Ronnie O'Sullivan – författare

AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 and THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR''Reading this is like watching an O''Sullivan break: hypnotic, dazzling and impossible to tear yourself away from.'' - STEPHEN FRY''Besides quite a few laughs, many readers will find recognition, reassurance, remedy and revelation in O''Sullivan''s candid story. I highly recommend it.'' - THE TIMES''Ronnie is searingly honest, candidly funny, and thought provokingly brilliant in Unbreakable. I devoured it.'' - NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE---In a career spanning over three decades, Ronnie O''Sullivan''s journey to becoming the greatest snooker player of all time has been filled with extremes.A teenage snooker prodigy, Ronnie turned professional with the highest of expectations. This pressure, together with a challenging personal life, catapulted Ronnie into a life of excess and addiction. He was winning titles - his first within a year of turning professional - but losing himself and his game as he tried to block out the mental pain and misery. Whilst Ronnie appeared at the height of the game to spectators, these were the moments when he felt at his lowest.In the year 2000 Ronnie started rehab and began the journey to get his life back, addressing his demons and working on developing a stronger and more resilient mindset. More than twenty years on, Ronnie is still obsessed with delivering his peak performance and never happier than when in a snooker hall, but success has now taken on a new meaning for the record-equalling world champion.Framed around the many lessons Ronnie has learned from his extraordinary career, Unbreakable takes us beyond the success and record-breaking achievements to share the reality - and brutality - of making it to the very top, whatever your field. Ronnie is the first to say he doesn''t have all the answers, but in sharing the experiences that have shaped him and mistakes that have made him, he hopes to help readers navigate their own personal challenges and obstacles, and in turn reach their maximum potential.This is Ronnie O''Sullivan as you''ve never seen him before, the definitive and unflinching story of a true British icon and a fascinating insight into the mindset of the world''s greatest snooker player.Sunday Times Bestseller, May 2023

World Snooker Champion Ronnie O''Sullivan''s frank and honest account of his astonishingly dramatic life.I used to rely on drugs and alcohol to keep me going, but now I''ve got the healthiest addiction going - running.This book explains how running has helped me to fight my demons - my addictive personality, depression, my dad''s murder conviction, the painful break-up with the mother of my children - and allowed me to win five World Snooker Championships.It is also about all of the great things in my life - my kids, snooker, my dad''s release from prison, great mates who have helped me, and the psychiatrist Dr Steve Peters, who has taught me how not to run away when things get tough.Finally, it''s about what it''s like to get the buzz - from running, from snooker, from life. Because when it comes down to it, everyone needs something to drive them on.

Fast paced and full of grit, this is the first crime novel from the UK''s most charismatic sporting genius.WHEN THE GAME IS MURDER, YOU CAN''T AFFORD TO LOSE.An innocent man. Frankie James is a young man with a lot on his shoulders. His mother disappeared when he was sixteen; his father''s in jail for armed robbery; and he owes rent on the Soho snooker club he inherited to one of London''s toughest gangsters. A brutal murder.And things are about to get a whole lot worse when Frankie''s brother Jack is accused of killing a bride-to-be. He needs to find out who framed Jack and why; but that means entering the sordid world of bent coppers, ruthless mobsters and twisted killers. But in the dog-eat-dog underworld of 1990s Soho, is he tough enough, and smart enough to come out on top?If you like Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers, you''ll LOVE this.

Ronnie is snooker''s most written and talked about player, and its greatest showman. His supreme talent and style have made him the People''s Champion and, as one commentator put it, ''the question is not how much does Ronnie O''Sullivan need snooker, but how much does snooker need Ronnie O''Sullivan?'' A honest and candid account of his extraordinary life, Ronnie tells of the infant who was introduced to legendary snooker clubs at an impossibly early age; of the boy who frightened off the bookies aged just 12; of the teenager whose life was decimated when his father and mentor was sent to prison for life; and of the man dubbed the ''genius'' of the modern game who regularly threatened to quit the sport to pursue other interests at the grand old age of 28.''A fine autobiography ... compelling'' - Independent''O''Sullivan is as frank about his spell in the Priory clinic as he is about his father''s murder conviction. His accounts of snooker tournaments and sketches of the sport''s personalities will fascinate fans, but even snooker haters will be rooting for Ronnie in the game of life'' - OK!

”Olen kirjoittanut tämän kirjan, koska tahdon kertoa totuuden, oikaista tiettyjä ennakkoluuloja ja jakaa eteenpäin oivalluksia, joita olen saanut matkani varrella.”

Murtumaton on kiehtova kuvaus Ronnie O’Sullivanin uran huippu­hetkistä ja synkimmistä laaksoista sekä miehestä urheilusaavutusten taustalla. Samalla se on rehellinen kertomus niistä uhrauksista, joita menestys on häneltä vaatinut.

Ronnie oli snookerin ihmelapsi, joka siirtyi ammattilaiseksi 16-vuotiaana ja voitti ensimmäisen ranking-turnauksensa kaikkien aikojen nuorimpana pelaajana. Elämää varjostivat kuitenkin itselle asetetut ylisuuret paineet, nuorella iällä koetut molempien vanhempien vankilatuomiot sekä vaikea päihderiippuvuus.

Lopulta Ronnien elämä suistui raiteiltaan, ja hän harkitsi jopa uransa lopettamista. Kerta toisensa jälkeen hän on kuitenkin palannut huipulle ja onnistunut kääntämään henkilökohtaiset ongelmansa vahvuuksikseen.

Tom Fordyce on kirjoittanut kirjan yhdessä Ronnie O’Sullivanin kanssa. Fordyce on englantilainen urheilu­toimittaja ja kirjailija.