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Title: Shay Elliott: The Life And Death Of Ireland's First Yellow JerseyAuthor: Graham Healy with Richard Allchin (forewords by Sean Kelly and Pat McQuaid)Publisher: Mousehold PressPages: 193Year:...

Regulars round here might be wondering what we're doing interviewing Herbie Sykes again, having already put up two interviews (Part 1, Part 2) with him barely a month ago after reviewing his new...

Title: The Eagle of the Canavese: Franco Balmamion and the Giro d'ItaliaAuthor: Herbie SykesPublisher: Mousehold Press Pages: 195Year: 2008Order: Mousehold PressWhat it is: A biography of sorts...

You've read the review of Herbie Sykes' Giro d'Italia book, Maglia Rosa, and you've read the interview with the author about the book. At the end of that interview, we added a few more questions to...

An expat Brit now living in Turin, Herbie Sykes is a fan of Italian cycling and a card-carrying member of the tifosi. His previous book, The Eagle of the Canavese, gave English-speaking cycling...

Title: The Full CycleAuthor: Vin DensonPublisher: Mousehold PressYear: 2008Pages: 160Order: Mousehold PressWhat it is: An autobiography from a 1960s domestique who rode in the service of Henri...

The 2011 Vuelta a España will be the first Vuelta in thirty-three years to visit the Basque Country. When I first realised this a few months back I wondered what had happened the last time the...

Books about the Tour de France are ten a penny. For the other Grand Tours though where do your turn to find out more about their histories? For the Giro d'Italia, your best bet is still Dino...

Just before the Vuelta a España, I took a look at Freddy Maertens' autobiography, Fall From Grace. Given Maertens' record-breaking haul of thirteen stages in the 1977 Vuelta, it seemed like a...

Sweat Of The Gods author Benjo Maso recently gave up some of his time to answer a few of our questions. Among the things he spoke to us about were the genesis of his love for cycling, his plans to...