An alternative perspective, telling the stories of the fishermen who work on this treacherous stretch of coast, tales gathered over two years of interviews, many conducted in the Swordfish and Star of the title
Tom Robbins, Financial Times Books of the Year
A terrific new book about a hard and dangerous way of life
Esquire, Book of the Year
Knight has gone in search of old smells and danger and found them in spades. There are extraordinarily evocative stories here, of the mad bravado of scarred, de-fingered fishermen and the stoicism of their women... ...
Patrick Gale, Guardian
An alternative perspective, telling the stories of the fishermen who work on this treacherous stretch of coast, tales gathered over two years of interviews, many conducted in the Swordfish and Star of the title
Tom Robbins, Financial Times Books of the Year
A terrific new book about a hard and dangerous way of life
Esquire, Book of the Year
Knight has gone in search of old smells and danger and found them in spades. There are extraordinarily evocative stories here, of the mad bravado of scarred, de-fingered fishermen and the stoicism of their women... ...
Patrick Gale, Guardian
An alternative perspective, telling the stories of the fishermen who work on this treacherous stretch of coast, tales gathered over two years of interviews, many conducted in the Swordfish and Star of the title
Tom Robbins, Financial Times Books of the Year
A terrific new book about a hard and dangerous way of life
Esquire, Book of the Year
Knight has gone in search of old smells and danger and found them in spades. There are extraordinarily evocative stories here, of the mad bravado of scarred, de-fingered fishermen and the stoicism of their women... ...