Author Patricia Nicol reveals a selection of the best books about: Rivers
Author Patricia Nicol reveals a selection of the best books about: Rivers
My brother recently booked a day of fishing – then had to give up after runoff from a nearby construction site polluted the river.
This was Scotland’s Royal Dee, historically one of the world’s most celebrated salmon grounds.
The beat my brother played on was near Birkhall, the beloved home in Aberdeenshire that King Charles inherited from his grandmother.
Once Upon A River, by Diane Setterfield, is a magical Victorian story about the Thames
Recently, anti-pollution campaigners expressed contempt over a £10bn pledge from the water companies to clean up their act.
Go As A River, by Shelley Read, evokes a time and river far from these shores, but also one that has been adversely affected by human intervention
Apologies for years of tainting our seawater and rivers with spilled sewage, suggested Feargal Sharkey, the former Undertones frontman and passionate fisherman, who has raised awareness of the perilous state of Britain’s once pristine waterways.
Go As A River, by Shelley Read, evokes a time and river far from these shores, but also one that has been adversely affected by human intervention.
The setting is Iola, Colorado, a deserted city sunken beneath the surface of the Blue Mesa Reservoir.
In the novel, the heroine, Victoria Nash, looks back to 1948, when her family grew peaches that were famous throughout the region, and before the flood of the Gunnison River.
She recalls a life-changing chance encounter with a young traveler of Native descent, Wilson Moon, whose mantra is “Go as a river.”
Once Upon A River, by Diane Setterfield, is a magical Victorian story about the Thames.
Not the wide, murky industrialized waterway that runs through London, but the rural upper reaches of Oxfordshire.
One night, an injured man stumbles into the Olde Swan in Radcot, a mysterious girl in his arms. Who is she and what is her story?
Offshore, by Penelope Fitzgerald, who won the Booker Prize in 1979, is set in a community of houseboat dwellers on the Thames.
Some are there like a romantic wheeze; but others are disconnected from society and live aboard a leaky ship because that’s all they can afford.
All three of these novels are books to count on.