When Ellen MacArthur became the youngest person ever to complete yachting's most gruelling race, the Vendée Globe, she also assured herself of a place in sporting history as the fastest woma...
"No Western climber or even any Sherpas had been this high, so far this year. We were treading on virgin territory on the ever-changing surface of the glacier. The excitement welled up,...
Touching the Void and Touching Cloth. A fast moving non nonsense account of Joe Simpson's hell in Peru. Skillfully penned and remarkably forthcoming about the demons he faced then and now as...
You'll read it because it's Johnno..... .....but I'm afraid you will be disappointed. He tells us practically nothing about himself and what he does tell we already know. The book reads like...
The best book of the 1990's - hear it in full. Hornby pinpoints 1968 as his formative year--the year he turned 11, the year his parents separated, and the year his father first took him to w...
