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DAVID LUXTON ASSOCIATES SPORTS HOTLIST 2016
Arsene Wenger: The Inside Story of Arsenal under Wenger by John Cross Publication: September 2015, Simon & Schuster (UK & Commonwealth) Primary Agent: David Luxton All rights: Rebecca Winfield Sold: Bulgaria (Janua ’98), Poland (SQN), Czech Republic (Mlada Fronta), Japan (Toyokan), Korea (Garam Publishing) In this fascinating account of Arsene Wenger's reign as manager of Arsenal and the methods he has used to keep the club at the top, John Cross has spoken to everyone from board members to players and backroom staff to build the most complete portrait of the man and his management style, and the club he has inspired for almost 20 years. When Wenger arrived at Arsenal in 1996, he was little known to fans at the club and many doubted he could bring back the glory days of George Graham. But soon he was transforming the way the team played. Having won numerous trophies, and led the Invincibles in 2003-‐04. Despite the financial constraints he faced, he still managed to keep the club playing in the Champions League year after year while remaining true to his philosophy of how the game should be played. Furthermore, he once again began to build a trophy-‐winning squad, winning back-‐to-‐back FA Cups in 2014 and 2015 that was admired by football fans
Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was by Daniel Friebe Publication: June 2017, Pan MacMillan (UK & Commonwealth) Primary Agent: David Luxton All rights: Rebecca Winfield Sold: USA (Velo Press) Jan Ullrich was one of Germany’s greatest sportsmen. He is the only German to win the Tour de France (1997) and took gold and silver medals at the 2000 Olympics. His success led to a bicycle boom in Germany. And yet few people outside the world of cycling have heard of him. This is his remarkable story, which will be published on the tenth anniversary of his retirement. Daniel Friebe, who has unique access to the men and women who know Ullrich best, will take us behind the scenes to show us how this young cyclist from East Germany dealt with his incredible rise to success, and then floundered in the aftermath. This book is both a celebration of the sport and an exploration of the unbearable expectation, mental and physical fragilities and the legacies of a troubled childhood that have dogged Ullrich’s career. Daniel Friebe is one of Britain’s leading cycling journalists and writers. Previously the Features Editor of Procycling Magazine, widely regarded as the world’s most authoritative English-‐language cycling magazine, Daniel now is a full-‐time freelance journalist.
Forever Young: The Story of Adrian Doherty, Football’s Lost Genius by Oliver Kay Publication: June 2016, Quercus (UK & Commonwealth) Primary Agent: David Luxton All rights: Rebecca Winfield Adrian Doherty was not a typical footballer. For one thing, he was blessed with extraordinary talent. Those who played alongside and watched him in the Manchester United youth team in the early 1990s insist he was as good as Ryan Giggs -‐ possibly even better. Giggs, who played on the opposite wing, says he is inclined to agree. On his 17th birthday, Doherty was offered a five-‐year contract -‐ unprecedented for a United youngster at that time -‐ and told by Alex Ferguson that he was destined for stardom. But what followed over the next decade is a tale so mysterious, so shocking, so unusual, so amusing but ultimately so tragic, that you are left wondering how on earth it has been untold for so long. Oliver Kay is Chief Football Correspondent for The Times, and was recently shortlisted for “Football Journalist of the Year 2016” at the Sports Journalism Awards. Forever Young is his debut title.
Mister: The Men Who Gave the World the Game by Rory Smith Publication: April 2016, Simon & Schuster (UK & Commonwealth) Primary Agent: David Luxton All rights: Rebecca Winfield From its late-‐Victorian flowering in the mill towns of the northwest of England, football spread around the world with great speed. It was helped on its way by a series of missionaries who showed the rest of the planet the simple joys of the game. Even now, in many countries, the colloquial word for a football manager is not 'coach' or 'boss' but 'mister'. In Rory Smith's stunning new book Mister, he looks at the stories of these pioneers of the game, men who left this country to take football across the globe. Sometimes, they had been spurned in their own land, as coaching was often frowned upon in England in those days, where players were starved of the ball during the week to make them hungry for it on matchday. So it was that the inspirations behind the 'Mighty Magyars' of the 1950s, the Dutch of the 1970s or top clubs such as Barcelona came from these shores. England, without realising it, fired the very revolution that would remove its crown, and change football's history. This is the story of the men who taught the world to play and shaped its destiny. This is the story of the Misters. Rory Smith writes for The Times where he is one of their primary football writers. He worked with Rafa Benitez on his 2012 book Champions League Dreams (Headline) and also with Chris Anderson and David Sally on their bestselling The Numbers Game for Penguin. Ring of Fire: Liverpool FC in the 2000s – The Players’ Stories by Simon Hughes Publication: August 2016, Transworld (WEL) All rights: Rebecca Winfield FOREWORD BY STEVEN GERRARD In Ring of Fire, Simon Hughes meets some of the most colourful characters to have played for Liverpool Football Club during the 2000s. Through extensive interviews, Hughes delivers a rich portrait of one of the most iconic clubs in the world, and analyses the decade in which Liverpool FC recorded perhaps their most famous win of all time – the Champions League Final 2005, in Istanbul. Also by Simon Hughes: Men in White Suits: Liverpool FC in the 1990s – The Players’ Stories Red Machine: Liverpool FC in the 1980s – The Players’ Stories The World of Cycling According to G by Geraint Thomas Publication: November 2015, Quercus (UK & Commonwealth) Manuscript Available: October 2015 Primary Agent: David Luxton All rights: Rebecca Winfield Geraint Thomas MBE is a double Olympic gold medallist and multiple world champion who has been an indispensable part of Team Sky since its inception. A Tour de France veteran at 28, he has both completed the entire race with a fractured pelvis and been essential in piloting Chris Froome to the yellow jersey. Not your typical cycling book, this hugely entertaining title will be a warts and all insight into the life of a pro-‐cyclist, with great tales from the peloton, and also serve as a reminder to the weekend warrior that whilst we all hurt at times, cycling is an escape and an adventure -‐ something that puts a smile on your face and fire in the legs like nothing else.
Doctor Socrates by Andrew Downie Publication: February 2017, Simon & Schuster (UK & Commonwealth) All rights: Rebecca Winfield Socrates Brasileiro: a global footballing icon, and the captain of Brazil’s revered 1982 World Cup team. Astonishingly there has never been an English language biography of this much-‐loved player. Until now. Andrew Downie, Brazilian football correspondent for Reuters, is writing the biography of the man who was a philosopher, a doctor, a revolutionary, and a footballer. More than just a book about football, this story will focus on those aspects of Socrates’ personality that made him stand out so clearly from his peers.
Mourinho: Further Anatomy of a Winner by Patrick Barclay Publication: September 2015, Orion (UK&Commonwealth) All rights: Rebecca Winfield FULLY UPDATED WITH JOSE MOURINHO'S SENSATIONAL RETURN TO CHELSEA AND HIS CUP-‐DOUBLE WINNING SEASON IN 2014/2015 When Jose Mourinho realised as a teenager that he was never going to be a great player, he decided he was going to become the best coach in the world. From translator and assistant to Sir Bobby Robson at Barcelona to multiple league and Champions League-‐winning manager at Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Real Madrid and now Chelsea once again, Jose Mourinho's ascent has been rapid. FURTHER ANATOMY OF A WINNER is the definitive account of the life and psychology of one of the greatest football managers of all time. And with Chelsea’s huge international fan base (135m worldwide), this revised edition is sure to appeal to readers far and wide.
Matchdays: The Hidden Story of the Bundesliga by Ronald Reng Publication: April 2015, Simon & Schuster, (UK & Commonwealth) Sold: Germany (Piper), Poland (SQN) All Other Rights: Rebecca Winfield
Through the life story of Heinz Hoher, player, coach, manager, scout and sports director, Ronald Reng tells the dramatic story of the rise of the Bundesliga over the last fifty years. During that period, football has grown from a game where a club’s directors would join the players in their dressing room at half time, to today’s highly paid environment. Matchdays recreates the daily life of professional footballers from a different era. The German language edition of this book has already proved to be a massive bestseller and now it will be published in the UK by S&S. Reng’s previous book, “A Life Too Short” won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award in 2011 and has gone on to sell thousands of copies worldwide in many languages.
OTHER PROJECTS FROM DAVID LUXTON ASSOCIATES
Fifty Years of Hurt by Henry Winter Publication: June, 2016, Bantam Press All Rights: Bantam Press It has been Fifty Years of Hurt since Bobby Moore lifted the World Cup trophy at Wembley, and in this groundbreaking book, Henry Winter will address the state England are in on the golden anniversary of their greatest moment. Part lament, part anatomy of an obsession, both personal and collective, it analyses the truth behind the endless excuses, apportions the blame for the crimes against English football, but is also a search for hope and solutions.
1966: My World Cup Story by Bobby Charlton Publication: June 2016, Yellow Jersey Press All Rights: Random House What does it mean to be forever defined by one moment, unable to escape the hold it commands over you? In your own imagination? How does a life fully lived come back to one single instance, one day when you stood side-‐by-‐side with your best friends united in a single aim, in front of a watching nation? In 1966 England won the World Cup for the first – and quite possibly the last – time. Sir Bobby Charlton, England's greatest ever player, was there on the pitch. This is what he saw; this is what he heard; this is what he felt.
Endurance: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Emil Zatopek by Rick Broadbent Publication: April 2016, Wisden Sports Writing All Rights: Wisden Sports Writing In the summer of 1952 Zatopek became the king of the running world with an unprecedented distance treble at the Olympics in Helsinki. Together with his wife Dana, who won another gold medal in the javelin, they were the embodiment of sporting romance. Born on the same day, they were champions on the same day too. Yet in 1968 this affable but eccentric Czech solider was betrayed by his Communist paymasters and cast out into wilderness. With traces of 'Chariots of Fire' and Laura Hillenbrand's 'Unbroken', Endurance is both a wonderful love story and a landmark tale of hope and strength in the face of crushing opposition.
Kicking Off: How Women in Sport are Changing the Game by Sarah Shephard Publication: May 2016, Bloomsbury All Rights: Bloomsbury There's a battle being fought. It's raging on the sports fields, in the newsrooms and behind the scenes at every major broadcaster. Women in sport are fighting for equality with more vigour than ever, but are they breaking down the barriers that stand in their way? Sarah Shephard looks behind the headlines to see whether progress is really being made and tells the stories that can no longer be ignored. This candid and revealing book asks the questions at the forefront of the debate about women in sport. With contributions from women involved in sport at the highest level, including Chrissie Wellington, Maggie Alphonsi, Kelly Smith and Nicole Cooke, who reveal their personal experiences of being at the top of their game.