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Tales from the Tillerman

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. 

Tales from the Tillerman is both his 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 that Steve has taken, Tales from the Tillerman casts the net wider and draws from his full fifty years of experience. It recounts the many hair-raising escapades he’s had up and down the country and reflects on how the country and the cruising landscape has changed in those fifty years.

In Tales from the Tillerman you’ll find anecdotes and light-hearted rants aplenty, mixed with some tall tales and a smattering of the nostalgic. 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.