 bet with the sponsors, after seeing off challenges from a typically eclectic shortlist for the “Bookies’ Prize” that also included the first volume of Sir Bobby Charlton’s biography and a defining account of golf pioneers Young and Old Tom Morris. It was a timely award, coming on the day when Derby County sacked their manager, Billy Davies, after a dispute with his club chairman (sound familiar?), and while choosing the right man to manage the England team – the job that was denied Clough throughout his mercurial career – is again the hot sporting topic. ![]() ![]() Duncan Hamilton’s account of his years working on a local newspaper, covering the goings on at Nottingham Forest under manager Brian Clough, Provided You Don’t Kiss Me, was declared the winner of the 2007 William Hill Sports Book of the Year at a ceremony in central London this afternoon. ![]()
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