9 must-read history books like 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession by Ned Boulting

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1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession

By: Ned Boulting

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The story of an obsession. When cycling commentator Ned Boulting bought a length of Pathé news film…

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1. Thomas Dekker - mijn gevecht

By: Thijs Zonneveld

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Thomas Dekker (1984) heeft genoeg van de leugens. Zijn echte verhaal is nog nooit verteld. De waarh… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • cycling
  • audiobook

2. The Rider

By: Sam Garrett , Tim Krabbé

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

A literary sports classic, finally available in the U.S. Originally published in the Netherlands in… read more

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3. The World of Cycling According to G

By: Geraint Thomas

4.60

Format: None pages,

Sit back or saddle up as double Olympic gold medallist and multiple world champion Geraint Thomas g… read more

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4. The Death of Marco Pantani: A Biography

By: Matt Rendell

4.17

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

At 9:30 pm on February 14, 2004, former Tour de France winner Marco Pantani was found dead in Rimin… read more

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5. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

Similar categories in Rory Stewart's Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within book and Ned Boulting's 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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6. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

By: Ian Dunt

4.45

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more

Similar categories in Ian Dunt's How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't book and Ned Boulting's 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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7. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By: Michael Palin

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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8. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

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  • audiobook
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9. Lost in the Lakes: Notes from a 379-Mile Walk in the Lake District

By: Tom Chesshyre

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Join travel writer Tom Chesshyre for a lakeland adventure like no other. Explore towering mountains… read more

Similar categories in Tom Chesshyre's Lost in the Lakes: Notes from a 379-Mile Walk in the Lake District book and Ned Boulting's 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession

  • nonfiction
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10. A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

By: Edward Chisholm

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young w… read more

Similar categories in Edward Chisholm's A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City book and Ned Boulting's 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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12. Tour de Force

By: Mark Cavendish

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'I pulled off my glasses and wiped my eyes. " That was perhaps the last race of my career..."' Dee… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • cycling
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13. O Brother

By: John Niven

4.64

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

John Niven’s little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My mother can hold her own where foreign words are involved. The simple duo-syllable 'croissant' comes out variously as 'craw-sank', 'crass-ant', or 'crah-sint', the word seeming to have no business …"

-John Niven, O Brother

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14. Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was

By: Daniel Friebe

4.31

Format: 610 pages, Kindle Edition

Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was is the first biography of Jan Ullrich, arguably the most natu… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Friebe's Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was book and Ned Boulting's 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • cycling
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15. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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  • audiobook
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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16. Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet

By: Jenny Graham

4.56

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

16 countries, 124 days and 18,000 miles. This is the story of one woman's solo lap of the planet by… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • cycling
  • audiobook
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17. One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels

By: Jonathan Vaughters

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The new memoir tracing story of cycling since the 1980s, through the eyes of Jonathan Vaughters, fo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • cycling
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18. Follow The Money: How much does Britain cost?

By: Paul Johnson

4.29

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

What is the truth about Britain's finances? Paul Johnson and the enormously respected Institute … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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19. Bloody Minded: My Life in Cycling

By: Alex Dowsett

4.55

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 – CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR'Immensely readable and revea… read more

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  • cycling
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20. The Secret Cyclist: Real Life as a Rider in the Professional Peloton

By: The Secret Cyclist

3.64

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Who is The Secret Cyclist and why all the secrecy? "Every public aspect of our lives is so tight… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • cycling
  • audiobook
"To me, cycling can be glorious and it can be grubby, but quite often, it’s neither. It’s just pedalling for hours and hours for relatively little in return."

-The Secret Cyclist, The Secret Cyclist: Real Life as a Rider in the Professional Peloton

"It takes a special kind of person to want to be a professional cyclist. If you have another opportunity, such as university, you really have to think long and hard about it, because unless you’re ver…"

-The Secret Cyclist, The Secret Cyclist: Real Life as a Rider in the Professional Peloton

"If you want to know the truth about the latest equipment, don’t ask a pro. At least not one that’s speaking on the record. We’re told what to use and we have to be positive about it, even when it suc…"

-The Secret Cyclist, The Secret Cyclist: Real Life as a Rider in the Professional Peloton

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21. Chased by Pandas: My life in the mysterious world of cycling

By: Dan Martin

3.93

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

'This is Dan Martin's long-awaited autobiography, full of 'the warmth, sharp insights and vivid col… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • cycling
Cover of God is Dead: The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke, Cycling's Great Wasted Talent by Andy McGrath

22. God is Dead: The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke, Cycling's Great Wasted Talent

By: Andy McGrath

3.98

Format: None pages, ebook

The remarkable untold story of the mercurial cycling prodigy Frank Vandenbroucke, written by Willia… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • cycling
Cover of 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession by Ned Boulting

23. 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession

By: Ned Boulting

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The story of an obsession. When cycling commentator Ned Boulting bought a length of Pathé news film… read more

Similar categories in Ned Boulting's 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession book and Ned Boulting's 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • cycling
  • audiobook
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24. Mountains According to G

By: Geraint Thomas

4.02

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Cycling fans obsess about climbs and big mountains. They love reading about their tests and tribula… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • cycling
Cover of The Green Bullet: The rise, fall and resurrection of Alejandro Valverde and Spanish cycling’s corruption by Matt Rendell

25. The Green Bullet: The rise, fall and resurrection of Alejandro Valverde and Spanish cycling’s corruption

By: Matt Rendell

3.62

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

New from award-winning author Matt Rendell, an examination of the phenomenal success of Alejandro V… read more

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  • cycling
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26. Beryl

By: Jeremy Wilson

4.51

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

. Orders received by 3pm Sent from the UK that weekday. read more

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  • history
  • cycling
Cover of Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain by Tim Moore

27. Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain

By: Tim Moore

4.27

Format: None pages, ebook

Tim Moore completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's Grand Tours. Julian Berrendero'… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • cycling
Cover of My Family: The Memoir by David Baddiel

28. My Family: The Memoir

By: David Baddiel

4.41

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idio… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It by Sam Freedman

29. Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It

By: Sam Freedman

4.50

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

NOTHING WORKS IN BRITAIN.It’s harder than ever to get a GP appointment. Burglaries go unpunished. W… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Having sharper, more thoughtful and emotionally intelligent people with integrity in high office will always make things better."

-Sam Freedman, Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It

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30. The Hotel Avocado

By: Bob Mortimer

4.21

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of … read more

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  • audiobook
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31. Riding With The Rocketmen: One Man's Journey on the Shoulders of Cycling Giants

By: James Witts

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

' Humble and very funny ' - Ned Boulting ' Essential reading for any Étape rider ' - Daniel Friebe… read more

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  • sports

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