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Racing old men on butchers' bikes and being chased by cows, Moore soon resorts to standard race tactics - cheating and drugs - in a hilarious and moving tale of true adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201520599218,"sku":"9780224092111","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780224092111_dcecec02-1a97-47bf-bf04-ce34253aeab0.jpg?v=1786012165"},{"product_id":"9780099433866","title":"Do Not Pass Go","description":"\u003cp\u003eA book that tells the story of London since the thirties through the 28 streets, stations and utililties of the Monopoly board. In the wonderful world of Monopoly it still only cost -50 to buy a house in Islington, you can move around London with the shake of a dice and even park your car for free. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDo Not Pass Go\u003c\/i\u003e Tim Moore, belying his reputation as a player who always paid that -10 fine rather than take a Chance, fearlessly tackles the real thing and along the way tells the story of a game and the city that frames it. Sampling the rags and the riches he stays in a hotel in Mayfair and one in the Old Kent Road, enjoys quality time with Dr Crippen in Pentonville Prison and even winds up at the wrong end of the Water Works pipe. And, solving all the mysteries you'll have pondered whilst languishing in jail and many other you certainly wouldn't, Tim Moore reveals how Pall Mall got its name, which three addresses you won't find in your A-Z and why the sorry cul-de-sac that is Vine Street has a special place in the heart of Britain's most successful Monopoly champion. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stirring travelogue of one man's erratic progress around those 28 streets, stations and utilities, \u003ci\u003eDo Not Pass Go\u003c\/i\u003e is also an epic and lovingly researched history of London's wayward progress in the 66 years since the launch of the world's most popular board game\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56223299371381,"sku":"9780099433866","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780099433866_5ca73ebb-7260-4a36-8822-d4daafd86e5a.jpg?v=1786011651"},{"product_id":"9780099471943","title":"Spanish Steps","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLudicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational, \u003ci\u003eSpanish Steps\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries to walk all the way across a very large country, with a very large animal who doesn't really want to.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeing larger than a cat, the donkey is the kind of animal Tim Moore is slightly scared of. Yet intrigued by epic accounts of a pilgrimage undertaken by one in three medieval Europeans, and committed to historical authenticity, he finds himself leading a Pyrenean ass named Shinto into Spain, headed for Santiago de Compostela.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver 500 miles of extreme weather and agonising bestial sloth, it becomes memorably apparent that for the multinational band of eccentrics who keep the Santiagan flame alive, the pilgrimage has evolved from a purely devotional undertaking into a mobile therapist's couch.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Hailed as the new Bill Bryson, he is in fact a writer of considerably more substance and the jokes come thick and fast' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56223555125621,"sku":"9780099471943","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780099471943_780cb4b9-b316-4e18-a9e7-ef577849a07d.jpg?v=1786011212"},{"product_id":"9780099546931","title":"You Are Awful (But I Like You)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWould you cheer if they sent you to Coventry? \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCould you stick up for Stoke or big-up Bracknell?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan you handle the thrill of Rhyl, the heaven of Hull or the mirth of Tydfil?  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eYou are Awful\u003c\/i\u003e, Tim Moore drives his Austin Maestro round all the places on our beloved island that nobody wants to go to – our most miserable towns, shonkiest hotels, scariest pubs, and silliest sea zoos... \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut as the soggy, decrepit quest unfolds he finds himself oddly smitten, and the result is a rousing, nostalgic celebration of mad, bad \u003ci\u003eBut I Like You \u003c\/i\u003eBritain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56224135512437,"sku":"9780099546931","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780099546931_a0b85e7e-3bf4-45c7-9230-9f276a50574a.jpg?v=1786011583"},{"product_id":"9780224100212","title":"The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold","description":"\u003cb\u003e'Bill Bryson on two wheels' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eScaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, Tim Moore tackles the 9,000km route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping bike. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAsking for trouble and getting it, he sets off at the Arctic winter's brutal height, bullying his plucky MIFA 900 through the endless and massively sub-zero desolation of snowbound Finland. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaunted throughout the journey by the border detritus of watchtowers and rusted razor wire, Moore reflects on the curdling of the Communist dream, and the memories of a Cold War generation reared on the fear of apocalypse - at a time of ratcheting East-West tension. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter three months, 20 countries and a 58-degree jaunt up the centigrade scale, man and bike finally wobble up to a Black Sea beach in Bulgaria, older and wiser, but mainly older.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56227607052661,"sku":"9780224100212","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780224100212_dca436a8-dfe1-49fb-a3fa-305a52358b5c.jpg?v=1786012209"},{"product_id":"9780349111407","title":"Frost On My Moustache","description":"\u003cp\u003eInspired by the swashbuckling travelogues of Victorian diplomat Lord Dufferin, frail surburbanite Tim Moore sets out to prove his physical and spiritual worth before his sceptical Nordic in-laws by retracing Dufferin's epic voyage to Iceland and Spitzbergen.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDufferin's battles with icebergs, polar bears and the deep potations of hospitable Norsemen is a tale of derring-do; Moore's struggle against seasickness, vertigo and over-priced groceries is all too plainly one of derring-don't.  As his bid to emulate the Empire tradition of fearless pluck in the face of adversity crumbles before haughty Icelandic skippers, a convoy of Norwegian Vikings and Spitzbergen's Soviet ghost towns, he finds himself transferring his affections to Dufferin's valet Wilson, a man so profoundly gloomy that 'he was seen to smile but once, when told that his colleague, the steward, had been almost thrown overboard'.  As Moore says, 'Dufferin seems the personification of Kipling's 'If'.  I'm more of a 'But... 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Tim Moore travels through 45 cities in the steps of a larger-than-life Jacobean hero incidentally responsible for introducing forks to England and thus ending forever the days of the finger-lickin'-good drumstick hurlers of courts gone by.  Coryate's early 17th century bawdy anecdotes include being pelted with eggs, pursued by a knife wielding man in a turban and, finally, being vomited on copiously by a topless woman with a beer barrel on her head:- For once, Tim Moore has no trouble keeping up the modern-day side. And his authentic method of travel to replicate these adventures?  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Armed only with a fan belt made of cotton, wooden wheels and a trunkload of ‘wise-ass Limey liberal gumption’, his route takes him exclusively through Donald-voting counties, meeting the everyday folks who voted red along the way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe meets a people defined by extraordinary generosity, willing to shift heaven and earth to keep him on the road. And yet, this is clearly a nation in conflict with itself: citizens ‘tooling up’ in reaction to ever-increasing security fears; a healthcare system creaking to support sugar-loaded soda lovers; a disintegrating rust belt all but forgotten by the warring media and political classes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith his trademark blend of slapstick humour, affable insight and butt-clenching peril, Tim Moore invites us on an unforgettable road trip through America. 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