28,870
Total volume of Guenther Steiner’s Surviving to Drive
2024 Sport biography & autobiography The word on a summer of sport
more than 113,000 copies since 2017, and strategist Bernie Collins’ How to Win a Grand Prix, which hit shelves in May. Rugby coach Kevin Sinfield,
who raised money for charity by running with his recently deceased friend Rob Burrow, is currently in second place with The Extra Mile—the number one title for 2023 across these subcategories. Too Many Reasons to Live by Burrow, who was laid to rest on 7th July, also appears in the chart. Their friendship inspired a children’s book called With You Every Step, co-authored by the pair, that has sold 57,201 copies to date. European history
makes an interesting left-field appearance in the chart in The Tennis Champion Who Escaped the Nazis by Felice Hardy and The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown, combining readers’ interests in both sport and 1930s Germany. The biggest surprise
Title
1 Surviving to Drive* 2 The Extra Mile*
4 How to Win a Grand Prix* 5 Hooked
In the spotlight… top scorers for 2024
RONNIE O’SULLIVAN: AN UNBREAKABLE RUN
It’s past half-time for 2024 and current value rests at an uninspiring £3.4m with a humble 301,261 copies sold
GOING THE EXTRA MILE Author
Guenther Steiner Kevin Sinfield
3 Kammy: My Unbelievable Life* Chris Kamara Bernie Collins Paul Merson Rob Burrow Stuart Broad
6 Too Many Reasons to Live* 7 Broadly Speaking* 11 Sí, Señor*
8 Becky Lynch: the Man* 12 Lioness*
Roberto Firmino Rebecca Quin
Imprint Penguin Penguin
Macmillan Quercus Headline Pan
Hodder Quercus Sphere
9 What I Talk About... Running* H Murakami (P Gabriel) Vintage 10 The Tennis Champion... the Nazis Felice Hardy Beth Mead
Ad Lib Seven Dials
13 How to Build a Car 14 There Is No Wall 15 Loose Head
16 When Fury Takes Over* 17 The Boys in The Boat 18 Unbreakable* 19 Behind the Mask
Adrian Newey Allie Bailey Joe Marler John Fury
ISBN (+978) Volume 1529177480 28,870 1804942758 14,166 1035023844 1529437591 1472282569 1035044979 1399729345 1529435276 1408732342 0099526155 1802471199 1399611688
HarperCollins 0008196806 Vertebrate Ebury
Macmillan
Daniel James Brown Pan Ronnie O’Sullivan Tyson Fury
20 Alex Ferguson: My Autobiog... Alex Ferguson
TheBookseller.com
Seven Dials Arrow
Hodder
1839812187 1529107531 1035014057 1447210986 1399610018 1787465060 0340919408
9,484 8,300 8,292 8,107 7,792 5,148 4,258 4,182 4,178 3,991 2,902 2,516 2,504 2,449 2,375 2,273 1,784 1,767
KEVIN SINFIELD:
of all though might be veteran snooker player Ronnie O’Sullivan’s autobiography Unbreakable, which was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year last year. Sneaking into 20th place is Alex
Ferguson’s autobiography. When the hardback edition was released in October 2013, it shot straight to the top of the sports charts and claimed the number one spot among biographies that year with more than 800,000 copies sold. That year, the combined subcat- egories hit a TCM value of £24.7m, largely supported by Ferguson. A decade earlier in 2003, value
reached an all-time high of £28.8m when David Beckham’s My Side was on top. Annual results have fluctuated over the past two decades, but value through the TCM has been on the low side for the past three years in a row, hovering around the £12.5m-mark,
and—in terms of units sold—volume has not cracked 1.5 million copies since 2015. It’s past half-time for 2024 and
current value rests at an uninspir- ing £3.4m with a humble 301,261 copies sold, but there’s still plenty of time on the clock to make up the difference on the scoreboard.
Date Range 29 weeks ending 13th July 2024 Source Nielsen * Combined editions
12,464 copies sold
Formula One 2024 9781802797114
11,639 copies sold
Playfair Cricket Annual 2024 9781035411771
7,342 copies sold
Wimbledon: A Personal History 9781529927399
5,104 copies sold
SAS Survival Guide: How to Survive in the Wild, on Land or Sea 9780008133788
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