Books
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Riders of the Storm: the story of London Edinburgh London 2025
In the immortal words of The Beatles, I’m now a paperback writer! I have just published…
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50 years as a Guardian reader
Above: shades of the 1930s. My copy of the Guardian reporting over 3 million out of…
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Off the Rails: a gripping but flawed book about HS2
A review of Off the Rails, The Inside Story of HS2 by Sally Gimson. (Oneworld, 2025)…
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Celebrating World (Audio) Book Day
World Book Day. A inspired way of getting children to read books, or an annual chore…
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Colditz: Ben Mcintyre’s spellbinding book
This was the forbidding opening title scene in the BBC’s iconic 1970s television drama, Colditz, with…
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My 35 year cycling anniversary
Exactly 35 years ago, my life changed for ever. On a sunny Saturday in July 1989…
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‘Don’t tell him, Pike!’ Remembering Ian Lavender from Dad’s Army
Note: I published this blogpost a year ago, but accidentally unpublished it a couple of months…
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1923: Ned Boulting’s Tour de France obsession
Cycling journalist Ned Boulting’s latest book, 1923, is the story of how the purchase of the…
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Echoes of 1939
Some years are associated with tragedy and the horror of war. For example,1914: the year the…
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Thank you, Dervla Murphy
I’m in Inverness, on the eve of my latest cycling adventure. I’ll be pedalling 500 miles…