Ted Lamb

Since training as a journalist on 1953-launched 'Angling Times' back in the heady 1960s, Ted Lamb has worked as a journalist on national and regional newspapers and magazines in Britain and Australia. His books about fishing include 'The Penguin Book of Fishing' and novels 'Brassribs' and 'Looking for Lucie' (all available separately), which are published together with 'Gobblemouth' in 'The Brightwell Trilogy'. 'Brassribs' tells the story of anglers from two generations trying to catch a legendary big carp in beautiful Brightwell Lake - in the process helping to save the estate from which the lake gets it name from being destroyed by developers. In 'Looking for Lucie', a fanatical fisherman is bent on a quest to catch a legendary pike that could be bigger than any so far caught in Britain - and man and fish finally meet in a dramatic and dangerous climax on a wild Scottish loch. 'Gobblemouth' is an exciting road movie of a book about a madcap scheme to truck a renegade giant catfish from England all the way to its original home in the River Danube. All the tales are packed with romance, bravery and adventure - great reading for everyone, not just fisherfolk! Ted's other books include 'The Fisher's Tale', recounting his walk along the pilgrim route across northern Spain from the French Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela, and 'The Prophet and the Pelicans', based on a genuinely fantastical Bible passage that points to helicopters blazing down a Middle East valley centuries before the birth of Christ! Poetry works include 'One Last Cast' -reflections on a life of fishing - and 'The Missions of Gulls' recalling personal encounters with birds of all shapes, sizes and colours!