Cycling Fiction

Deep down, Mark Cavendish thought he was finished. After illness, setbacks and clinical depression, the once fastest man in the world had been written off by most. And at the age of 36, even he believed his explosive cycling career would fade out with a whimper. The Manxman hadn't won a single Grand Tour stage in Italy, Spain or France since 2016. But then came his incredible resurrection at the 2021 Tour de France.

"You'll never make it!" With encouragement like that, author Mickey Thomas, in a fit of youthful testosterone, and with meticulous inattention to detail, decided to embark on a once-in-a lifetime 3,400-mile bicycle trek from Montana to Alaska. While riding through knee problems, illness, homesickness, infatuation, bad weather, and meeting a host of quirky and hilarious characters, Mickey, and his group rides over some of the roughest roads and most desolate scenery in North America. Along the way, he discovers an inner strength as well as a new physical stamina he never had.

Austin, eager to prove himself and win a sports trophy like his older brothers, joins a local cycling club and enters a Tour de France-style bike race. Not only does he have to find a bike, train, and learn the course, but he also has to deal with a bully who wants him out of the club. For Austin, it feels like a race just to get to the starting line!

Un relato humano imprescindible de esfuerzo, sacrificio y gloria de la denominada "gran generación del ciclismo español".

A Few Bicycles More is the exciting sequel to Christina Uss’s Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle. Bicycle has been back from her cross-country adventure with her robot-like bike, named Fortune, for just a month when it starts malfunctioning, insisting that they pedal away from their home in Washington, DC to Harpers Ferry in West Virginia. Once there, they discover a scrapyard where bicycles are being crushed and recycled—and it appears they are too late to save them.

Meet Erik Sheepflattener. Each member of his modern-day Viking-heritage family has a motto to live by. His parents have Family and Pride. His sisters have Conquer and Win. His grandfather has Turnip. But Erik is developing a motto he can truly believe in: Avoid Stuff. Mostly, Erik’s fierce family ignores or discounts him, especially when he tries to say no. But while spending the summer with his rough-and-tumble cousins and older sister Brunhilde in Minnesota, axe-wielding Bru gets the idea to name and Conquer all of Erik’s fears.

Anti-hero and functioning alcoholic Evie McFagan enters into a dark agreement with her estranged brother, Richard. Their family history has driven Richard to destroy creatures within a world hidden from us all. Richard wants Evie to join their murderous family business. As the siblings journey North to the wild coastline of Maine, Evie must decide where her loyalties lie—with her strange nefarious family ties? Or with the man who loves her unconditionally?

Mackinac Island is a peaceful summer resort town where everyone coasts through the streets on bicycles. But after someone sends a prominent local on her final ride, it's up to one resourceful visitor to get things running again.

Cycling through Time is about second and third chances. Trevor Rogers is one of the few people in the world who has access to his own past. Trevor's wife, Susan Rogers, a physicist, works in a highly contained government facility. The news of her pregnancy came the same week as news that Trevor had only a few months to live. The numbers all added up in her head. They did not look good.... Once she sent him to the past, they would both have to work smart and fast. When he returned from the past, they would hop into the gate together in their future.

Functioning alcoholic Evie McFagan thought her family was safe. She was wrong. Forced to choose between her estranged brother, Richard, and the family she created, Evie embarks on a dangerous journey with an unlikely ally - Nomia, the same aqua-maniac who almost killed her three years prior. But how can she trust a bloodthirsty merrow?

Nan Arbuthnot has become all too good at closing her senses to the world, obsessing over details, and controlling time down to the second. Brilliant, bipolar, and driven, Nan longs to free herself from the lockstep of her own self-imposed pursuit of excellence. When she and her friend Margot decide to crash the bar of Thomas Gellert, Nan's cycling partner, Nan discovers that she and Thomas have a sparkling dynamic that leads them to commit to what Thomas calls "the art of the long seduction".

In 1772, angry Rhode Island colonists set fire to a British ship, sparking the American Revolution. Taxation without representation was a motivator. So was the vengeful, man-eating mermaid who had it out for the commanding officer. That was then. This is now. Mermaids, or merrow, still hunt in Narragansett Bay, but these days they keep a lower profile. At night, centuries-old Nomia seduces smutty frat boys, lures them into icy waters, and feeds them to her voracious kin. By day, she and her half-breed daughter attempt to blend in at the coastal Village Playground.

Tiny is a little red fox with a passion for cycling. He rides his bright red bicycle every day. But then one morning something happens, and Tiny can’t find his bicycle. What is he going to do…? This charming story captures the importance of friendship and coming together in the face of adversity, and of sharing and giving back to your community.