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Jimmy Anderson: Finding the Edge

The Autobiography

Jimmy Anderson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bonnier Books Ltd

Published:7th Nov '24

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The first full autobiography of England's Jimmy Anderson, one of the greatest cricketers of all time.

THIS AUTUMN'S MUST-HAVE AUTOBIOGRAPHY FROM CRICKET LEGEND, JIMMY ANDERSON

The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller

'Revealing and often moving' - Guardian

'Brilliant, emotive' - Daily Mail

21 years, 188 Test Matches, 704 Test Wickets.


This is Jimmy's story: an intimate, honest reflection told with his trademark humility and dry humour. From growing up in. Burnley as an outsider, isolated at school, bunking off, dreaming of being somewhere - anywhere - else, to dominating the 22 yards of the wicket as part of the deadliest England attack ever assembled.

Jimmy takes us inside the dressing room, to those unforgettable moments: his debut under Nasser Hussain, facing off the Aussies with Monty Panesar, Kevin Pietersen's 'textgate' and that Mitchell Johnson incident. He reflects on the intense rivalries with Michael Clarke and Sachin Tendulkar and the burgeoning friendships with Alastair Cook and Stuart Broad. Delving behind the cricket, Jimmy reveals his experiences of personal loss alongside the pain of professional injury, and the strength he found from his marriage and the arrival of his two children.

Finding the Edge is a front-row seat at the greatest games of the last two decades as England journey from perennial losers to world number one. But, above all, it is a coming-of-age story that reveals the real Jimmy Anderson: vulnerable, introspective, relentlessly determined, constantly evolving - a bowler unequalled, a career like no other.

Revealing and often moving * Guardian *
Brilliant, emotive * Daily Mail *

ISBN: 9781785123511

Dimensions: 240mm x 162mm x 30mm

Weight: 534g

336 pages