The Observer, November 2020 Juve!Herbie Sykes Yellow Jersey, £20, pp416 Herbie Sykes has written several fine books on cycling and Italian culture. This keen Italophile now turns his attention to the country’s biggest football team, […]
One of the defining images of this strangest of years in professional cycling was Jai Hindley and Tao Geoghegan Hart duking it out on the famed, snow-dusted slopes of the Stelvio as the Giro d’Italia […]
One goes to ride across Israel and occupied Palestine in search of “hope, truth and change”. Another sets out to ride all six continents to find “more space, more time, more risk: more adventure”. Julian […]
The Observer, October 2020. Margaret MacMillan’s exemplary study of war, Sigrid Nunez’s meditation on death and Joseph O’Connor’s resurrection of Bram Stoker War: How Conflict Shaped Us Margaret MacMillanProfile, £20, pp320 In historian Margaret MacMillan’s […]
The author says his time as a travel journalist in Dubai informed him how he could move his characters around and what that meant. The National, October 2020 Sometimes, inspiration can strike, and stick, in […]