2025 Show Schedule

NO MORE GAME FAIRS! Sorry folks - you won't be seeing me at the outdoor game fairs from now on. I attended pretty-much all of them for over thirty years, but to do them efficiently I need to carry a very large stock of books over diverse subjects, and take sufficient staff and vehicles to enable all this. The increasing homogenisation and commercialisation of the fairs (all of the major fairs are now owned and run by one company) has led to a loss of interest as far as I am concerned. The small fairs like the Fenland, the Welsh, the Irish, and the Gamekeeper's Fair have all gone, and I find myself out of sympathy with the corporate image of the new larger fairs. Covid gave me a year's break from them, but also made it more difficult to reassemble a large stock. And I'm well past retirement age and don't especially want to spend half the summer sleeping in a van!
Smaller specialised events are different. I can put together an excellent targetted stock of books on any of my core subjects, so I will continue to attend those that I can manage on my own, with just a van full of books. I formerly attended the major flyfishing events in Ireland, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands, and occasionally in Germany and Sweden. Brexit put paid to that. Luckily, the Irish Fly Fair continues, just north of the border in Enniskillen, so I'll be there.

THE STALKING SHOW. Staffordshire County Showground. April 12/13th 2025

THE NATIONAL VINTAGE FISHING TACKLE FAIR. Abbey Stadium, Redditch, B97 6EJ. Sunday May 11th 2025

FALCONRY & RAPTOR FAIR 2025. Duncombe Park, Helmsley YO62 5EB. June 28/29th 2025

THE GRAYLING SOCIETY WEEKEND. Marwell Hotel, Winchester SO21 1JY. November 8/9th 2025.

THE IRISH FLY FAIR. Killyhevlin Hotel, Enniskillen. October 25/26th 2025.

THE BRITISH FLY FAIR INTERNATIONAL. Staffordshire County Showground. February 2026
Still the biggest and the best. See you at the BFFI!