WINNER OF THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEARA WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: SPORTNOMINATED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'An absorbing mix of historical sleuthing and travel writing' -The Telegraph'[a] fascinating and often touching book… Wonderful' -The TimesWhen cycling commentator Ned Boulting bought a ...

Ned Boulting has noticed something. It's to do with bikes. They're everywhere. And so are their riders. Some of these riders seem to be sporting sideburns and a few of them are winning things. Big things. Now Ned wants to know how on earth it came to this. And what, exactly is 'this'.In On the Road Bike, Ned Boulting asks how Britain became so obsessed with cycling. Ned's search puts him in contact with some of the wonderful and wonderfully idiosyncratic people who have co...

'Paris, 4 July 2003: My first Tour de France. I had never seen a bike race. I had only vaguely heard of Lance Armstrong. I had no idea what I was doing there. Yet, that day I was broadcasting live on television. I fumbled my way through a few platitudes, before summing up with the words, "...Dave Millar just missing out on the Yellow Jumper." Yes, theYellow Jumper*.'*Follow Ned Boulting's (occasionally excruciating) experiences covering the world'...

Find yourself confused, nodding along when a rouleur relates how le biscuit was effrité (crumbled)? How today they’re feeling Angers (past caring)?Fear no more, for Boulting's Velosaurus will illuminate, enlighten and, frankly, mislead.In his Velosaurus, ITV Tour de France commentator and cycling writer Ned Boulting provides the ultimate lexicon of nonsense terminology surrounding the es...

Join Ned Boulting as he reports on his dozen-th Tour de France, an event in which blokes do amazing things on bikes, and, we’re oft told, the biggest annual sporting event in the world.101 Damnations is a chance to relive the 2014 race, stage for stage, fall after fall, tantrum by tantrum; just the good bits mind, without all the aerial shots of castles. Or sunflowers. (Though it does wax lyrical about some stunning Alpine scenery . . . and, with the race starting in Yorks...

FROM THE WINNER OF THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR: 1923**'**A fascinating and inspiring book ... An excellent read' – Phil Liggett MBEIn the follow up to the bestselling How I Won the Yellow Jumper and the award-winning 1923, this is a lap of honour for everything that Ned has been lucky enough to have experienced during his commentating career.Join Ned once more as h...

This is not a 100,000-word, minute-by-minute, blow-by-blow account of the 2011 Tour de France.This is not the story of Cadel Evans.This is not the story of Alberto Contador, Andy Schleck, or Bradley Wiggins.And it's not even the story of Mark Cavendish.(Although he is in it quite a lot.)This is the story of the lesser-known heroes; the Johnny Hoogerlands, the Thomas Voecklers, the hitchhikers, the maniac press drivers, Norbert Dentressangle and the g...

In Heart of Dart-ness, TV's Ned Boulting sets out to answer the forty-something year old question: What exactly is darts? Is it a sport, a freak show, a side-show, a pantomime, a riot or a party?From Purfleet to Minehead, Milton Keynes to Frankfurt, Ned embarks on a journey back to the beginning of the modern game. He tracks down some of the household names who graced childhood television screens and are still among us; names such as Andy Fordham, whose fi...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 - SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR'What Ned hasn't seen on a sports TV channel isn't worth knowing about.'Gabby Logan'From falling out with Mourinho to flying with Gerrard, this is a wonderful journey through football.'Henry WinterSquare Peg, Round Ball is a candid, insightful reminiscence on a life in football....

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 MBEIn the follow up to the bes...

Bloomsbury presents Square Peg, Round Ball written and read by Ned Boulting.SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 – SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR'What Ned hasn’t seen on a sports TV channel isn’t worth knowing about.' – Gabby Logan'From falling out with Mourinho to flying with Gerrard, this is a wonderful journey through football.'- Henry WinterSquare Peg, Round Ball is a candid, insightful reminiscence on a life in football.

Ned Boulting has noticed something. It's to do with bikes. They're everywhere. And so are their riders. Some of these riders seem to be sporting sideburns and a few of them are winning things. Big things. Now Ned wants to know how on earth it came to this. And what, exactly is 'this'.In On the Road Bike, Ned Boulting asks how Britain became so obsessed with cycling. Ned’s search puts him in contact with some of the wonderful and wonderfully idiosyncratic people who have co...