Salmo The Leaper Salmon Fishing by Hugh Falkus is one of the best angling books ever written, engaging, challenging, instructive and a joy to read. Even though times and attitudes have changed in the forty odd years since it was written it still...
Who Was Hugh Falkus? I came across Hugh Falkus when he presented the thrilling BBC documentary Salmo The Leaper in 1977, it was all about the life cycle of the salmon and how to catch it. Falkus was forthright, opinionated and assertive in his...
Well, they're my favourites... Alright, I'll admit that title is a bit disingenuous, cook books are deeply personal things, favourites are held onto for years until the spines crack and pages are rendered illegible under stains from spilled...
Little Toller books were founded to ‘to revive forgotten and classic books about nature and rural life in the British Isles.’ They do this brilliantly, reprinting some real gems of rural life, each beautifully illustrated. I first came across...
Countryman's Cooking is a cook book like no other; opinionated and archly pedantic, yet it is also probably the funniest and most heartwarming cookbook you'll ever read. William (Bill) Menzies Weekes Fowler (1914-1977) Was a bomber pilot in WWII,...
There are countless books on trees, woods and forests, that fixate on everything from their secret lives to how to make a chair out of them. But there are just a few authors that delve deep down into the green spirit of woodland and show how it is...
First published in 1950 and in print ever since, The Poacher’s Handbook celebrates a romantic age when poachers were countrymen and respected the land, sky and rivers from which they benefited. Written by John McNeillie under the pen name of Ian...
