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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 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.
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.
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.
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.