Nicholas Shakespeare

Hooked for life

Will Millard’s fishing memoir, The Old Man and the Sand Eel, reminds Nicholas Shakespeare inevitably of stories of ‘Papa’

  • The Old Man and the Sand Eel

    Will Millard

    Viking, pp. 322

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