There are six GAA books on the longlist for the eir Sports Book of the Year award.

Kieran Donaghy's autobiography, 'What Do You Think of That?', Alan O'Mara's 'The Best is Yet to Come', 'Hand on Heart' by Ken McGrath & Michael Moynihan, John Scally's 'Blood, Sweat, Triumph and Tears', 'The Heart and Soul of Kerry Football' by Weeshie Fogarty and 'Out Of Control - Cathal McCarron with Christy O'Connor' are all in the running for the prestigious prize.

Twenty nominations will vie to succeed the inaugural winner of the award - 'Dub Sub Confidential' by former Dublin goalkeeper John Leonard.

The field will be shortlisted to six candidates on November 28th and the winner will be announced in early December.

The longlist is:

- Win or Learn: John Kavanagh - Paul Dollery

- The Battle: Paul O'Connell - Paul O'Connell

- Blood, Sweat & McAteer - Jason McAteer

- The Best is Yet to Come - Alan O'Mara

- Spirit of '58 - Evan Marshall

- Full Throttle - Liam Beckett

- Coolmore Stud - Alan Conway

- Jack Charlton: The Authorised Biography - Colin Young

- My Life In Rugby - Donal Lenihan

- Front Up, Rise Up - Gerry Thornley

- The Heart and Soul of Kerry Football - Weeshie Fogarty

- Rob Heffernan's autobiography, Walking Tall - Rob Heffernan

- Everything to Play For: 99 Poems about Sport - John McAuliffe

- Out Of Control - Cathal McCarron with Christy O'Connor

- What do you think of that? - Kieran Donaghy

- Retired: What happens to footballers when the game's up? - Alan Gernon

- Blood, sweat, triumph and tears - John Scally

- Hand on Heart - Ken McGrath & Michael Moynihan

- Second City - Neal Horgan

- Man Tests - The misadventures of an endurance fanatic

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