This is a really interesting and original premise that will certainly make you think again about what you know about sport and perhaps make you watch it in an entirely new light

Interesting and revealing... the most accurate description of what being a highly-regarded domestique in the modern peloton is really like'

One of the hardest working domestiques in the sport

Couldn't put it down…the best insight into the peloton since Paul Kimmage’s Rough Ride

A must read. Absolutely outstanding

[Wegelius] tells it better than anyone before him

[Charly Wegelius] tell[s] it better than anyone else before him

Loved this book

Lays bare the true struggle of life on the circuit and demystifies much of cycling’s inner machinations

Lewis is a reporter of rare skill and he writes with wit and verve… It is by turns horrifying, moving and unexpectedly funny. It’s also the sports book of the year by a backcountry mile

Absorbing

Tim Lewis’ fascinating story of Rwandan cycling isn’t a typical rags to riches, triumph against adversity tale

My selection for the cycling book of the year so far. The incredible story of road cycling in Rwanda, it is a tale that quite brilliantly portrays the power of sport to effect change and roots itself in Africa’s challenge to what we mean by ‘global sport.’. Superb, a must-read

The unlikely true story of two US ex-pros who travelled to Rwanda with visions of creating Africa’s first world-beating professional cycling team

This book is an entertaining account taking in everyone from stage winners and former yellow jerseys who couldn’t hang on, to a breakaway leader who stopped for a bottle of wine and then took a wrong turn, to a doper whose drug cocktail backfired

We know the winners of the Tour de France, but Lanterne Rouge tells the forgotten, often inspirational and occasionally absurd stories of the last-placed rider