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A Twitch Upon the Thread

Writers on Fishing


  • Notting Hill Editions (Durnell)
  • by Jon Day
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.

ISBN 9781912559138 | E | HB
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Publisher Notting Hill Editions (Durnell)
ISBN 9781912559138
Author(s) Jon Day
Publication date May 2019
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 189 x 119 mm
Pages 168
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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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 contributions from Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Ota Pavel, Arthur Ransome, George Orwell, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and dozens more.