Rivers Run

<p><strong>LONGLISTED FOR THE INAUGURAL RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING</strong></p><p><strong><em>‘A master of the landscape and a celebration of a life lived with the wild’</em></strong> – Dan Kieran, author of <em>The Idle Traveller</em></p><p><strong><em>‘[Parr] writes beautifully ... gentle, often elegiac ... There is much pleasure to be taken from this book’</em></strong> - Tom Fort, <em>Gamefisher</em></p><p><strong><em>‘Yet, sitting here at the beginning of that journey, I realise there is a different path I must follow. This entails not a simple exploration of a single river, or the fish I might catch from it, but an understanding of what it is that makes someone an angler – what it is that makes me an angler. … Although I don’t always need a rod in my hand to feel as if I belong by the riverside, it was angling that helped open my eyes. And as I sit here, I can hear the river calling me, bubbling up from deep underground, sharing its secrets.’</em></strong></p><p>From childhood memories of an Exmoor stream and of the Itchen during difficult teenage years, to finding solace on the banks of the Kennet and the catharsis of a storm on the Jurassic Coast, <em>Rivers Run</em> is a love letter from Kevin Parr to the rivers and waterways that shaped him. It is a book about fishing. But it’s also a book about living, surviving the difficult times and remembering to breathe.</p><p><strong><em>‘A moving treatise on the way we deal with the dark things that life throws at us’</em></strong> - <em>BBC Countryfile</em> magazine</p><p><strong><em>‘I very much enjoyed this book ... thoughtful and interesting’</em></strong> - Mark Avery, author of <em>Inglorious</em></p>