The Sports Bookshelf

TODAY'S TOP TEN BESTSELLING SPORTS BOOKS Click on the title or picture link to buy 1 - Tom Daley: My Story Author: Tom Daley Published by: Michael Joseph Tom Daley started diving at the age of seven. Specializing in the 10 metre platform event, he became the youngest British world champion in any sport. He represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where he was Britain's youngest competitor, and won two gold medals for England at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. In 2007, 2009 and 2010, he was named BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year.   In this, his first official memoir, illustrated on many pages with his own photographs, he shares the pressures, challenges and fascinating experiences of his career as well as glimpses into his life away from his sport in the build up to the London Olympics. 2 - Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2012 Editor: Lawrence Booth Published by: John Wisden & Co Ltd First published in 1864 and probably t

The talents of Britain’s Commonwealth and World champion Tom Daley do not end with what he can do from a 10 metre diving board.  The precociously talented 16-year-old also harbours ambitions in photography and will show off his skill with the camera in an illustrated memoir to be published in the lead-up to the 2012 Olympics in London.  Michael Joseph has acquired world all-language rights to the book after striking a deal with literary agent Jonathan Harris of Luxton Harris on behalf of Daley’s agent, Jamie Cunningham, of Professional Sports Group. Daley said: "I am delighted to be working with Michael Joseph on my first book. The aim was to develop a concept involving photography at its core. Photography is part of my A Levels but also a hobby away from diving. I am really looking forward to creating a fun but interesting memoir of my sport, life, family and build up to London 2012." Daley, who started diving at the age of seven, won two gold medals at the Commowealth