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A hymn to hardware, charming, lyrical' - The Sunday Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A paean to DIY' - The Times 'Strung together very agreeably, with dry wit and, dare I say it, considerable polish' - Country Life In 2018 Tom Fort's daughter-in-law took over a century-old hardware shop. The family dreamed of developing the shop into one that would become the centre of village life, that much did come true, but not in the way they had expected. In...

Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets is The Repair Shop meets The Diary of a Bookseller all conveyed in Tom Fort's signature easy-going writing style.

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Tom Fort, former angling correspondent for the Financial Times, is one of the most incisive and funny fishing writers in Britain today.This sparkling collection of his writings finds Tom at Ceausescu's bear-hunting lodge in Romania, at a fishing auction in the Home Counties, being thwarted by a bunch of hard-mouthed Brazilian dourado, on a press freebie in Scotland and in a terrible state on the Kennet - not to mention conducting a fantasy cel...

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The story of one of the country's most loved - and loathed - roads.

A peek into the secret, silent world of rivers and lakes and an introduction to the incredible variety of freshwater fish that inhabit them.

Peer into the secret, silent world of the freshwater fish and explore evolution of the art and industry of fishing in Britain's rivers and streams.

A whimsical, funny and informative travelogue by pedal power of a variety of villages across our nation that encapsulate, or showcase, all the best elements of what could be seen as the English village.

Paperback edition of the travelogue charting Tom Fort's journey along the British coastline from Dover to Land's End. Brings to life the history its 350-mile length, and appeared on BBC Radio 4' Book of the Week. From the author of "The A303: Highway To The Sun".

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Tom Fort read English at Balliol College, Oxford before going on to work as a reporter on a newspaper and then on to the BBC where he worked for over 20 years. He is married with five children and is the author of four other books. (Under the Weather published by Century and The Grass is Greener, The Far From Compleat Angler and The Book of Eels, published by Harper Collins).

A humorous journey around Britain to uncover the history of the eccentrics, crackpots and visionaries who have tried to measure and predict the weather, meeting people obsessed with the weather today, and trying to define the effect of the weather on the national character. "From the Hardcover edition.

A whimsical, funny and informative travelogue by pedal power of a variety of villages across the UK that encapsulate or showcase many of the best elements of what could be seen as the English village. Considers over 6000 years of communal existence.

Tom Fort revisits Eastern Europe, 20 years after his first tour. Then, Czechoslovakia still existed, Russia was the USSR and the Warsaw pact had not been dissolved. He was keen to find out what had changed, and how the people and way of life had moved on. He also found time for a spot of fishing along the way... From the author of "Under The Weather" and "Downstream".