A surfer's prizewinning memoir, an insight into women's football and a chronicle of horse racing make Huw Richards' selection• Vote: What was your favourite book of the year? John Gaustad, who died in June, argued that "the best sports books are about life itself, as much as sport". The range, depth and ambition of the books published in 2016 prove his point. The judges for Gaustad's creation, the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, did him proud with a winner so leftfield - William Finnegan...
A surfer's prizewinning memoir, an insight into women's football and a chronicle of horse racing make Huw Richards' selection• Vote: What was your favourite book of the year? John Gaustad, who died in June, argued that "the best sports books are about life itself, as much as sport". The range, depth and ambition of the books published in 2016 prove his point. The judges for Gaustad's creation, the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, did him proud with a winner so leftfield - William Finnegan...
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