Beryl - WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
Jeremy Wilson
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Beschreibung
Winner of the Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year 2023
Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2022
THE TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SPORTS BOOK OF 2022
A WATERSTONES BEST SPORTS BOOK OF 2022
'A marvellous book' Maxine Peake
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. Practically invincible in time trials, Burton - also known as BB - finished as Best All-Rounder for 25 years and broke the record for the '12-hour' endurance race; an achievement unrivalled to this day. She won multiple world titles, but her achievements were limited by discrimination from the cycling authorities. Yet she carried on winning, beating men and - infamously - competing against her own daughter, whilst working full-time on a Yorkshire farm and running a household.
With previously unseen material and through extensive interviews with family, friends, rivals and fellow sporting giants, Jeremy Wilson peels back the layers to reveal one of the most overlooked, yet compelling characters in cycling history.
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Quite simply a Tour de Force
Obsessed by Beryl. This is an incredible book
This is not a hagiography, and all the better for it. Wilson brings her personality to life, faults and all. Meticulously researched. Compelling
One of the greatest figures in the history of British sport.
I loved it, as everyone else has [and] recommend people get it, read it cover to cover and be amazed by the life of Beryl Burton.
Subtle, full of insight, extensively researched and a joy to read
Absolutely extraordinary. I feel like we ought to have a statue to her
An incredible story about one of the greatest cyclists of all time
Jeremy Wilson brings alive this extraordinary woman's achievements (and problems, too - she wasn'
Ludicrously ahead of her time. Ruthless, relentless, brilliant, belligerent - and quite possibly the greatest Olympian Britain never had. What a story.
Britain's greatest ever cyclist is given the literary treatment she so richly deserves in Wilson'
Remarkable
<i>Beryl</i> is a worthy winner of the award, because it charts the most incredible of sporting endeavours and gradually reveals Burton to be both admirable and troubling ... it is not a book just for cycling enthusiasts. Burton would have stormed the Olympics had it allowed female cyclists to compete, and her story demanded the attention to detail that Wilson affords it.
<i>The Telegraph</i> chief sports writer Jeremy Wilson set out to learn more about Beryl Burton and at the end of a long investigative odyssey ended up convinced that Burton was the greatest athlete this country has ever produced. Who are we to argue?
To my mortification, I had not heard of Beryl Burton, so pretty much all the material in this was new to me. The subtitle - <i> In Search of Britain'
Jeremy Wilson finds the human heart of a story that gets more extraordinary as a unique athlete recedes into history. Very highly recommended.
I had never realised the longevity and scale of achievement. I'
A beacon is a guiding light, or a warning signal... a fire in a high place. Beryl Burton was, and is, all of those things. Her flame burns all the brighter thanks to Jeremy'
<i>Beryl was a woman ahead of her time, she was an incredible athlete with an inspirational mindset, and we are only left to imagine what she would have achieved given the same opportunities as the women'
A fascinating book ... brilliant story [and] definitely well worth checking out. There's been many plaudits for Jeremy'
Wilson'
A story with the ingredients that Hollywood would recognise ... The least publicised, least rewarded great woman athlete ever to be disregarded by her own country
The DiMaggio, the Muhammad Ali ... of British cycling.
The subtitle may not even be hyperbolic. Beryl Burton, an almost forgotten amateur cyclist who worked on a rhubarb farm in Yorkshire, was not simply the undisputed ruler of British women's cycling for 25 years, but also broke the men'
A superb book about someone who was great before her time
What a story Wilson has uncovered. No one in the history of sport can have worked with quite the self-sacrificing single-mindedness ... a woman of thermonuclear levels of competitiveness
Charts the incredible story of cyclist Beryl Burton, who set a world record in 1967 and was Britain'
This is an inspirational story that just had to be told. There are few athletes, male or female, that had the success and longevity of Beryl Burton - but for too long her name and achievements have remained in the shadows. No longer! This fabulous book brings the person and her phenomenal, groundbreaking achievements to light - I couldn'
Hands up if, like me, you had never heard of Beryl Burton. Shame on us. The truth is she was a cycling phenomenon [and] ferociously competitive Yorkshire girl, who swept the board in all the various British national championships. Jeremy Wilson brings alive this extraordinary woman's achievements (and problems, too - she wasn'
Jeremy Wilson provides a convincing case in his tribute to this elusive and remarkable figure
My 97-year-old mother-in-law has no interest in cycling but picked it up from our kitchen table, took it home, and loved it!
I simply cannot exaggerate how bloody great this book is and how inspiring Beryl'
A long overdue and remarkable biography of a remarkable cyclist
Impressively thorough ... worth every page
A beautiful book that tells us not just what she did, but who she truly was.
An incredible story about one of the nation's greatest-ever athletes that you probably haven'
The fascinating [and] extraordinary story of Yorkshire'
A marvellous book. Gives a real insight into Beryl and the times. For the first time I feel like I really know her and questions have been answered. So wonderfully researched, so many things I didn'
The scale of unsung achievement is awe-inspiring
The most comprehensive chronicle of its kind
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