Messengers

‘A biography of London in 2016? A social commentary, with bicycles? An insight into a subculture most of us don t even see? Messengers is all of this and so much more.’ * World Travel Guide, Top 10 Holiday Reads * ‘The early part of Messengers reads as globalisation’s revenge on the cycling-Sisyphus who thought the symbol could start a revolution that went beyond his two wheels, revolving over and over again until they’d covered 18,000 miles.’ * Open Democracy * ‘Highly accomplished…compelling…absorbing’ * New Statesman * ‘Julian’s tales of weaving through the streets of London on two wheels bring to life the gig economy, showing how things have changed in the modern workforce but have also stayed the same. Messengers gives the reader insights on what goes on behind the grand lobbies of the UK’s banks and large companies, to see the people who really make business work.’ * Financial Times * ‘Julian’s tales of weaving through the streets of London on two wheels bring to life the gig economy, showing how things have changed in the modern workforce but have also stayed the same. Messengers gives the reader insights on what goes on behind the grand lobbies of the UK’s banks and large companies, to see the people who really make business work.’ * Financial Times *

Julian Sayarer cycled a half dozen times across Europe to his second nation of Turkiye before before breaking a world record for a circumnavigation by bicycle, and going on to write Life Cycles (2014). He is the winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Writing Award for Interstate (2016), an account of hitchhiking through middle America, and is the author of Messengers (2016), All at Sea (2017), Fifty Miles Wide (2020), Ondaatje Prize-longlisted Iberia (2021), and Turkiye (2023). Julian combines a background in political science to create a critically acclaimed travel writing style - politics at roadsides. In this 12mph view of the world in passing, he uses human stories and journeys to document global issues for a broad audience. His writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the Guardian, Financial Times, Aeon Magazine, and in numerous cycling publications.

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