Out Of My Head by Tim Parks
The Observer, July 2018 Close your eyes for a second and think of a loved one, a familiar place; even, say, a favourite Harry Kane goal. They all seem indelibly marked on the mind – […]
BOOKS
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
The Observer, August 2018 Early in Rebecca Makkai’s stylish and ambitious new novel, one of her protagonists, Fiona, is pondering life in her 50s. She feels tired, guilty. Everyone she loved has “died or left”. […]
Sunday In Hell by William Fotheringham
Twenty minutes into Jorgen Leth’s revolutionary film about the 1976 Paris-Roubaix bike race, Eddy Merckx, Roger De Vlaeminck, Freddy Maertens and Francesco Moser (not forgetting Marc Demeyer) finally leave Chantilly for the famous velodrome 273 […]
The Ronde by Edward Pickering
This Easter Sunday, thousands of devotees will make their pilgrimage to hallowed ground in Belgium. They may touch the cobbled streets in awe, they may even stop to genuflect at the Chapel of the Onze […]
The Cycling Podcast by Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie & Daniel Friebe
I can remember the first time I listened to The Cycling Podcast. It was 2014, there was a long car journey to fill, and the way cycling writers Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe and Richard Moore […]