WINNERS 2025

Overall Sports Book of the Year

My Beautiful Sisters

by Khalida Popal

My Beautiful Sisters is a powerful memoir of survival, sisterhood and resistance in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Former football captain Khalida Popal recounts her fight for women’s rights in sport, her exile and the daring international effort to rescue her teammates after Kabul’s fall. A story of courage, teamwork and hope.

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