The Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award

Past Winners

2023 Nicholas Brookes - An Island's Eleven

2022 - David Woodhouse - Who Only Cricket Know

2021 - Ashley Gray - The Unforgiven Mercenaries or Missionaries?

2020 Joint Winners - Duncan Hamilton - 'The Great Romantic' & Christopher Sandford - 'The Final Innings'

2019 - Steve Smith’s Men: Behind Australian Cricket’s Fall by Geoff Lemon 

2018 - Connie: The Marvellous Life of Learie Constantine by Harry Pearson 

2017 - A Beautiful Game; My Love Affair with Cricket by Mark Nicholas 

2016 - Fire in Babylon by Simon Lister

2015 - Field of Shadows : The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 by Dan Waddell

2014 - The Great Tamasha : Cricket, Corruption and The Turbulent Rise of Modern India by James Astill

2013 - On Warne by Gideon Haigh

2012 - Fred Trueman, the authorised biography by Chris Waters

2011 - Slipless in Settle by Harry Pearson

2010 - Didcot and the Demon by Anthony Gibson

2009 - Life Beyond the Airing Cupboard by John Barclay

[Recording practice changed with the 2009 Award which was for books published in 2008]

2007 - George Lohmann - Pioneer Professional  by Keith Booth

2006 - Cricket's Burning Passion, Ivo Bligh and the Story of the Ashes by Scyld Berry and Rupert Peploe 

2005 - Red Shirts and Roses by Eric Midwinter

2004 - Jim: The Life of E.W. Swanton by David Rayvern Allen

2003 - The Ross Gregory Story by David Frith

2002 - A Corner of a Foreign Field:  The Indian History of a British Sport by Ramachandra Guha

2001 - At the Heart of English Cricket: The Life and Memories of Geoffrey Howard by Stephen Chalke

2000 - Mystery Spinner: The Story of Jack Iverson by Gideon Haigh

1999 - The Social History of English Cricket by Sir Derek Birley

1998 - W.G.Grace : A Life by Simon Rae

Past Winners (continued)

1998 - The Chronicle of W.G. by J R Webber

1997 - The Glory Days of Cricket: The Extraordinary Story of Broadhalfpenny Down by Ashley Mote

1996 - Bradman: An Australian Hero by Charles Williams

1995 - David Gower: A Man Out of Time by Rob Steen

1994 - Arlott: The Authorised Biography by David Rayvern Allen

1993 - Beyond Bat and Ball by David Foot

1992 - England Expects: A Biography of Ken Barrington by Mark Peel

1991 - Herbert Sutcliffe: Cricket Maestro by Alan Hill

1990 - History of Indian Cricket by Mihir Bose

1989  - A La Recherche du Cricket Perdu by Simon Barnes

1988 - The Players: A Social History of the Professional Cricketer by Ric Sissons

1987 - Pageant of Cricket by David Frith

1986 - Hedley Verity: A Portrait of a Cricketer by Alan Hill

1985 - The Art of Captaincy by Mike Brearley

1984 - C.B.: The Life of Charles Burgess Fry by Clive Ellis

1983 - Australian Cricket: The Game and the Players by Jack Pollard

1982 - Phoenix from the Ashes by Mike Brearley

1981 - P.G.H.Fender: A Biography by Richard Streeton

1980 - Barclay's World of Cricket by E W Swanton and John Woodcock

1979 - The Best Loved Game by Geoffrey Moorhouse

1978 - Sir Donald Bradman: A Biography by Irving Rosenwater

1977 - Spinner's Yarn by Ian Peebles

1976 - On Top Down Under: Australia's Cricket Captains by Ray Robinson

1975 - Learie Constantine by Gerald Howat

1974 - The Story of Warwickshire Cricket - 1882-1972 by Leslie Duckworth

1973 - Sort of a Cricket Person by E W Swanton

1972 - Thanks to Cricket by J M Kilburn

1971 - Nottinghamshire Cricketers 1821-1914 by Peter Wynne-Thomas

1970 - My Dear Victorious Stod: A Biography of A.E. Stoddart by David Frith