TELLING TALES: 2010 A YEAR IN CARP FISHING. The Korda Yearbook.

2011 (February) 1st edition. Landscape 4to (302 x 216mm). Pp200. Colour photographs throughout. Matt laminated pictorial boards.

Carp angling tales from the Korda team. Stories of carp angling sessions around Britain and Europe, all well-illustrated with good colour photographs. This first edition was limited (!) to 5000 copies of which 45 (or 46, depending on who you believe) were bound in leather. The publisher's blurb states that this "is the first in what will be a long-running series of yearbooks that will build into an entertaining and informative series". It would appear, however, that following the publication of the second book (Telling Tales: 2011 A Year in Carp Fishing) the series was shelved. Chapters include:- Rollercoaster by Danny Fairbrass; Into the calm blue... by Damian Clarke; The close-in common by Elliot Gray; Spring in wonderland by James Armstrong; Four seasons by Etienne Gebel; Waiting for single (part one) by Tom Dove; Waiting for single (part two) by Neil Spooner; Always have a Stella after a bream by Ali Hamidi; Bluewater odyssey by Paul Harris; The key to success by Jens Berntsen; The uncommon common by Clive Gibbins; The life and times of an overnight angler by Jon Mann; Carp and the hand of fate by Richard Stewart; One week, two forties by Ian Bailey; The beast from the east by Darrell Peck; Manor Magic by Adam Penning.