Beryl - WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023: In Search of Britain's Greatest Athlete, Beryl Burton

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To my mortification, I had not heard of Beryl Burton, so pretty much all the material in this was new to me. Fotheringham does a great job of evoking an era before sportives, mass-sponsorship and cheap overseas travel.

TT national titles: 18 x 100miles, 23 x 50miles, 26 x 25miles and won the TT BBAR in 25 consecutive years from 1959-1983.By wading into the weeds of her complicated life before and after her accident, Galer leaves readers with a complex portrait of a woman who defied and challenged gender and disability norms of her time, paving the way for disability justice. cc * A superb book about someone who was great before her time * Pez Cycling News * A long overdue and remarkable biography of a remarkable cyclist -- The New European * Charlie Connelly * The fascinating [and] extraordinary story of Yorkshire's very own . Cyclist Beryl Burton dominated her sport much as her male contemporary Eddy Merckx, with a longevity that surpasses sporting legends like Muhammad Ali and Serena Williams. A panel of judges from the world of sports and journalism, chaired by author and journalist Alyson Rudd, concluded a four-month judging process, whittling a record 158 entries down to the winning book. At a time when the predominant image of people with disabilities was just starting to shift out of asylums, hospitals, and the dark places where they had been relegated for so long, Beryl Potter laid the foundation for the inclusion movement in Canada.

AllThatSheCarried by Tiya Miles is an eye-opening social history of love and resilience, and an insightful testament to the people who are left out of the archives.Alistair Brownlee, author of Relentless: Secrets of the Sporting Elite and double Olympic champion The scale of unsung achievement is awe-inspiring -- Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, 11 times Paralympic champion Jeremy Wilson finds the human heart of a story that gets more extraordinary as a unique athlete recedes into history. Her daughter was one of the people interviewed for the book and while she isn’t resentful (or not much) you can certainly tell she did not have a good relationship with her mother. Sports Books of the Year * Daily Mail * I had never realised the longevity and scale of achievement. Since our earliest beginnings, every documented society has gathered to perform elaborate rites and ceremonies - from mass worship to body modification - yet ritual poses a deep paradox: why do we give the utmost importance to otherwise pointless activities? With much of the action taking place during early mornings spent barreling down anonymous A-roads, it’s a culture that still ticks steadily beneath the surface of British cycling.