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Road Cycling UK

‘Ventoux is a stunningly accurate depiction of male friendship told in a subtle and sensitive style. This feel-good novel about old friends who find their way back to each other is a delightful and easy read. Especially recommended for cycling aficionados who will recognize Mont Ventoux as the scene of many classic races through the years’

Battle Books

‘Instantly likeable, the heady mix of angst in Wagendorp’s characters, and their love of cycling and music coupled with a desire to leave lasting, revered legacies instantly resonated’

Seven Day Cyclist

‘A fictional cycling story with camaraderie, romance, love, intrigue and treachery. Quite brilliant!’

The Bike Lane

‘Ventoux is so convincingly written that contrivance is a factor that never once rears its potentially ugly head. The characters are thoroughly and naturally believable, as are their various interactions, while the book’s 285 pages provide compulsive reading from page one’

The Washing Machine Post

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BERT WAGENDORP (1956) is a columnist for the national newspaper De Volkskrant. His novel Ventoux was proclaimed Book of the Month by a leading Dutch booksellers panel and received unanimous rave reviews from the press, selling 100,000 copies within the first six months. The book has been adapted into a Dutch-language film of the same name. Wagendorp previously wrote the collection of stories De Dubbele Schaar (‘The Double Scissors’) and the novella De Proloog (‘The Prologue’).