Champion jockey AP McCoy’s new book on sale
18-times Champion jockey AP McCoy’s debut novel is on sale next week.
Taking The Fall, goes on sale on 7 November and is a “racy” thriller by the jockey
It is set in the 1970s and stars Duncan Claymore, a talented conditional jockey who is struggling with demons.
AP said he enjoyed writing the book.
“It has a good story but it is not the sort of book I would want my daughter reading as it is a little bit racy,” he wrote in his Cheltenham racecourse blog.
“I wanted to make it a little bit more interesting and make it more than just a racing book, which people would associate with just skulduggery.
“I was first asked to do the book about two years ago when Fifty Shades of Grey had just come out. I said to my wife that every woman in the world was reading that book so I decided to spice it up a little bit. There are a few racy scenes in it, and I don’t mean on horseback!
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“It is basically a revenge plot about a young jockey — who my wife says is nothing like me as he is quite good looking and a bit of a boy!”
Taking the Fall is published by Orion Books and costs £16.99 in hardback and £8.99 on eBooks.
A graduate of Exeter University, Amy joined our news team from Redpin Publishing in 2008 as news writer. She was promoted to deputy news editor in May 2013 and became news editor in April 2015. She left Horse & Hound in March 2016 to take up an editorial position in Dubai.