CRUCIBLE BOOK OFF TO A FLYER IN SHEFFIELD

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Pitch have enabled me to write in the ways I enjoy most. Their production support is superb, delivering eye-catching designs, attentive proof-reading, energetic marketing and helpful advice.

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Pitch saw the potential in my story, used their expertise to polish it, published it and helped inspire thousands around the world to get into triathlon.

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Pitch will take a chance on books that other publishers won't and realise that interest in football extends beyond the Premier League and the top 20 countries in the FIFA rankings.

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Pitch took our original concept and further enhanced it, using their knowledge, experience and expertise, and helped make Got, Not Got one of the football books of the year for 2011.

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In the highly competitive world of sport publishing,
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25 Apr

CRUCIBLE BOOK OFF TO A FLYER IN SHEFFIELD

Leading snooker writer Hector Nunns makes his selection of the greatest matches ever played in the famous amphitheatre. With exclusive contributions from the players involved – from the heroes of the early years through to the household names of today – The Crucible’s Greatest Matches celebrates 40 years of snooker at its greatest venue.

The book has met with a tide of positive press during the World Championships in Sheffield. The Sun and the Express have both carried features, World Snooker kindly gave away a prize of the book to their 100k plus followers @WorldSnooker1 – and Hector made a guest appearance on talkSPORT’s Hawsksbee & Jacobs show.

Click here for more information, or to read a sample from The Crucible’s Greatest Matches

Click here to hear Hector Nunns talking Crucible greats with H&J

The Crucible’s Greatest Matches throws a spotlight on all-time classic matches involving Cliff Thorburn, Terry Griffiths and Ken Doherty, the much-missed Alex Higgins and Paul Hunter – and of course includes the momentous 1985 black-ball final between Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis.

A celebration of 40 years of great matches at the iconic Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, home of snooker’s World Championship since 1977 – featuring first-hand accounts from those involved. The Crucible’s Greatest Matches highlights:

The famous amphitheatre’s most dramatic contest, the 1985 black-ball final won by Dennis Taylor against Steve Davis
The two most agonising final losses for People’s Champion Jimmy ‘Whirlwind’ White at the hands of his Sheffield nemesis, Scotland’s Stephen Hendry
The fabled 1982 semi-final between a young White and his boyhood idol Alex Higgins, with some brilliance from the ‘Hurricane’ saving his skin
Cliff Thorburn’s Crucible first, a 147 maximum break against Terry Griffiths in an epic encounter that finished at 3.51am
‘Rocket’ Ronnie O’Sullivan’s excruciating description of his total collapse in 2005 when faced with a pedestrian Peter Ebdon display that sparked a ‘cheat’ storm for slow play
A foreword by and contributions from World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn, recounting his own Crucible memories and selecting his ‘greatest match’
Many other classics, featuring O’Sullivan, Hendry, the late Paul Hunter, Ken Doherty, Neil Robertson, Ding Junhui and Shaun Murphy