Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2025A Sunday Times Best Book of 2025A Guardian Best Sports Book 2025A unique memoir from British cycling’s most fascinating competitor.In the summer of 2020, sportswriter David Walsh invited Pippa York began a series of journeys following the Tour de France. A nostalgic voyage through the world’s most competitive bike...

**Brought to you by Penguin.A rare insight into the heart of pro cycling and the inner workings of the peloton, from Team Sky and Ineos Grenadiers legend, Luke Rowe.**There’s one well-established truth in professional cycling: the strongest always wins. Yet in a sport of champions, victory is only possible as a team. At the heart of that team effort, that unity, is the road captain.After more than a decade as the pre-eminent road captain in professional bike racing,...

**Brought to you by Penguin.The final word on a record-breaking career from cycling's most formidable sprinter**Mark Cavendish is the stand-out British cyclist of our most golden generation. With his 35th Tour de France win in 2024, he became the outright all-time record holder for the most stage victories at the world's greatest cycling event. Breaking the record that had lasted for 48 years, Cavendish carved his name into history.In this definitive autobiography, ...

Bloomsbury presents The Accidental Tour-ist: (Final) Dispatches from the Road, written and read by Ned BoultingFROM THE WINNER OF THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR: 1923Shortlisted for the Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Audiobook of the Year, 2026'A fascinating and inspiring book … An excellent read' – Phill Liggett MBEEmbark on a whirlwind (and ...

'Back in 2012, everyone knew who Bradley Wiggins was. Everyone, that is, but me. Thirteen years after the summer that defined me, I have finally defined myself. The disguises have gone. I've made peace with myself.'Shortlisted for Autobiography of the Year at the 2026 Sports Book AwardsA WATERSTONES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025A GUARDIAN BEST SPORTS BOOK OF 2025A DAILY T...

BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'A teeming chronicle of those scorching months. Superbly researched.' THE TIMES'Scorching, animated and essential reading. Superb.' THE MAIL ON SUNDAY'Grippingly captures the three months that shook Britain's cultural landscape' PAULINE BLACK'Scorching, seething and scintillating, Heatwave conjures a slow-burnin...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Wreckers** sinks the old narratives of imperialism, revealing the violent, chaotic and improvised reality of empire-building from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.While figures such as Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan are celebrated for their maritime achievements – reaching the Americas, India, and circumnavigating the globe – focusing solely on these voyages distorts our perspective on t...

A Sunday Times Bestseller‘I Love You, Byeee is poignant and properly funny; a bracing dip into nostalgia, but self-aware, too.’ ObserverThe long-awaited new memoir and follow-up to the bestselling Ramble Book.Hey, how you doing, casual browser? Adam Buxton here. Are you ready for some hot hyperbole about this book? Here we go …In I Love You, Byeee, the highly anti...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE‘The greatest story in English sport told beautifully by one of its greatest writers’ Gary Lineker'A spellbinding piece of work' Oliver Holt; 'Absolute tour de force' Henry WinterAward-winning writer Paul Hayward delivers a compelling and unmissable account of the story of the England men's football team, published as they prepare for the World Cup in Qatar....

Isherwood’s story centers on the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features the vivid portraits of imperious, passionate, and witty Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter: the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood.

Brought to you by Penguin.'Trinity' was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. This exceptional book - Trinity - tells the story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, and the ghosts of the security services in Britain, the USA and USSR.Against the background of pre-war Nazi Germany, the Second World War and the following Cold War, the book...

Brought to you by Penguin.** SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2025 **A thrilling and unprecedented account of the radicalism and political extremism that gripped the 1970s – a seismic decade that transformed the modern world.In the 1970s, a network of extremists terrorised the West with intricately planned plane hijackings and hostage-takings. Among them were the glamorous Leila Khaled, hard-drinking Carlos...