From the injury and victories of Olympic cyclist Bradley Wiggins to the secret life of a suit fixer
The Chain
Bradley Wiggins, (HarperCollins)
The Tour de France winner’s memoir begins with him creeping into his walk-in wardrobe and doing a line of coke off his Olympic gold medal: the final representative descent from his crowning summer season of 2012. And yet for all the personal lows chronicled here– addiction, self-harm, the collapse of his marital relationship, the haunting memories of his tough papa and of a trainer that sexually abused him– this is not your classic suffering narrative. Roguishly humorous and disarmingly straightforward, it is a journey of rediscovery: a man knocked sidewards by the harmful winds of sporting activity and celeb, lastly finding out to stand straight again.The Escape
: The Tour, the Cyclist and Me
Pippa York and David Walsh (Mudlark)
In a previous life Robert Millar was among this country’s greatest bicyclists: a stern Glaswegian that won the King of the Mountains jersey at the 1984 Tour de France. Currently known as Pippa York, she returns to the race in the company of the reporter David Walsh. It’s a freewheeling, interesting read that resists category: part travelogue and component memoir, it dancings between past and present, sporting monitoring and self-reflection, medicines that assist you cheat and medicines that help you live. And for all the pain and misery that gets opened right here, this is a publication without a bitter or inhuman bone in its body.
Source: The Guardian