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Cycling in the UK

The Official Guide to the National Cycle Network

Cycling in the UK( )
Author: Hastings, Selina
AA Publishing Staff,
Sustrans Staff,
ISBN:978-0-7495-6279-3
Publication Date:Dec 2009
Publisher:Automobile Association
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $39.95
Book Description:

More and more of us are turning to cycling, whether as an inexpensive, healthy and environmentally friendly means of getting to work or school, or as a way of exploring Britain's towns, cities and countryside. More than 75 per cent of UK residents live within two miles of the National Cycle Network, and a continuous program of development ......

Book Details
Pages:272
Detailed Subjects: Travel / Special Interest / Bicycling
Travel / Europe / Great Britain
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):9 x 10 x 1 Inches
Book Weight:2.83 Pounds
Author Biography
Hastings, Selina (Author)
Selina Hastings is a writer and journalist.

She was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Oxford University. Selina's first job was at Hatchards bookshop but she went on to work for fourteen years on the Daily Telegraph and for eight years as literary editor of Harper's & Queen.

Hastings has been a lecturer and visting scholar at a number of foundations and was Mellon Fellow during 2002-2003 at the Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas. From 2008-2009 Selina was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Mary's University, London and in 2009-2010 she was awarded the Dorot Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Jewish Studies.

Selina is the author of four literary biographies: Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh (winner of the Marsh Biography Prize), Rosamond Lehmann and Somerset Maugham. She has also written a number of books for children.

A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she reviews regularly and has been a judge of the Booker, Whitbread, British Academy, Ondaatje and Duff Cooper Prizes, and of the UK Biographers' Award.

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