Tales from the Tillerman : A Life-long Love Affair with Britain's Waterways

"Haywood imprints his inimitable humour on his descriptions of the people and places he meets along the way." BBC Countryfile magazine

Steve Haywood has been cruising the inland waterways for fifty years, and has amassed a following of readers keen to hear about his travelling tales on Britain's beautiful canals and rivers. His previously published books – Narrowboat Dreams, One Man and a Narrowboat, Too Narrow to Swing a Cat and Narrowboat Nomads – have all been hugely enjoyed by those with a desire for a narrowboat narrative told in Steve's witty, charming style.

Tales from the Tillerman is Steve's tribute to Britain's canals, rivers and countryside and a celebration of Britishness in all its eccentric glory. Unlike Steve's previous titles, which have each focussed on one particular journey, this book casts the net wider, drawing from his full fifty years of experience and recounting the many hair-raising escapades he's had up and down the country, while reflecting on how Britain and the cruising landscape have changed over those five decades.

Anecdotes and light-hearted rants aplenty, mixed with some tall tales and a smattering of the nostalgic – you'll be thoroughly entertained as a middle-aged man (oh, go on then, an old one) reflects on his long love affair with boats and waterways, contemplating their importance to his life and how they've changed it.