The Cycling Touring and Campaigning (CTC) magazine, Cycle, has published a review of 50 Quirky Bike Rides by Eye Books author Rob Ainsley.
A bit like Dr Who’s Tardis, this slim paperback conceals a cavernous interior, with copious facts about unusual biking experiences all over England and Wales. Each ride includes a ’snackstop’, a ‘bevvy break’, a tourist tick list (making sightseeing a doddle) and details of further information sources. Yet more icing on the cake comes in the form of a dedicated website with maps of all the routes shown. The book will interest a whole spectrum of riders, from casual pootlers to dedicated cycle tourers. A great book.
Visit Rob’s website here.
Alastair Humphreys, author of Moods of Future Joys and Thunder and Sunshine, is embarking on a new expedition. SOUTH will be the longest unsupported polar journey in history, with Alastair and his friend Ben Saunders making the first return journey to the South pole on foot. This pdf brochure summarises the project. This extraordinary and inspirational pair have been training for over four years in order to be able to face the extreme conditions they will have to survive. Alastair’s blog goes into more detail about this incredible challenge, and you can find out more about Ben Saunders, youngest person to ski solo to the North Pole and British record holder for the longest Arctic journey, on his blog.
Chips Hardy, author of Each Day a Small Victory, has a new play out. There’s Something in the Fridge that Wants to Kill Me is provocative, moving and hilarious. Isabelle Gregson shines in this one woman, multiple personality show. London previews at Theatre 503 on the 17th and 18th of July, then onwards to the Edinburgh Fringe between 31st July and 25th August.
The fifth book in our Graphic Shakespeare range, Oscar Grillo’s version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest will re-define the genre with its quality of illustration. This version has the full text; nothing has been added, nothing has been taken away, none of Shakespeare’s poetic verse has been dumbed-down. Grillo’s spectacular and quirky illustration is not merely illustrative, but interpretive. This inventive re-imagining of one of Shakepeare’s finest plays is a must-have for any literature or graphic novel enthusiast.
To be published September/October 2008.
Keith Pointing explores dysfunctional relationships in this darkly comic creation. In The Inkspot Monologues, a leading relationship therapist uses Rorschach blots to help Jack and Alice exorcise their unsuccessful romantic relationships. Pointing’s witty and insightful illustrations bring this book to life. Anyone who’s ever broken up with someone needs to read this book.
To be published September 2008.
50 Quirky Bike Rides, Rob Ainsley’s new book, details 50 exciting, eccentric and unusual bike rides across England and Wales.
The most spectacular bridges; the best tunnels; the widest fords; the most beautiful canals; the bendiest bike path; the longest downhills. Weird places where you can (metaphorically) take your bike downhill skiing, potholing, tightrope walking, or turn it into a pedalo.
Oddities like cycling on a motorway or on the right-hand side of the road, or on bridges that take you by canal towpaths over rivers.
50 excellent biking adventures that you can have with friends, with family, and even a couple to enjoy with vast crowds of complete strangers.
Press for 50 Quirky Bike Rides:
“Does what it says on the tin: 50 well-researched, interesting rides, all over England and Wales” - London Cyclist magazine
I read Alastair's first book Moods of Future Joys and heard him speak at Stanfords in Bristol recently. He is ...