THE MUST-HAVE AUTOBIOGRAPHY FROM CRICKET LEGEND, JIMMY ANDERSON
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 CHARLES TYRWHITT SPORTS BOOK AWARDS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK AWARDS
'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. Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest bowlers in the history of the sport, James 'Jimmy' Anderson OBE holds the record for the most wickets taken by a fast bowler in Test cricket. In an international career spanning 21 years, and an incredible 188 Test Matches, Anderson has taken over 700 wickets. Jimmy Anderson is the greatest pace bowler of all time. His skill and mastery of swing bowling for England and Lancashire has pushed him to third on the list of all-time test wicket takers. In 2024 he bagged his 700th test wicket - in the history of cricket only Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan have managed more. He is also England's most capped player ever during a career that has spanned over twenty years. He is also the host of the hit podcast Tailenders, alongside Greg James and Felix White The first full autobiography of England's Jimmy Anderson, one of the greatest cricketers of all time. The first full autobiography of England's Jimmy Anderson, one of the greatest cricketers of all time. Jimmy Anderson is one of the most popular and enduring England players, with over 1m followers on Instagram, and 1.1m on X (more than Stuart Broad and Freddie Flintoff). Big Christmas gift offering, especially following the success of Stuart Broad's autobiography last year (68k TCM). The success of the Tailenders podcast and Felix White's involvement as co-writer will be an additional driver for pre-orders (17 million downloads to date and roughly 100k downloads per episode). Major marketing and push including five days of promotion around publication, including book and ticket events, signings, tv and radio appearances, with more to come in December. Revealing and often moving
