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Awards >The Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award
(The Cricket Society Book of the Year Award 1970 to 2007*)
Please see the reviews of the 5 shortlisted books and the longlist with links to purchase online.
 2012 Chris Waters with his book Fred Trueman, The Authorised Biography
2011 Harry Pearson - Slipless In Settle, A Slow Turn Around Northern Cricket
2010 Anthony Gibson - Of Didcot and The Demon
2009 John Barclay - Life Beyond the Airing Cupboard
2007 Keith Booth - George Lohmann - Pioneer Professional
2006 Scyld Berry and Rupert Peploe - Cricket's Burning Passion, Ivo Bligh and the Story of the Ashes
2005 Eric Midwinter - Red Shirts and Roses
2004 David Rayvern Allen - Jim: The Life of E.W. Swanton
2003 David Frith - The Ross Gregory Story
2002 Ramachandra Guha - A Corner of a Foreign Field:
The Indian History of a British Sport
2001 Steven Chalke - At the Heart of English Cricket:
The Life and Memories of Geoffrey Howard
2000 Gideon Haigh - Mystery Spinner: The Story of Jack Iverson
1999 Sir Derek Birley - The Social History of English Cricket.
1998 Simon Rae - W.G.Grace: A Life
1998 J.R.Webber - The Chronicle of W.G.
1997 Ashley Mote - The Glory Days of Cricket: The Extraordinary Story of Broadhalfpenny Down
1996 Charles Williams - Bradman:An Australian Hero.
1995 Rob Steen - David Gower: A Man Out of Time
1994 David Rayvern Allen - Arlott: The Authorised Biography
1993 David Foot - Beyond Bat and Ball
1992 Mark Peel - England Expects: A Biography of Ken Barrington
1991 Alan Hill - Herbert Sutcliffe: Cricket Maestro
1990 Mihir Bose - History of Indian Cricket
1989 Simon Barnes - A La Recherche du Cricket Perdu
1988 Ric Sissons - The Players: A Social History of the Professional Cricketer
1987 David Frith - Pageant of Cricket
1986 Alan Hill - Hedley Verity: A Portrait of a Cricketer
1985 Mike Brearley - The Art of Captaincy
1984 Clive Ellis - C.B.: The Life of Charles Burgess Fry
1983 Jack Pollard - Australian Cricket: The Game and the Players
1982 Mike Brearley - Phoenix from the Ashes
1981 Richard Streeton - P.G.H.Fender: A Biography
1980 E.W.Swanton and John Woodcock - Barclay's World of Cricket
1979 Geoffrey Moorhouse - The Best Loved Game
1978 Irving Rosenwater - Sir Donald Bradman: A Biography
1977 Ian Peebles - Spinner's Yarn
1976 Ray Robinson - On Top Down Under: Australia's Cricket Captains
1975 Gerald Howat - Learie Constantine
1974 Leslie Duckworth - The Story of Warwickshire Cricket - 1882-1972
1973 E.W. Swanton - Sort of a Cricket Person
1972 J.M.Kilburn - Thanks to Cricket
1971 Peter Wynne-Thomas - Nottinghamshire Cricketers 1821-1914
1970 David Frith - My Dear Victorious Stod: A Biography of A.E. Stoddart
* Recording practice changed with the 2009 Award which was for books published in 2008. |
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