Confessions of a Schoolboy Poacher, Adam Rayner’s first book, is now on pre-sale. Press the “Books & Mags” tab or click here: https://slingshot-world.ecwid.com/BOOK-CONFESSIONS-OF-A-SCHOOLBOY-POACHER-p560041902
It is a story of a schoolboy who read about other boys running away to the woods, in a book by “BB”, called Brendon Chase.
Like so many before him, he wanted to go poaching, by any means possible and eat the game and fish he’d caught himself.
This is the story of an obsession with pheasants and the single most awful thing anyone could ever do in a Salmon fishery. Yes, I spearfished the River Dart in a very private stretch…
I will teach you how to bung-hunt a pheasant wood and take gamebirds with nothing but your bare hands and a nimble foot!
It is beyond exciting for me to see it on sale upon the Anglebooks‘ website too…
And now it is time for me to offer it on mine, as a pre-order, since the thing has been at the printers’ for a fortnight and is due in another fortnight…
Each will come with a FREE copy of Slingshot World magazine, which will help keep the corners perfect in the post! You just select issue Five, Six or Seven, by ticking a box on the shop site here. Would you like your copy signed? Anglebooks sell the mags, too…
I promise to be over-excited and shout about it a lot, and will get all pre-orders sent out with fabulous rapid efficiency!
A huge thank you to Paul Morgan at AngleBooks for being my publisher and massive thanks to the talented Caroline and others there, who have been just lovely to deal with.
Your reward for looking this far… is the revelation that this was the same school as Richard Baker’s (news reader) son, Sascha Baron-Cohen, David Baddiel and Damon Hill. And I was taking pheasants by the brace to gift to the butcher in the foodhall at Debenhams where I had a Saturday job, as well as taking the meat to school for cookery lessons and telling Mrs. Flashman it was rabbit!
