For the Glory

For the Glory is wonderful: painstakingly researched, intelligently structured and written with flair. In an Olympic year, it is fitting that an Olympic tale should be the most uplifting. * Daily Telegraph, Sports Books of the Year *Eric Liddell deserves a definitive biography. This is it. * Sunday Times, Sports Books of the Year *Absorbing… in an age when sport is riddled with corruption, vanity and petty rage, Liddell’s story is timely. However, the real theme is faith and providence rather than fame and proving oneself. A story about religious belief could be dry fare, but Liddell is too good a subject and Hamilton too deft a guide to let that happen… He is one of the great sportsmen of the 20th century purely because he knew sport’s place. * The Times *Eric Liddell’s athletic prowess was immortalised in Chariots of Fire. But Duncan Hamilton offers a more detailed and equally engrossing insight into one of Britain’s great sporting heroes in this compelling new biography. For the Glory is in turn triumphant, harrowing, moving yet ultimately uplifting. It also cements the status of Hamilton, twice-winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, as the doyen of biographical sports writing. * Daily Express *Duncan Hamilton’s compelling biography puts flesh on the legend and paints a vivid picture of not only a great athlete, but also a very special human being. * Daily Mail, Book of the Week *Superb… Liddell was a saint whose death was the result of following an exemplary life. It is usually an insult to describe a work as hagiography but in Liddell’s case there may be no other way to tell his story. * Sunday Telegraph *While its descriptions of sporting greatness are worth savouring, For the Glory is most of all an inspiring portrait of a good man. Duncan Hamilton’s achievement is to disarm cynics in his measured and memorable account. He brings to life an unparalleled athlete, but more importantly, an inspirational man. * TLS *The triumph of Duncan Hamilton’s moving, inspiring book is not that it covers brilliantly an exhilarating, unlikely sporting career. It does all this, of course, as Hamilton has fine form, being a double winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. His finer achievement though, is to give a sense of a good man. It is the most sincere of tributes. Hamilton makes Liddell unforgettable for what he did, how he lived and how he loved. * The Herald *Gripping… an uplifting story of a truly decent man, his athletic prowess and his unwavering faith. Read it. * Oldham Evening Chronicle *Hamilton sets out to reveal the man behind the movie (and that indelible song) and he certainly succeeds. * Washington Post *

Duncan Hamilton is the author of Provided You Don’t Kiss Me- 20 Years with Brian Clough which won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year for 2007. In 2009, he was awarded the William Hill again, for Harold Larwood, as well as winning the prestigious Wisden Book of the Year for 2009 and Biography of the Year at the 2010 British Sports Book Awards. He lives in the Yorkshire Dales.

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