A COUNTRYMAN'S CREEL: THE REMARKABLE, THE HEART-RENDING, THE INTRIGUING, THE ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE SHORT STORIES OF CONOR FARRINGTON.

2011 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 223mm). Pp223,ad. B/w illustrations by Joseph Shepherd. Black boards, spine-titled in gilt.

This is a series of amusing short stories covering a variety of sporting social settings in Scotland and England. "A guest at a Scottish country estate is not all he seems; a solicitor with an addiction to point-to-point racing encounters a run of disastrous luck - but why is his closest friend so pleased? A fly fisherman meets the disoriented Lady Anstey in a downpour and is drawn into a threatened world; and keen wildfowler Hugh McParland is enjoying his sport on the Norfolk coast when he joins a stranger on a pleasure boat and is embroiled in a game of high stakes. Here is a collection of twelve ...country sports stories by a talented new writer."