This week I stumbled across a massive document from the official Wimbledon website that contains a treasure trove of information about the tournament. The Wimbledon Compendium includes 566 pages of almost everything you might want to know about the event. Included in that publication is a list of books about Wimbledon.
With the fortnight largely in the rearview mirror at this point, I have no intention of immediately exploring these titles. However, it is still a useful resource for planning candidate books to consider next year during the grasscourt season. Not surprisingly, The Wimbledon Compendium leans hard toward officially sanctioned All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) publications.
The list of books runs for two and a half pages, but the length is artificially inflated by listing updated editions separately. Also, many of the more intriguing titles on the list have been out of print for a while. However, quite a few recent books are still in active publication and will likely be in the mix next year.
Here is what we may have to look forward to in 2024.
- Holding Court, Christopher Gorringe with Jo Russell, Century, London, 2009.
- Anyone for Tennis? The Telegraph Book of Wimbledon, Martin Smith (Editor), Aurum Press, London, 2010
- The Wimbledon Miscellany, Spencer Vignes, History Press, Stroud, 2010
- Standing in Line: 30 years of Obsessive Queuing at Wimbledon, Ben Chatfield, Pitch Publishing, Worthing, Sussex, 2018
- Wimbledon: The Official History, John Barrett. Vision Sports Publishing, Kingston- on-Thames (Fifth Edition), 2020
- The People’s Wimbledon: Memories & Memorabilia from The Lawn Tennis Championships, Richard Jones. Pitch Publishing, Worthing, Sussex, 2020
- Wimbledon’s Greatest Games: The All England Club’s Fifty Finest Matches, Abi Smith. Pitch Publishing, Worthing, Sussex, 2020
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- The 2023 Wimbledon Compendium, The All England Tennis and Lawn Club, Wimbledon London.
