A Twitch Upon the Thread: Writers on Fishing, Jon Day (Notting Hill Editions)

A Twitch Upon the Thread: Writers on Fishing, Jon Day (Notting Hill Editions)New Hardback The best fishing writing is never really about fishing, or never only about fishing, and the writers collected in A Twitch Upon the Thread use angling as a way to write about love, loss, faith, and obsession. This is an anthology of fishing writing ranging from medieval times to the present, taking the reader from riverbank to open ocean, from England to New Zealand, from the shore to the depths. Read it and be hooked. Included are

Hutton charts how the Druids have been written in and out of history

Part 2 tells a very different story in more detail

a home for 'very disturbed young men'

present and future of our planet

She looks for love through the screen of her laptop

this is a book for the whole household to read and enjoy

the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language

the ancient city of Cahokia lives on - a teeming industrial metropolis

The End of Eden invites the reader to meet wild species on their own terms in a range of ecosystems that span the globe

This reader for lovers of the piano distils his musical and linguistic eloquence and vast knowledge

Exploring the final frontier in monetization

jealously guarded by private collectors