Duncan Hamilton (journalist)
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Duncan Hamilton (born December 1958) is a British author and newspaper journalist and three-time winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award.
Life and career
Hamilton was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and his family moved to Nottinghamshire when he was four.[1]
Hamilton was the Nottingham Evening PostTemplate:'s Nottingham Forest reporter during the club's glory years and covered both of Forest's victorious European Cup campaigns (1979 and 1980) for the newspaper. During his time covering Forest, Hamilton developed a close, if at times testy, relationship with the club's outspoken manager, Brian Clough. He won his first William Hill award with the 2007 memoir Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years With Brian Clough,[2] an account of his time at the Nottingham Evening Post where he worked for more than 20 years.[3][4] The book also won the Best Football Book category of the 2008 British Sports Book Awards.[5]
In Provided You Don't Kiss Me, Hamilton claims he bonded with Clough after the manager learned he, like Clough, was from the north-east of England. He provides an eyewitness account of the relationship between Clough and his assistant, Peter Taylor, and charts Clough's demise and descent into alcoholism. FHM called the book a "superb portrait of the conflicted, contradictory man [that] doesn't duck his uglier aspects."[6] It quickly became a bestseller and won the William Hill award against strong competition.[7] After winning the £18,000 first prize, Hamilton wrote a column for the Yorkshire Post, where he was a deputy editor, expressing his surprise and delight at the book's success.
In 2009, Hamilton won a second William Hill award for Harold Larwood,[8][9] a biography of the fast bowler Harold Larwood, who was a protagonist in the controversial "Bodyline" series between Australia and England in 1932-33. The book also won the Best Biography category of the 2010 British Sports Book Awards[10] and was named the Wisden Book of the Year. In 2019 he won his third William Hill award for The Great Romantic: Cricket and the Golden Age of Neville Cardus.[11]
After 32 years as a newspaper journalist in Nottingham and Leeds, Hamilton now works as a freelance, mostly concentrating on writing his books. He and his wife Mandy live in the village of Menston in West Yorkshire.[1]
Books
- Nottingham Forest FC: Thirty Great Years in Photographs, 1988 Template:ISBN
- Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough, 2007 Template:ISBN
- Sweet Summers: The Classic Cricket Writing of JM Kilburn, 2008 Template:ISBN (edited)
- Fire and Ashes, 2009 Template:ISBN
- Harold Larwood, 2009 Template:ISBN
- Old Big 'ead: The Wit and Wisdom of Brian Clough, 2009 Template:ISBN (edited)
- A Last English Summer, 2010 Template:ISBN
- The Unreliable Life of Harry the Valet: The Great Victorian Jewel Thief, 2011 Template:ISBN
- Wisden on Yorkshire: An Anthology, 2011 Template:ISBN (edited)
- The Footballer Who Could Fly: Living in My Father's Black and White World, 2012 Template:ISBN
- Immortal: The Biography of George Best, 2013 Template:ISBN
- For the Glory: The Life of Eric Liddell, 2016 Template:ISBN
- A Clear Blue Sky, 2017 Template:ISBN (with Jonny Bairstow)
- The Kings of Summer: How Cricket's 2016 County Championship Came down to the Very Last Match of the Season, 2017 Template:ISBN
- Going to the Match: The Passion for Football, 2019 Template:ISBN
- The Great Romantic: Cricket and the Golden Age of Neville Cardus, 2019 Template:ISBN
- One Long and Beautiful Summer: A Short Elegy for Red-Ball Cricket, 2020 Template:ISBN
References
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