Bonnier Zaffre imprint Piccadilly Press is adding five titles to Olympic cyclist Chris Hoy's children’s book series Flying Fergus, co-authored with author Joanna Nadin and illustrated by Claire Elsom.

When Sir Chris Hoy was a cycling-mad youngster, there was a dearth of decent reading material. These were the dark, pre-internet days of the early 1980s (“we barely had colour TV back then,” he quips) ...

My stories are all about that first taste of freedom that comes with your first bike. You dictate the pace, the destination, and it gives you a real feeling of independence. It is an important stage ...