Books by Conor Niland
“Conor was on the tennis circuit. He rubbed shoulders with the greats of the game, like Roger Federer and so on, but he never quite made it. He had his moments in the spotlight, but it’s a grinding life being on the lower rungs. If you know somebody who’s got a kid who’s thinking of making tennis their career, they should read this book first because it’s not fun…There’s humour in the book, a lot of self-deprecation and insight. He’s quite open and honest. That’s one of the key things that the judging panel liked about it. He doesn’t hide anything. He clearly loves his family a lot, but they do come over as quite pushy and he accepts that you won’t achieve anything in individual sport without a pushy parent.” Read more...
The Best Sports Books of 2024: The William Hill Award
Alyson Rudd, Journalist
Interviews where books by Conor Niland were recommended
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Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
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How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
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Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
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The Racket
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Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Award-Winning Memoirs of 2024
Award-Winning Memoirs of 2024
Whether you fancy a quality sports autobiography or an artfully-illustrated graphic narrative, we’ve got suggestions for you. Here, we’ve put together a concise round-up of the award-winning memoirs of 2024 to help you find highly-acclaimed new books you might otherwise have missed.
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Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
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Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
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A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
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France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
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The Racket
by Conor Niland
10 Award-Winning Nonfiction Books of 2024
10 Award-Winning Nonfiction Books of 2024
The nonfiction book prizes we cover at Five Books are a great way to keep up with books on important subjects that are written in an accessible and engaging way. We keep an eye on prizes in a range of nonfiction genres—including history, politics, business, science, sports and general nonfiction.
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The Racket
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These Heavy Black Bones
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When I Passed the Statue of Liberty I Became Black
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Unique: A Memoir
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Munichs
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My Beautiful Sisters: A Story of Courage, Hope and the Afghan Women’s Football Team
by Khalida Popal
The Best Sports Books of 2024: The William Hill Award, recommended by Alyson Rudd
The Best Sports Books of 2024: The William Hill Award, recommended by Alyson Rudd
Good sports writing should appeal not only to fans but also to readers with no special connection to a sport, says Alyson Rudd, chair of the judging panel of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. She talks us through the six excellent books that made the 2024 shortlist, from life on the lower rungs of the tennis circuit to women’s football in Afghanistan.
