Parker said:
It is continuing proof of a big market in Britain for autobiographies.
Actually, only four of those books - a minority of those books - can be classed as autobiography.
Nothing to do with Sky really. There's loads of books which have nothing to do with them.
There's load of books which are very much about BC/Sky. Richard Moore can be credited with offering the earliest insights into recent British Olympic success, with his
Heroes, Villains & Velodromes and his ghost-written Chris Hoy autobiography. We can add in books from Mark Cavendish (
Boy Racer and
At Speed) and Bradley Wiggins (
In Pursuit of Glory,
On Tour,
My Time and
The Official Bradley Wiggins Opus), from Victoria Pendleton (
Between the Lines), from David Millar (
Racing Through the Dark), from Charlie Wegelius (
Domestique), from Rob Hayles (
Easy Rider). We can add in Richard Moore's look at the launch of Team Sky,
Sky's the Limit and his Dave Brailsford profile
Mastermind. We can add in Edward Pickering's
The Race Against Time which is only partly about the Obree-Boardman rivalry in the Hour years but also about British cycling then and now. We can add in William Fotheringham's recent collection of newspaper columns,
Racing Hard. We can add in David Sharp's biography of Chris Froome,
Va Va Froome and Froome's own autobiography,
The Climb. We can add in the 94 insta-books that appeared in 2012 following Bradley Wiggins's Tour win. We can add in Rod Ellingworth (
Project Rainbow), Sean Yates (
It's All About the Bike), David Walsh (
Inside Team Sky), Nicole Cooke (
The Breakaway), Michael Barry (
Shadows in the Road), And then there's Chris Sidwells (
The Long Road to Glory) and Ellis Bacon (
Great British Cycling), And - last but by no means least - the forthcoming titles from Chris Boardman (
Triumphs and Turbulence) and Dave Brailsford (
What it Takes). Rather a lot of the UK cycling publishing industry is tied to the success of British Cycling and Sky.