Running Through Sand: An Ageing Comedian's Ill-Thought-Out Ultra in the Sahara

'I loved every page' TIM VINE

'Hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking' TOBY JONES

'Moving, inspiring and laugh-out-loud funny' LISA JACKSON

250KM IN THE SAHARA DESERT. 2 MONTHS TRAINING. CAN AGEING RUNNER AND AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR PAUL TONKINSON CONQUER THE WORLD'S TOUGHEST FOOT RACE?

Ageing as a runner is no joke. Paul Tonkinson discovers that in running, as in life, you are gradually overtaken by a stream of young people wearing clothes you couldn't get in to and in shoes you don't recognise...