Running marathons back-to-back, sleeping by the side of the road, giving presentations to remote schools that had never been visited by their own kinsfolk, this is the remarkable story of personal endurance that gives an engrossing insight into the people & wildlife of South America. It is the story of two everyday runners, Katharine & David, who decided to take on a continent & learn how to run again
- barefoot, pushing their bodies & minds to levels they had never considered possible in a bid to become the first in the world to run the length of South America, to give a voice to the wildlife & wildernesses they adore. Running laid them bare, stripped them of the shell people journey within, so all they had to rely on was their own bare feet. Yet this very vulnerability provided the key to unlocking communities who would fling open their doors, tuck them under their wings & whisper their secrets. Amazing animals accompanied them: gigantic vaulting stick-insects; cackling macaws who wheeled & pirouetted in the sky, desperately trying to gain a better view of them; & a giant anteater whom they stalked through a snake-infested swamp, so they could stand within an arm`s length as he devoured termites upon the end of his long sticky tongue. It was also an animal, if one of the most diminutive, that nearly succeeded in ending their dreams of conquering the continent
- an ant! But when their joints & muscles were screaming, when they couldn`t stand the sight of one another & when prickly heat, blisters & tropical ulcers infested their skin, it was the wildlife & wildernesses that pulled them through. Day after day, for months on end, running from freezer through desert & into the biggest rainforest on earth, they survived hurricane-force winds, near 100% humidity, swarms of biting insects & some of the most crime-ridden places on the planet. The expedition nearly cost them their marriage, health, sanity & lives. But somehow, they made it to the other end of the continent, 6, 504 miles & 15 months later, when they splashed into the warm & much-dreamed of Caribbean Sea.

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Jean Patrick dreams of running in the Olympics, & with gruelling training he soon beats a world qualifying time. But his chances of success are threatened by the ethnic tensions erupting all around him. When Hutu violence against Tutsis finally crescendos & his homeland Rwanda is wracked by unforgivable atrocities, Jean Patrick, a Tutsi, has no choice but to run for his life abandoning fatherl&, family, & the woman he loves. Finding them again will be the race of his life. ...

Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of becoming the first Rwandan to run in the Olympics. But Jean Patrick is a Tutsi & his kind are not supposed to win. When the president's assassination plummets the country into sudden & bloody chaos
- Hutu against Tutsi, neighbour against neighbour
- Jean Patrick is left without protection & without any choice. Now he must run: from his home, from his family, from the woman he loves. Finding them again will be the race of his life. Evoking the raw beauty of Rwanda & the tragedy of its recent past, Running the Rift is a truly stunning novel of a people's trauma, of lives lost, & of loves salvaged.

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In ” Running the Show”, the British Empire of old is re-examined, with Stephanie Williams looking at the men governing the Empire in the nineteenth century, how they were chosen & controlled, & just how they managed to do it. From Fiji to the Falkland Islands, from Malaysia to Australia & South Africa, from Lagos to Ottawa, ordinary British men & women, with no training, were dispatched to strange places, among strange people & faced unimaginable conditions. Some started wars. Others fought disease, injustice & slavery. Many died or went mad. ” Running the Show”, drawing on vast unpublished sources, reveals the day-today lives, griefs & triumphs of governors at the height of the British Empire as they struggled to make sense of their charges &, frequently, themselves. ...

It is the world`s most iconic road race. It is twenty-six-point-two miles of iconic landmarks, cheers, tears, sweat, pain, courage, determination & inspiration. It is triumph over adversity on a colossal scale. It is the London Marathon
- & it`s an event unlike any other. Running The Smoke tells the story of what it`s like to take part in this race in the most enlightening & enriching way possible: from the perspectives of twenty-six different people who have participated in it since its inception in 1981. Candid & inspiring if you are preparing for your first marathon or your 100th, Running The Smoke will give you the encouragement, insight & belief you need to cross that line.
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” Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year”
- This is shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. After years of
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Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year. It is shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. Best New Writer category at the British Sports Book Awards. After years of watching Kenyan athletes win the world`s biggest long-distance races, Runner`s World contributor Adharanand Finn set out to discover what it was that made them so fast
- & to see if he could keep up. Packing up his family, he moved to Iten, Kenya, the running capital of the world, & started investigating. Was it running barefoot to school, the food, the altitude, or something else? At the end of his journey he put his research to the test by running his first marathon, across the Kenyan plains. This edition

Includes:: a new chapter covering the 2012 Olympics.


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Jonny Bealby was devastated when his fiancee Melanie died unexpectedly while they were travelling in Kashmir. Two years later, still heartbroken & utterly disillusioned, he took on the challenge of a lifetime. Setting out with only his motorbike for company, he began a daring & dangerous journey around the African continent in a desperate attempt to unearth some meaning in his life. Bittersweet, bold & beautifully told, Running with the Moon is a tale of true love & loss, of exploration, adventure & courage. ...

` Most of the serious thinking I have done over the past twenty years has been done while running.` Mark Rowlands has run for most of his life. He has also been a professional philosopher. & for him the two
- running & philosophising
- are inextricably connected. In Running with the Pack he tells us about the most significant runs of his life: from the entire day he spent running as a boy in Wales, to the runs along French beaches & up Irish mountains with his beloved wolf Brenin, & through Florida swamps more recently with his dog Nina. Woven throughout the book are profound meditations on mortality, middle age & the meaning of life. This is a highly original & moving book that will make the philosophically inclined want to run, & those who love running become intoxicated by philosophical ideas.

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Running: Cheaper than Therapy is a witty & expertly compiled compendium of running wisdom & humour. From a short jog that lifts your mood to the closing stages of a marathon when you feel physically exhausted butemotionally invincible all at once, running delivers every time. Running: Cheaper Than Therapy is a celebration of the pastime that always makes you feel better. Covering every aspect of running life from jogging etiquette & the things we both love/hate about it, through to the weirdestand wonderful marathons around the world. Also included are the funniest spectator signs ever, cool advice that could improve your PB & brilliantly insightful running philosophies. Complete with guest contributions from parkrun founder Paul Sinton-Hewitt, political strategist Alastair Campbell, Olympian Liz Yelling & comedian David Baddiel, this brilliantly knowing compendium will be appreciated byjoggers, triathletes & runners who know the joy of putting on a pair of trainers & getting out there. ...