By his eighteenth birthday David Millar was living and racing in France, sleeping in rented rooms, tipped to be the next English-speaking Tour winner. A year later he'd realised the dream and signed a professional contract. He perhaps lived the high life a little too enthusiastically - he broke his heel in a fall from a roof after too much drink - and before long the pressure to succeed had tipped over into doping. Here, in a full and frank autobiography, David Millar recounts the story fr...

What is it really like to be a racer?What is it like to be swept along at 60kmh in the middle of the pack? What happens to the body during a high-speed chute? What tactics must teams employ to win the day, the jersey, the grand tour? What sacrifices must a cyclist make to reach the highest levels? What is it like on the bus? In the hotels? What camaraderie is built in the confines of a team? What rivalries? How does it feel to be constantly on the road, aw...

What is it really like to be a racer?What is it like to be swept along at 60kmh in the middle of the pack? How does it feel to be reeled in from a solo breakaway metres from the line? What happens to the body during a high-speed chute? What tactics must teams employ to win the day, the jersey, the grand tour? How does a domestique keep going to the end of a stage once his job is done and his body exhausted? How does a time-trialist maintain his form when every mus...

The SUNDAY TIMES bestselling memoir from the Tour de France cyclist who lifts the lid on his drug use and return to sport.By his eighteenth birthday David Millar was living and racing in France, sleeping in rented rooms, tipped to be the next English-speaking Tour winner. A year later he'd realised the dream and signed a professional contract. He perhaps lived the high life a little too enthusiastically - he broke his heel in a fall from a roof after too much drink...

Cuando en 2004 el ciclista escocés David Millar fue detenido y expulsado de la competición internacional por haber utilizado sustancias ilegales para incrementar su rendimiento, su vida de ensueño se vino abajo. Millar lo perdió todo: un contrato millonario con uno de los principales equipos del pelotón, su estilo de vida en la opulenta ciudad de Biarritz, el apoyo de sus colegas más cercanos e incluso la medalla de oro que había conquistado pocos meses antes en el Mundial. Este es el rela...

Blood is the link between humans, demigods, and demons—and is the Blood Queen's domain.Three childhood friends meet in the Scottish Highlands. Two hold secrets. One may be a monster.As Gràinne reached for the still warm heart, tendrils of the red mist preceded her. When they touched the heart, she felt power drawn from the blood. She steeled herself and bit into the organ. Such was the curse of the Blood Queen.Brian...

"You have no weapons, striapach.""I am the weapon, tuilí."It is 400 B.C. The mist clears, and three triremes glide into the calm waters of the bay in Southern Ériu. On a grass-topped dune, a young girl dances gleefully at the Goddess's gift.The warrior princesses, Brighid and Danu, leap over the vessels' sides into the cold waters and look north towards their ancestral home—the fort of Ráth Na Conall

"It is a king's decision," said Brion."It will not be you who deceives and delivers the lamb to the butcher's block," retorted Eimhir.True evil is a persistent and tenacious beast. Its desire for existence is eternal and insatiable. It needs to infect only one mind for its insidious philosophy to take root and spread.It is 394 B.C. At a remote loch in the highlands of Northern Albu, a priest sacrifices nine innocents. Below the water's surface, a sh...

Le monde moderne est devenu une dystopie. Mais la situation n'a pas toujours été aussi désespérée. Jadis, sous l'égide de surhumains réunis sous le nom de Jupiter's Circle, notre planète était plus proche du paradis. Il était facile de distinguer le bien du mal et les héros étaient intègres et infaillibles. Du moins, c'est ce que l'on croyait... Née de l'imagination de Mark Millar (Kick-Ass, Ultimates, Kingsman : Services Secrets), cette épopée exploite tout le potentiel du genre super-hér...

"You are a dragon, my lady… Give in to the ridiculous knowledge. You are a serpent and there is no turning back for you**."**Mythology and faerie tales provide comfort and safety for humans and supernatural creatures alike. Facts are dangerous.What if you discovered you were a dragon and the queen-in-waiting of the Dragon Throne? What would you do if challenged by a brother you had never met to a duel to the death for the throne? What if you found ...

By turns informative and irreverent this book takes a new approach to tackling gender inequality in the home and at work, focusing on dads being entitled to a bigger role in parenting. It presents the barriers men face to being active dads – from sexist security guards to Tory MPs and even Homer Simpson - and, crucially, it outlines how to tackle them for the good of men, women and children. In Dads Don’t Babysit two dads outline some of the biggest problems facing families that want dad t...

Our world presents daily distractions that can easily displace Christ as the center of a man’s heart and life. The goal of the ESV Men’s Devotional Bible is to strengthen and encourage men through the life-giving Word of God and sound devotional content aimed at nurturing godliness.With 365 theologically rich and gospel-centered devotions drawn directly from the Bible, this all-new resource was created under the editorial oversight of Dr. Sam Storms with contributions from...