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Mythologies: Hemingway’s Bicycles
Ernest Hemingway is cycling’s most famous celebrity fan. But do the sport’s fans celebrate him for the right reasons?
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1923, by Ned Boulting
The clown prince of cycling commentary wipes off the greasepaint after acquiring a Pathé newsreel from the 1923 Tour and sets off on a voyage of discovery
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Tour de Force, by Mark Cavendish
The third volume of Mark Cavendish’s autobiography
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Mythologies: Queen Stages and Circles of Death – Things Ancient and Modern
When did bike races get queen stages? And why are they queen stages in some countries but king stages in others? What even is a queen stage?
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Chased by Pandas, by Dan Martin
The autobiography of Dan Martin, who won Liège-Bastogne-Liège and Il Lombardia, as well as stages in all three Grand Tours
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Cafe Bookshelf
The Green Bullet, by Matt Rendell
A biography of Alejandro Valverde
Beryl, by Jeremy Wilson
A biography of Beryl Burton, seven-time World Champion
The Greatest, by William Fotheringham
William Fotheringham’s self-published biography of Beryl Burton, seven-time World Champion
Personal Best, by Beryl Burton
The autobiography of Beryl Burton, seven-time world champion.
Mountains According to G, by Geraint Thomas
The third book in the ‘According to G’ franchise
The Wind at My Back, by Paul Maunder
A chamoir that mixes thoughts on cycling and writing
Start at the End, by Dan Bigham
The story of how a team of underdog privateers triumphed in two rounds of track cycling’s World Cup and what their success can teach you about achieving your goals
Dear Hugo, by Herbie Sykes
A cycling novel about Hugo Koblet, winner of the 1951 Tour de France
Magic Spanner, by Carlton Kirby
Carlton Kirby’s Magic Spanner – The World of Cycling According to Carlton Kirby, Eurosport’s Legendary Tour de France Commentator written by Carlton Kirby and published by Bloomsbury book
Le Fric, by Alex Duff
A (financial) history of the Tour de France with an emphasis on the attempts to form a breakaway league a decade ago
War on Wheels, by Justin McCurry
An introduction to keirin racing and its place in Japanese culture
Where There’s a Will, by Emily Chappell
Emily Chappell’s account of some of her ultra-cycling experiences and her friendship with Mike Hall.
Sprinting Through No Man’s Land, by Adin Dobkin
The story of the 1919 Tour de France, the first held after the end of the First World War
Climbers, by Peter Cossins
Well worn stories about wearers of the polka dot jersey
Mythologies: Assassins of the Aubisque!
The 1910 Tour has given rise to no end of nonsense, not least the claim that Octave Lapize called the race organisers assassins as he crossed the Col d’Aubisuqe an hour behind schedule + 15 minutes behind a nobody.
God is Dead, by Andy McGrath
A biography of Frank Vandenbroucke, winner of Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 1999
End to End, by Paul Jones
A history of the Lands End to John o’Groats record
Dirty Feet, by Les Woodland
A brief history of the Tour de France from the veteran cycling historian Les Woodland