{"product_id":"a-twitch-upon-the-thread-writers-on-fishing-isbn-9781912559138","title":"A Twitch Upon the Thread: Writers on Fishing","description":"The best fishing writing is never really about fishing, or never only about fishing, and the writers collected in \u003ci\u003eA Twitch Upon the Thread\u003c\/i\u003e 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, Elizabeth Bishop, and dozens more.\"This pocket-sized book is perfect for taking with you to read on the riverbank. Jon Day has compiled some of the best fishing writing from the medieval to the present day, and it is presented in a beautiful, cloth-covered volume, enhanced by elegant typesetting.\" —Alexandra Henton, \u003ci\u003eThe Field Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"[A] lovely little anthology of writing on the idle pleasure of fishing.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIdler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJon Day\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, critic, cyclist, and fisherman. He teaches English at King’s College London, and has written essays and reviews for the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003eand many others. He is a regular book critic for the \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and writes about art for \u003ci\u003eApollo\u003c\/i\u003e. His first book, \u003ci\u003eCyclogeography\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Notting Hill Editions in 2015. \u003ci\u003eHoming \u003c\/i\u003ewas published by John Murray in 2019. He was a 2018 Man Booker Prize for Fiction judge.","brand":"Notting Hill Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299711504613,"sku":"NP9781912559138","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781912559138.jpg?v=1767720887","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-twitch-upon-the-thread-writers-on-fishing-isbn-9781912559138","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}