Texas is a feisty beauty from the USA, Ash is a good looking novice from Australia. They meet at a border crossing in India, they are stranded, the border guards refuse to let them through. Ash saves the day but Texas isn't ready to owe him anything not even a thank you. 'If you combine EM Fosters A Room with a View, did you catch the film, with Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, add a pinch of Nabokov's Lolita and a hint of F Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby then you would have some book and here I think you have that book, highly recommended.'

A book about a brilliant invention - the bicycle. A book about the joys of cycling, a book that peels back the myths of the cycling fraternity. A book about being a boy on a bike or a girl on a bike. A book that states that the bicycle is for everybody to enjoy. 'It's all about the adventure of road biking and contains an epic bike ride through Southern England, another through Holland and a third on the West coast of Tasmania in Australia. But there is more, if you want to know about the invention of the Bicycle, Dunlop pneumatic tires, girls bikes, the Penny Farthing, brooks saddles, the...