French Revolutions
  • Published: 15 December 2012
  • ISBN: 9780224092111
  • Imprint: Yellow Jersey
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $24.99
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French Revolutions

Cycling the Tour de France

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18 Jan 2011
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15 Dec 2012
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Tim Moore, the ultimate amateur, attempts to complete all 3,630km of the Tour de France in the weeks before the professionals set off.


‘Bill Bryson on two wheels’ Independent

Self-confessed loafer Tim Moore, seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest annual sporting event in the world, sets out to cycle the Tour de France. All 3,630km of it.

A few weeks before the actual Tour de France, British writer Tim Moore sets out to cycle the course and offers a laugh-out-loud funny and highly entertaining account of how the great ride would feel when embarked on by an amateur. Racing old men on butchers' bikes and being chased by cows, Moore soon resorts to standard race tactics - cheating and drugs - in a hilarious and moving tale of true adventure.
  • Published: 15 December 2012
  • ISBN: 9780224092111
  • Imprint: Yellow Jersey
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

About the author

Tim Moore

Tim Moore’s writing has appeared in the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the Sunday Times and Esquire. He is the author of Gironimo!, French Revolutions, Do Not Pass Go, Spanish Steps, Nul Points, I Believe In Yesterday and You Are Awful (But I Like You). He lives in London.

portrait photo of Tim Moore

Also by Tim Moore

Vuelta Skelter
Another Fine Mess
The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold
Gironimo!
You Are Awful (But I Like You)
I Believe In Yesterday
Nul Points
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Praise for French Revolutions

Bill Bryson on two wheels... A one-liner every other line...not so much witty travelogue as self-examination in a joke-heavy trial by fire

Independent

Moore is a talented and funny writer who, through a combination of slapstick, absurd simile and a healthy suspicion of French civilisation, gives us something to laugh at on almost every page

Daily Telegraph

Hilarious and inspiring... It is embarrassingly laugh-out-loud

Daily Express

Moore unleashes a high-energy torrent of astute observation and hilarious self-deprecation. Hailed as the new Bill Bryson, he is in fact a writer of considerably more substance... The jokes come thick and fast

Irish Times

One of the funniest books about sport ever written

Sunday Times

I’ve got a degree in English, I’ve read all the books of Evelyn Waugh and just about every comic novelist, and its still the funniest book I’ve ever read … I caused a commotion on a train, I was laughing that hard.

Adrian Chiles, Radio 5Live

Think of it as Bill Byron, minus quite a few pounds, on a bike

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