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The Cycling Anthology

Volume Four (4/5)

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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014

Professional cycling is a rich, dynamic and often controversial sport that lends itself to great writing. Some of the most famous and illustrious races were founded by newspapermen and The Cycling Anthology continues this tradition by bringing together the best in the business. Volume Four...

The Cycling Anthology

Volume Three (3/5)

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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014

Professional cycling is a rich, dynamic and often controversial sport that lends itself to great writing. Some of the most famous and illustrious races were founded by newspapermen and The Cycling Anthology continues this tradition by bringing together the best in the business. Volume Three...
by Simon Yates
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010

Simon Yates is 'the one who cut the rope' in Joe Simpson's award-winning account of their epic struggle for survival in Touching the Void. Afterwards, Yates continued mountaineering on the hardest routes. Perhaps the most testing of all was one of the world's largest vertical rockfaces, the 4, 000-ft...

The Grudge

Scotland vs. England, 1990

by Tom English
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010

Murrayfield, the Calcutta Cup, March 1990. England vs. Scotland - winner-takes-all for the Five Nations Grand Slam, the biggest prize in northern hemisphere rugby. Will Carling's England are the very embodiment of Margaret Thatcher's Britain - snarling, brutish and all-conquering. Scotland are the...

Hail, Claudio!

The Man, the Manager, the Miracle

by Gabriele Marcotti, Alberto Polverosi
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016

Leicester City's Premier League victory was the 5,000-1 triumph that delighted the world. But how did Claudio Ranieri pull off one of the greatest achievements in sport? This is the inside story of the rise and rise of the butcher’s son from Rome, whose hard work, passion for the game...

Stand Up And Fight

When Munster Beat the All Blacks

by Alan English
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014

31/10/1978 Thomond Park. One of the greatest days in rugby history, Munster beat the All Blacks. More than 100,000 people claimed to have watched the game, even though the ground could only hold 12,000. In this 40th anniversary edition of the widely acclaimed Stand Up and Fight, Alan English...
by Bradley Wiggins
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015

One man, one bike, one hour. The inside story of Bradley Wiggins's record-breaking ride For 60 minutes this summer, the British public stopped what they were doing, switched on their radios, their TVs, refreshed their Twitter feeds and followed Bradley Wiggins’s attempt to break one of sport’s...

The Meaning of Cricket

or How to Waste Your Life on an Inconsequential Sport

by Jon Hotten
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016

Cricket is a strange game. It is a team sport that is almost entirely dependent on individual performance. Its combination of time, opportunity and the constant threat of disaster can drive its participants to despair. To survive a single delivery propelled at almost 100 miles an hour takes the body...

O, Louis

In Search of Louis van Gaal

by Hugo Borst
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014

‘Am I so smart or are you so stupid?’ – Louis van Gaal I started out wanting to write a book about Marco van Basten. I still do, but I dread the moment when I have to write something I know will make him unhappy. He’s not a man you wage war on. With Louis van Gaal it’s different:...

Sunday in Hell

Behind the Lens of the Greatest Cycling Film of All Time

by William Fotheringham
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018

The Paris-Roubaix Classic. 273 kilometres of torment across the bone-crunching pavé of northern France. In 1976 the celebrated Danish film director, Jørgen Leth, embarked on an ambitious project to capture the spirit of this spectacular and cruel one-day race. The resulting film, A Sunday in Hell,...
by The Cycling Podcast
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018

Readers as well as listeners can now embark on a journey through the cycling year with The Cycling Podcast, which has been entertaining and informing fans since 2013. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe share their diaries from three incident-filled Grand Tours, the Giro d’Italia,...
by Charles Rangeley-Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011

Fishing can take you to the heart of a landscape in a way few other forms of travel can match. Whether in the world's most outlandish and awe-inspiring places or just at the end of your road, fishing will introduce you to crabby weather and crabbier locals, moon-phases, rip-tides, floods, droughts,...

The Cycling Anthology

Volume Five (5/5)

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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014

Professional cycling is a rich, dynamic and often controversial sport that lends itself to great writing. Some of the most famous and illustrious races were founded by newspapermen and The Cycling Anthology continues this tradition by bringing together the best in the business. Volume Five...
by John Dennen
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017

Over the last 8 years Anthony Joshua has pounded his way to the top of the boxing world. In April 2017 he faced the legendary Ukrainian, Wladimir Klitschko, in the fight that commentators have labelled the heavyweight fight of the century. Sports fans were gripped as Joshua battled bravely through...
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