Swimming

This is a list of books that are somehow related to swimming. I have read them all apart from where noted.

The Swimmer by John Cheever
The classic swimming story. This is a short story of only some 13 pages and is usually found within his Collected Short Stories. A good Holiday read.
Swimming the Channel - a memoir of love and loss by Sally Friedman - published by Seeker and Warburg.
An excellent book with a great deal about swimming and what it is like to swim. Very sad.
Waterlog - A swimmer's journey through Britain by Roger Deakin - published by Chatto and Windus
One of my favourites. A fascinating trip around backwaters and obscure swimming places. I must visit the Jubilee pool in Penzance because of reading this.
Here comes the sun by Ken Worpole (published by Reaktion Books) covers the rise of the Lido in the 1930s to their decline in the 60s and 70s and to a hopefull resurgance in the 2000s.
The Springboard in the Pond by Thomas A.P. van Leeuwen published by MIT press. This is a fascinating history of the swimming pool. Covers many aspects of swimming and it even mentions Dudley Zoo.
Haunts of the Black Masseur - The Swimmer as Hero by Charles Sprawson
This is top of my list of books to buy.
Fitness Swimming by Emmett Hines published by Human Kinetics.
Starts from the begining : get a swimming costume and goggles then find a pool - any pool really - and swim : and then leads into training schemes at all levels. This book explained to me how to swim faster rather than just becoming fitter.