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DAVID LUXTON ASSOCIATES SPORTS HOTLIST 2015 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 muchloved 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. 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 procyclist, 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. 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 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. At the same time, he introduced new ideas on diet, fitness and professionalism, which many players believe extended their careers. Having won numerous trophies, and led the Invincibles to an unbeaten league season in 200304, Wenger then had to help the club through the next stage of their development when they moved from Highbury to the Emirates. 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 trophywinning squad, winning backtoback FA Cups in 2014 and 2015 that was admired by football fans everywhere.

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Page 1: DLA SPORTS HOTLIST 2015 · Jan!Ullrich:!The!Best!There!Never!Was!by!Daniel!Friebe! Publication:June!2016,!Pan!MacMillan!(UK!&!Commonwealth)! Primary!Agent:David!Luxton! Allrights:Rebecca

DAVID  LUXTON  ASSOCIATES    SPORTS  HOTLIST  2015  

 

                                   

         

                     

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.        

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.    

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    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.    At  the  same  time,  he  introduced  new  ideas  on  diet,  fitness  and  professionalism,  which  many  players  believe  extended  their  careers.  Having  won  numerous  trophies,  and  led  the  Invincibles  to  an  unbeaten  league  season  in  2003-­‐04,  Wenger  then  had  to  help  the  club  through  the  next  stage  of  their  development  when  they  moved  from  Highbury  to  the  Emirates.  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  everywhere.        

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Jan  Ullrich:  The  Best  There  Never  Was  by  Daniel  Friebe    Publication:  June  2016,  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.  Amongst  his  many  books,  he  has  collaborated  with  cycling  superstar,  Mark  Cavendish,  on  both  his  best-­‐selling  memoirs.  Friebe  is  also  the  co-­‐author,  with  Pete  Goding,  of  Mountain  High:  Europe’s  50  Greatest  Cycling  Climbs  and  Mountain  Higher  (Quercus).        

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.      

Forever  Boys:  The  Days  of  Citizens  and  Heroes  by  James  Lawton    Publication:  September  2015,  Wisden  Sports  Writing  All  Rights:  Rebecca  Winfield    Sometimes  you  love  a  football  team  not  only  for  their  strengths,  the  splendour  of  their  play  and  the  appealing  thrust  of  their  character,  but  also  the  haunting  possibility  that  their  best  hopes  may  never  be  fulfilled.  This  has  rarely  been  demonstrated  so  vividly  as  by  the  Manchester  City  team  who  briefly,  but  unforgettably,  illuminated  the  late  sixties.  And  no  one  was  more  caught  up  in  their  struggles  and  their  triumphs  than  James  Lawton,  a  young  sportswriter  starting  out  on  a  career  that  would  take  him  to  all  the  great  events  of  world  sport.  Yet  still,  50  years  after  Joe  Mercer  and  Malcolm  Allison  began  to  shape  the  brilliant  team,  he  counts  watching  their  rise  to  glory  as  one  of  the  most  exciting  times  of  his  professional  life.  Francis  Lee,  Colin  Bell,  Mike  Summerbee  -­‐  these  players  loomed  large  over  the  game  as  they  charged  at  the  peaks  of  English  football,  and  today  evoke  a  period  of  the  sport's  history  that  seems  distant  and  unknowable,  hard  to  see  except  through  the  rose-­‐tinted  gloss  of  nostalgia.  This,  though,  is  not  just  the  story  of  one  team,  but  a  broader  one  of  how  sport  can  sometimes  so  perfectly  mirror  the  exaltation  and  the  despair  of  the  real  world,  how  it  carries  those  who  do  it,  and  sometimes  even  those  who  merely  see  it,  to  moments  that  will  claim  a  permanent  place  in  their  hearts.    

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 Ring  of  Fire:  Liverpool  FC  in  the  2000s  –  The  Players’  Stories  by  Simon  Hughes    Publication:  August  2016,  Transworld  (WEL)  All  rights:  Rebecca  Winfield    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      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    For  a  century,  Britain  exported  dozens  of  coaches  to  every  corner  of  the  globe.  Some  of  them  became  famous:  men  like  Jimmy  Hogan,  the  grandfather  of  European  football,  Fred  Pentland,  revered   in  Bilbao  and  Barcelona,  and  George  Raynor,  who  almost  guided  Sweden  the  very  zenith  of  the  game.  Others  toiled  in  obscurity,  working  in  Uganda  and  Iran  and  Colombia,  taking  England’s  gift  to  the  planet,  honing  skills,  improving  ideas.  These  were  not  the  men  who  gifted  football  to  the  world,  but  they  were  the  teachers  and  the  pioneers  who  taught  the  planet  how  best  to  play.  This  is  their  story,  but  it  is  also  a  story  of  how  their  breed  died,  how  the  world  fell  in  love  with  the  game  but  lost  its  affection  for  its  homeland.    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.      The  Medal  Factory  by  Owen  Slot  with  Simon  Timson  &  Chelsea  Warr    Publication:  Spring  2017,  Ebury  (UK  &  Commonwealth)  Primary  Agent:  David  Luxton  All  rights:  Rebecca  Winfield    At  the  London  Olympics,  Team  GB  won  65  medals.  At  the  London  Paralympics,  they  won  120.  The  medal  count  defied  public  expectation,  Great  Britain  had  over-­‐delivered,  London  2012  was  viewed  as  the  absolute  peak  of  British  Olympic  success.   Once  the  dust  had  settled,  the  question  was  asked:  what  next?  At  UK  Sport,  the  central  brains  trust  for  success  planning,  the  answer  was:  we’ll  deliver  more.  The  official  target:  66  and  121.  This  book  is  the  story  of  66  and  121.  This  book  is  about  success,  planning  success  and  sustaining  success.     Owen  Slot  is  chief  sports  reporter  on  The  Times.  He  has  twice  been  named  Sports  Feature  Writer  of  the  Year  and  three  times  Sports  News  Reporter  of  the  Year.  Simon  Timson  and  Chelsea  Warr  are  director  and  co-­‐director  of  UK  Sport.  Their  aim  is  to  make  Team  GB  the  first  nation  to  become  more  successful  hosting  the  Olympics,  in  terms  of  medals  won,  in  Rio  2016.      

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.    

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OTHER  PROJECTS  FROM  DAVID  LUXTON  ASSOCIATES    

                     

                         

                 

The  Bolt  Supremacy:  Usain  Bolt  and  the  Jamaican  Sprinting  Phenomenon  by  Richard  Moore    Publication:  July,  2015,  Yellow  Jersey  Press    All  Rights:  Random  House    He   is   the   most   compelling   sportsman   on   the   planet,  and   the   central   figure   in   a   remarkable   story   of  collective   sporting   success.   Yet   what   do   we   know,  really,  of  Usain  Bolt  and  his  fellow  Jamaican  sprinters?  The  Bolt  Supremacy  will  combine  biography,  reportage  and   investigation   to   tell   the   story   of   Bolt   and   the  Jamaican   sprinters,   and   to   peel   away   some   of   the  layers   of  mystery,   intrigue   and   suspicion   around   this  modern  sporting  phenomenon.      

Das  Reboot:  How  German  Football  Reinvented  Itself  and  Conquered  the  World  by  Raphael  Honigstein    Publication:  September  2015,  Yellow  Jersey  Press    All  Rights:  Random  House      In   this   account   of   the   history   and   rise   of   German  football,   Honigstein   looks   at   the   key   periods   in  Germany’s   footballing   past   which   has   lead   to   the  recent  successes  of  Bayern  Munich  in  their  Champions  League   victory,   and  Germany   in   the  World  Cup  2014.  Honigstein   will   examine   events   both   on   and   off   the  field   to   pinpoint   exactly   ‘how   Germany   got   its   game  on’.      

The  Racer  by  David  Millar    Publication:  October  2015,  Yellow  Jersey  Press    All  Rights:  Random  House      From  the  writer  of  the  bestselling,  Racing  Through  the  Dark,  David  Millar  offers  us  a  unique  insight  into  the  mind  of  a  professional  cyclist  during  his  last  year  before  retirement.  Over  the  course  of  a  season  on  the  Pro  Tour,  Millar  puts  us  in  touch  with  the  sights,  smells  and  sounds  of  the  sport  -­‐-­‐  the  barked  instructions  of  a  road  captain  in  a  sprint  chain,  the  silence  of  a  solo  training  ride.  This  is  a  book  about  youth  and  age,  fresh-­‐faced  excitement  and  hard-­‐earned  experience.  It  is  a  love  letter  to  cycling.    

Commitment:  My  Autobiography  by  Didier  Drogba    Publication:  November  2015,  Hodder  &  Stoughton  All  Rights:  Hodder  &  Stoughton    This  is  the  story  of  one  of  the  most  recognisable  and  successful  players  in  world  football.  Didier  Drogba  is  renowned  for  his  heading  ability,  sharp  shooting  and  sheer  strength.  He  has  played  for  his  native  Ivory  Coast  and  for  clubs  in  France,  China  and  Turkey,  but  it  is  as  a  Chelsea  striker  that  he  is  best  known.  His  feats  with  Chelsea  have  made  him  a  cult  hero  among  supporters.  Go  behind  the  scenes  at  Stamford  Bridge  and  find  out  about  life  on  and  off  the  field  for  this  humble  Chelsea  hero.