Cross British Sports Book Awards: Bill Jones, Chris Waters, Stewart Taylor and Nick Townsend take on headline names
Triple nomination for Roy Keane bestseller Bobby Moore: The Man in Full also named in three categories Trueman author Waters in contention with 10 for 10 Townsend's The Sure Thing stands out among racing books The shortlists for the 2015 British Sports Book Awards include some predictable nominations as well as some that did not make the bestseller lists but win some well deserved recognition. Familiar titles include The Second Half, the memoir penned on Roy Keane's behalf by Booker Prize-winning novelist Roddy Doyle, which is nominated in three categories. Other well-known names among this year's 10 categories include rugby stars Brian O’Driscoll, whose The Test is shortlisted for Rugby Book of the Year and Autobiography sections, and Gareth Thomas, also nominated in Rugby and Autobiography for Proud, on which he collaborated with Michael Calvin, whose own book, The Nowhere Men , won the Football category and the vote for overall Sports Book of