MONSTERS OF RIVER AND ROCK: MY LIFE AS IRON MAIDEN'S COMPULSIVE ANGLER. By Adrian Smith.

2020 1st edition. 8vo (157 x 241mm). Ppx,290. Colour photograph plates, chapter heading vignettes. Black boards, spine titled in red.

Hackney lad, Adrian Smith has never let the day job get in the way of his fishing. Torn from the Grand Union Canal by unsympathetic employers, he has nevertheless managed to stay focused on putting in those necessary hours on the bank. Chapters include: Prologue; First lines; Sunday morning sidewalks - my first carp; Barbel - from black and white to colour; Battling with the beast; A very big chub; New York, New York - city rats and largemouth bass; Miami - peacock bass in the City of Vice; A Canadian adventure - trout and bears; New Zealand and the Monster of Rock; A river twenty; Pike fishing and Oasis; Sturgeon and falling over in Vancouver; Parisienne carpways; Tench - quest for a double; Jumbo jets and jumbo tench; Fishing with friends and family; High jinks on the lower Trent; Bonefish and the reverend; Epilogue. Actually a genuine angling book, with the author's musical career as background.