Now KP faces the Battle of the Books

Kevin Pietersen does not just have to win the argument over English cricket, he will be expected to win the war on the bookshelves. His autobiography hits the shops on what has become recognized as Super Thursday - a rush of top titles jockeying for position for the Christmas market.

The Second Half by Roy Keane: His appetite not sated by one fang-bearing autobiography, Keane has issued another one in what football, at least, regards as the book event of the year. Sir Alex Ferguson is addressing business leaders in Dublin on Thursday - the day the book is published. As yet, Andy Flower has no plans to meet the CBI.

More Fool Me by Stephen Fry: Fry rebelled against authority from boyhood, developed a cocaine habit in middle age, and, for all the warmth he can generate, he is not short of intellectual arrogance. His rebellious streak has touch of KP about it. Yet Fry, to use the cliché, is a national treasure. KP is regarded by many a national scandal. Rebellion is less easily accepted in sport than in the arts.

Us by David Nicholls: If you want to cap a cricket book that is about Me, why not issue a novel that is about Us? Those who loved One Day's story of ill-fated young lovers are scrambling for Us and its story of ill-fated middle age.

So Anyway by John Cleese: A must for Monty Python and Fawlty Towers fans. This is the story of how a gangly youth went on to become "a self-confessed legend" and fell out with quite a lot of people on the way. Sound familiar?

Good Eating by the Hairy Dieters: The third series of a diet book that promises to "fill you up and slim you down". Will the Christmas book buyers gorge on this rather than swallow KP's version of his England career?

Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham: The creator of the HBO series Girls offers "hopeful despatches from the frontline" written by a "girl with a keen interest in having it all". We're just saying.