Start Your Engines

Oct 9, 2024 6:26 AM

Author:Sam Briggs

Start Your Engines

INCLUDES AN UPDATED CHAPTER ON THE 2020 SEASON

You don't get biceps like Briggs by giving up when the going gets tough...

CrossFit superstar Sam Briggs, aka 'The Engine', is a true hero in the sport, with a level of endurance unparalleled in the game. This is the story of how she got to the top, and battled with everything she had to stay there.

Sam's memoir takes in the whole story, from being kicked out of ballet lessons as a child but being accepted on the boys' sports teams, to working as a firefighter in West Yorkshire for ten years, tackling dangerous and adrenaline-fueled situations on a daily basis, and to taking up CrossFit at the comparatively ancient age of 27. Sam tells of what it took to become champion a mere three years later, and after a year out with a broken patella. Despite the numerous setbacks and debilitating injuries that have plagued her in the years that followed, when most other athletes would have thrown in the towel, Sam has fought, and continues to fight, to be the very best that she can be.

Start Your Engines is the story of how, with a combination of grit, training and dogged motivation, it's never too late to achieve your dreams.

Reviews

Vuelta Skelter is really three books in one. It's the story of Moore's own epic 2,760-mile, lung-busting, thigh-wrenching journey... It is a rich, kaleidoscopic look a the legacy of the Spanish Civil War... And it is also a tribute to Berrendero - a tough, dour loner who refuses to give an inch, either to the mountains or to the authorities... Moore wants to restore JB [Berrendero] to his proper place in the ranks of cycling legends. He succeeds superbly.

—— Roger Alton , Daily Mail, *Book of the Week*

Marvellous

—— Richard Peploe , Road.cc

Reading Tim Moore is a joy... you will belly laugh at the bedraggled, gazpacho-guzzling figure Moore cuts in Vuelta Skelter... he emerges as a two-wheeled Groucho Marx and a thoughtful Simon Schama combined.

—— Iain Marshall , Cycle

Vuelta Skelter's style is colloquial, full of jokes... the narrative races along like Berrendero on a good day... a valuable portrait of those post-war years of murder and hunger, and the modern Spain that still hardly dares mention them.

—— Michael Eaude , Times Literary Supplement

Vuelta Skelter...[is] his best cycling book yet. The mixture of the hilarious and the harrowing really shouldn't work but, in the hands of a writer as skilled as Moore, it deftly combines his trademark mischievous wit and a love of cycling.

—— Cycling Plus

The queen of just-one-more-chapter, Ruth Ware, has done it again.

—— Clare Mackintosh

I absolutely loved ONE BY ONE! Impossible to put down and perfectly claustrophobic and gorgeously atmospheric. Each twist was perfectly cued and plotted, showing Ruth to be the master storyteller we all know.

—— Gytha Lodge, author of She Lies in Wait

A fabulous psychological thriller and I loved the snowy setting! Incredibly tense and kept me guessing to the end

—— Emily Koch, author of If I Die Before I Wake

One of the best thriller writers around.

—— Independent

An epic talent

—— Heat

One By One has all the elements of a classic crime novel, brilliantly reinvented for the modern era with a dramatic setting, pin-sharp characterisation and up-to-the-minute plotting. It is fast-paced, astute and utterly compelling.

—— Jane Casey, author of The Cutting Place

Blisteringly good

—— Alison Flood, Observer

Sly satire and some bracingly unpleasant characters make for a fun read

—— Jake Kerridge, Sunday Express

With Ruth Ware, you always know to expect the unexpected... in her latest offering, Ruth goes full tilt cutting edge... the action is breakneck, the pace is breath-taking and the need to know whodunnit is all consuming

—— Lisa Jewell, Foyles, *Books of the Year*

A high-tension treat with a Christie-ish twist... Cold sweat stuff!

—— Alex Gordon, UK Press Syndication

A brilliant thriller

—— Bella

A thoroughly enjoyable and consistently inventive wintertime mystery

—— John Williams, Mail on Sunday

One by One goes full-tilt cutting-edge... Definitely one to be read in one sitting under a fur throw with a mug of mulled wine to hand

—— Lisa Jewell, Daily Express, *Books of the Year*

Greed, ambition, manipulation, secrets, nifty plotting and a cracking denouement add up to a suspenseful and spine-tingling page-turner

—— Guardian

An engaging page-turner that will keep you guessing

—— Daily Express

One By One is a galloping read packed with dark secrets and all the page-turning prowess you would hope for from a psychological thriller and murder mystery

—— Susan Swarbrick, Herald

The Queen of the modern murder mystery returns with a delicious homage to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None

—— RED

Agatha Christie fans will love this ingenious thriller...the pace is fast and furious and the twists satisfying

—— Good Housekeeping

Books shouldn't really be gobbled down like cake but with Ware's there's no other way

—— Metro

Ware's novel is deliciously sly

—— Joan Smith, Sunday Times

This engaging page-turner keeps you guessing

—— Paul Donnelley , Sunday Express

Writing with such honesty is a trademark of [Winn's] style

—— The Marshwood Vale Magazine

'9 new books to read this September'

—— SheerLuxe

Powerful

—— Writers Forum

Beautiful

—— Herald

'Country Life Book of the Week'

—— Country Life

Down to earth yet astonishing . . . touching

—— This England

So beautifully told

—— i

Want a book that's going to leave you chilled to the bone? This is it!

—— Fabulous Magazine

Sarah Pearse's chilling debut is making waves. The Sanatorium certainly has an eerie, cinematic appeal [...] With whispers of The Shining in setting and The Girl on the Train in pace.

—— Vanity Fair

I absolutely loved The Sanatorium - it gave me all the wintry thrills and chills. It was just wonderful.

—— Lucy Foley, bestselling author of THE HUNTING PARTY and THE GUEST LIST

Genuinely scary and deliciously atmospheric, and one of the best books of 2021, this international bestseller is guaranteed to give you goosebumps.

—— Woman & Home

What a page-turner! Like Agatha Christie crossed with Scandi noir, and doing with Swiss mountains what Jane Harper books do with the Australian outback. Loved it, and can't wait for the next Elin book!

—— Andrea Mara, author of ALL HER FAULT

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