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Book 4 in the Terminal Chancer series – Playhappy: Fishing Heart & Soul

Playhappy is out now

All 4 books are available worldwide on Amazon. If you are in the Uk you can also buy direct from this site or Waterstones online.

I’ve reduced the price to $13 for Amazon in America. The postage costs from the UK are just too high. So US buyers pls use Amazon

Caution ! You may laugh too much

Great reviews from happy readers keep rolling in so grab a copy today.

Playhappy – Signed copies are £12 inc P&P – purchase here – synopsis below –

Playhappy – Fishing Heart & Soul

Synopsis Imagine not being on the internet or owning a mobile phone. No email address or social media. No spam or two-step verification. No hackers trying to rip you off. No adverts conjured up by AI. . . . . .now that you have pulled off that modern-day vanishing act and removed yourself from all online static, let’s take it a step further and imagine having no rod licence or even a club membership. It’s just you, a rod and a river — any river you want, any time you want. How long could you go without getting rumbled? Enter Lamont. While Boo and Lamont decipher their late friend Ahab’s journal, 50 Miles of Lies, they are quickly drawn into a game within the game as Lamont is fully unleashed upon the river, with Ahab’s book spitting out more questions than answers as they navigate their seasonal adventure of attempting to catch an Atlantic salmon on the fly. What’s your safe word?

£12.00

Signed copies for all 4 titles are available via the menu

Thanks to everyone who took the time to get in touch and let me know just how much they enjoyed the books. Phrases like – laugh out loud & couldn’t put them down – are frequently expressed by readers. It’s so kind of them to take the time to tell me. I really do appreciate it.

Each book takes me approximately four months to write. The ideas & stories within germinate over months and sometimes years before they get committed to print. I write in-between fishing trips, work, and family life.

Safe to say that Adam dug Anarchy Pie !
Connected – 1500 polluted rivers in the Uk – living in an age when kindness is seen as a weakness and tolerance is seen as a hindrance – cover painting for Playhappy – A3 hi res top quality art paper signed numbered prints £45 each

Fishing heart & soul

Juice from the first three books pulped into a 3min short by- Echo the Hare

Anarchy Pie ( 3rd book in the series )

Lo-fi adventures dancing to a post Covid frequency with a constant background static noise of fear and anxiety.

Following on from where Terminal Chancer and Hooked on Hope left off. Boo Gilbraith emerges from lockdown after choking on the splinters of Covid. Armed with a new resolve to fish more and to reinforce his own small mundane world.

Join him and his conflicted and dislocated associate Lamont as they search for life’s treasures along the banks of the river.

Postage costs are for UK customers only – International buyers please buy via Amazon

T Shirt – Smug dog – Terminal Chancer quote

Gilden heavy cotton T available S M L XL XXL – Pls email me your size requirements. Price includes postage to UK

£20.00

Taken from Anarchy Pie published in Fallons Angler
Contemplating unaided flight in Fly Culture – new writing for book 4
You’ve got powers but keep them well hidden – new writing for book 4 – published in Fallons Angler


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Live in and love the ribble valley -written two books about my love of salmon fishing. Terminal Chancer & Hooked On Hope are both still available.

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