LIZARRALDE: THE MAN WHO FISHED FOR BARBEL.

2005 1st edition. Small 8vo (139 x 206mm). Pp112. B/w vignette illustrations by Paul Cook, silk marker ribbon. Dark blue decorative cloth with gilt and white titles to upper board and spine, black float illustration to upper board.

"Based loosely on fact, Lizarralde follows the thoughts of a Spanish barbel angler as he fishes in 1954. The old man meanders through memories of his life during the Spanish Civil War - the imprisonment, the injustices, the suffering. Yet one constant throughout his life is the river - 'that ran through the past and through the present . . . a place where pain was numbed and where he could find peace'."