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Richard Peace

Personal Information:

Name: Richard Peace

Address:

94 Bradford Road

Wakefield

West Yorkshire

WF1 2AE

Phone 01924 315147

Fax 01924 315147

Mobile 0776 2545543

Email peace_richard@hotmail.com

Website: http://www.excellentbooks.co.uk

Short biog

Took to full-time outdoor writing/photojournalism after qualifying as a solicitor and spells as an English teacher in South/Central America and Hong Kong. His 18 cycling titles include the best-selling The Ultimate C2C Guide (Sea to Sea by Bike) plus many of the country's most popular Sustrans routes. Photo-library specialises in cycling images with a stock of thousands in the UK and Europe. Strong interest in Hong Kong (author of The Maclehose Trail, a signed walking trail across Hong Kong). Skilled in the scanning and manipulation of images for print/websites for magazines and commercial publishers and in computer generated maps. High degree of skill in producing print ready full colour material.

Business interests

Proprietor: Excellent Books, specialist publishers of cycling guides. Large photo library of cycling shots

Professional activities

Regular contributor to the national Cycling Plus magazine.

Recent publications

Cyclling Southern France (2008)

The Ultimate C2C Guide (2nd edition), 2009 (eighth printing)

The Ultimate UK Cycle Route Planner 2009 (second printing)

Brompton Bicycle (2010)

Main areas of interest

All aspects of cycling from cycle safety to mountain biking.Many cycle leisure route articles and books with extensive writing experience of these throughout the UK and France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

Digital photography a speciality.

Regular visitor to Hong Kong.

Excellent Books