French Revolutions

Oct 19, 2024 5:39 PM

Author:Tim Moore

French Revolutions

‘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.

Reviews

One of the funniest books about sport ever written

—— Sunday Times

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

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

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

—— Daily Express

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

—— ShortList

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