Books to READ (and places to buy them)
Great websites at which to look
The Wye and Usk Foundation - for lots of insight on their work improving our rivers
Fishing Passport - for lots of other wonderful beats to fish nearby, on the Wye and also lots of other rivers and streams nearby
Books authored locally & which will give you a flavour of fishing and of the area
- The Wye by AG Bradley, published in 1910
- On a Gentle Art by Sir Richard E Threlfall
- Fly-fishing The Welsh Borderlands by Roger Smith
- Wye Salmon and Other Fish by J Arthur Hutton
- Our Fishing Diary by J Arthur Hutton
- Tale of a Wye Fisherman by H A Gilbert
- Flyfishing for Duffers by R. D. Peck, 1934
- The Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet: by Edith Pargeter on the life of Llywelyn the Last, the last sovereign of Wales, who was captured and killed at Aberedw, by which Abernant sits :
- Sunrise in the West (1974)
- The Dragon at Noonday (1975)
- The Hounds of Sunset (1976)
- Afterglow and Nightfall (1977)
- The Welsh Princes Trilogy by Sharon Penman that covers the lives of Llywelyn Fawr, Llywelyn ap Gruffydd and Dafydd ap Gruffydd
- Here be Dragons (1985)
- Falls the Shadow (1988)
- The Reckoning (1991)
- A Salmon Fisher's Odyssey - Rivers and Reflections by Ashley Cooper
Great places to visit
- Coch-y-Bonddu - for fabulous books on fishing in Machynlleth (postcode : SY20 8DG)
- Sweets Fishing Tackle Shop for fly and tackle in Usk (14 Porthycarne St, Usk NP15 1RY)
- Sportfish for fly and tackle in Winforton, near Hay on Wye (postcode : HR3 6SP)
- Nearby Hay on Wye has lots of book shops in which you can find most of the books listed here too.
Other books authored locally
- On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
- Resistance by Owen Sheers
- A Crown of Light - Merrily Watkins by Phil Rickman
- Never Learn to Type by Dame Margaret Anstee
- Leap the Wild Water by Jenny LLoyd
- The Mysteries of Glass by Sue Gee
- Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
- The Claude Glass by Tom Bullough
- Addlands by Tom Bullough
- At the Bright Hem of God by Peter Conradie
- Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Murray
- Running for the Hills by Horatio Clare
- The Prince's Pen by Horatio Clare
The Wye and Usk Foundation - for lots of insight on their work improving our rivers
Fishing Passport - for lots of other wonderful beats to fish nearby, on the Wye and also lots of other rivers and streams nearby
Books authored locally & which will give you a flavour of fishing and of the area
- The Wye by AG Bradley, published in 1910
- On a Gentle Art by Sir Richard E Threlfall
- Fly-fishing The Welsh Borderlands by Roger Smith
- Wye Salmon and Other Fish by J Arthur Hutton
- Our Fishing Diary by J Arthur Hutton
- Tale of a Wye Fisherman by H A Gilbert
- Flyfishing for Duffers by R. D. Peck, 1934
- The Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet: by Edith Pargeter on the life of Llywelyn the Last, the last sovereign of Wales, who was captured and killed at Aberedw, by which Abernant sits :
- Sunrise in the West (1974)
- The Dragon at Noonday (1975)
- The Hounds of Sunset (1976)
- Afterglow and Nightfall (1977)
- The Welsh Princes Trilogy by Sharon Penman that covers the lives of Llywelyn Fawr, Llywelyn ap Gruffydd and Dafydd ap Gruffydd
- Here be Dragons (1985)
- Falls the Shadow (1988)
- The Reckoning (1991)
- A Salmon Fisher's Odyssey - Rivers and Reflections by Ashley Cooper
Great places to visit
- Coch-y-Bonddu - for fabulous books on fishing in Machynlleth (postcode : SY20 8DG)
- Sweets Fishing Tackle Shop for fly and tackle in Usk (14 Porthycarne St, Usk NP15 1RY)
- Sportfish for fly and tackle in Winforton, near Hay on Wye (postcode : HR3 6SP)
- Nearby Hay on Wye has lots of book shops in which you can find most of the books listed here too.
Other books authored locally
- On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
- Resistance by Owen Sheers
- A Crown of Light - Merrily Watkins by Phil Rickman
- Never Learn to Type by Dame Margaret Anstee
- Leap the Wild Water by Jenny LLoyd
- The Mysteries of Glass by Sue Gee
- Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
- The Claude Glass by Tom Bullough
- Addlands by Tom Bullough
- At the Bright Hem of God by Peter Conradie
- Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Murray
- Running for the Hills by Horatio Clare
- The Prince's Pen by Horatio Clare
