Answered Prayers: England and the 1966 World Cup
Duncan Hamilton
Aug 2023 · riverrun · Narrated by Jonathan Firth
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Written by our greatest sportswriter, three time winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, Duncan Hamilton.
Answered Prayers is a definitive history of the most famous event in British sporting, the triumph of the 1966 England world cup football team and the disastrous effect that victory had on the game.
PRAISE FOR DUNCAN HAMILTON
'Hamilton has a perceptively humane understanding of men for whom football was never just a game' Guardian
'A marriage of prose and detail so fine and fastidious that it takes the breath away' Independent
'Justifiably prize-winning' Mail on Sunday
(P) 2023 Quercus Editions Limited
Answered Prayers is a definitive history of the most famous event in British sporting, the triumph of the 1966 England world cup football team and the disastrous effect that victory had on the game.
PRAISE FOR DUNCAN HAMILTON
'Hamilton has a perceptively humane understanding of men for whom football was never just a game' Guardian
'A marriage of prose and detail so fine and fastidious that it takes the breath away' Independent
'Justifiably prize-winning' Mail on Sunday
(P) 2023 Quercus Editions Limited
About the author
Duncan Hamilton has won three William Hill Sports Book of the Year Prizes. He has been nominated on a further four occasions. He has also claimed two British Sports Book Awards and is the first writer to have won the Wisden Cricket Book of the Year on three occasions. His biography of the Chariots of Fire runner Eric Liddell, For the Glory, was a New York Times bestseller. He most recently collaborated with Jonny Bairstow on the cricketer's autobiography, A Clear Blue Sky.
He lives at the foot of the Yorkshire Dales.
He lives at the foot of the Yorkshire Dales.
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