The Wind At My Back: A Cycling Life

If you’ve ever felt that a bike ride can unlock something deeper—memories, ideas, a sense of who you are—this book will speak to you. In this beautifully written and personal exploration, Paul Maunder looks at how cycling, creativity and landscape are all tangled together.
Riding through the places that shaped him, Maunder takes us across wild moorland, through quiet suburbs, along busy city streets and into those postcard‑perfect English scenes that feel almost dreamlike. He also leads us into the stranger, more secret corners of the British countryside—the places that spark curiosity and stir the imagination.
This is a book about how landscape holds us, how movement helps us think, and how even a short escape on the bike can open up space to dream. The bicycle becomes a companion, a creative tool, and a way to return home renewed—just in time for dinner.