Product Description: Brian Robinson was the first Briton ever to ride and finish the Tour de France. That was back in 1955 when, for just one year, Hercules sponsored a British team. At a time when professional cycle racing on the roads was virtually unknown in this country, Robinson went off to the Continent, without a contract, without the security of being part of an established team, to make a career for himself in what is now generally regarded as having been one of the toughest eras in a very tough sport...read more

An all-encompassing history of the Tour de France that brings the story right up to date with all the action from the 2012 race. In this updated edition of the highly acclaimed Tour de France, Graeme Fife sets the 2012 race in the context of the event's remarkable history, stretching back to July 1903. Combining meticulous research with a pacy narrative style, he penetrates the mystique of the race and paints a colourful picture of the men whose exploits have given the Tour an enduring universal appeal. With tales of great solo rides, amazing fortitude, terrible misfortune and triumph, Tour de France is the definitive account of this extraordinary competition. Named one of the top-five sports books of the year by both The Independent and The Times, it is the essential guide to the Tour.

Product Description: A blend of literary reconstruction from contemporary documents including Charlotte's last letter from prison and the author's own insight into the mind and character of this remarkable young woman (1793, Charlotte Corday). This is a unique account of Jean Paul Marat´s assassination from Charlotte Corday´s side...read more

Product Description: Graeme Fife has been riding a bike since he discovered at age five that escaping from home on two wheels was a lot faster and took him a lot farther than was possible on foot. He soon combined his love of what was, admittedly, quite a humble version of the beautiful machine, with a tenacious grip on independence...read more

A compelling account of the French Revolution details the founding of the French Republic and the fanaticism of a powerful political clique, the Jacobin Club, that inflicted a reign of terror on their compatriots that transformed France into a totalitarian slaughterhouse that claimed thousands of lives. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: It is one of sport’s toughest ordeals and the ultimate test for professional cyclists. The Tour de France sees riders pitted against all kinds of terrain and weather, in unrelenting competition with their rivals for three weeks...read more

From early 1793 to the summer of 1794, the young French Republic was subject to a reign of institutionalized terror. This period is recreated here by Graeme Fife, who uses contemporary documents, eye-witness accounts and reports to show the atmosphere of fear and suspicion that gripped the nation.

Product Description: Racing cyclists all ride the same frail machine and all are equal before the demands of the road, but what is it that makes a winner? What special attributes do winners need to give them that extra edge? To find out, Fife analyses and illustrates the moral strength, intelligence, racing nous, cunning, tactical acumen, and superior mental resilience of the champion racing cyclist...read more

Traces the development of Arthurian literature, examines its major themes of chivalry, heraldry, pageantry, and the Holy Grail, and links its development to the rise of the Christian Crusading movement