The brutal murder of the Reverend George Parker in the rural village of Oddingley on Midsummer's Day in 1806 - shot and beaten to death, his body set on fire and left smouldering in his own glebe field - gripped everyone from the Home Secretary in London to newspapermen across the country. It was a strange and stubborn case.

Biking is much more than getting to places on two wheels. This book is an account of a spiritual and cathartic journey in self-examination, as for many bikers, the closeness they feel to their surroundings verges on the spiritual.

Strangford Lough is blessed with phenomenal A and B biking roads, and has along its shores 7000 years of history, visible at almost every turn. The small, slow paced towns transport one back in time.

As a previous Director of archaeological excavations, the author has both researched and published on the history of these sites and monuments, at the same time he...