Coch-y-Bonddu Books

21/07/2026

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A nice pallet of goodies has just arrived from America, including some first edition copies of John Gierach’s ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD. These are fine new copies with just an ink-dot on the edge of the pages, but at at an extra-special price! I found some signed first editions of THE RETURN OF TH...

25/06/2026

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I thought this hot weather might have got the mullet on the feed so I headed for the river mouth yesterday. All I caught was a smelt before my legs started burning. Jellyfish tentacles must have wrapped around me so I had stinging nettle-rash for a couple of hours. I’d missed the start of the tide...

28/05/2026

Two more nice reviews in Flydresser - the Journal of the Fly Dressers' Guild.

27/05/2026

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A set of the old Shooting Times Library series, including several dust-wrapper variants. Unaccountably Volume 17 was never published.

06/05/2026

Another nice review for David Southall's Microflies - this time in Trout & Salmon Magazine.

28/04/2026

An excellent and thoughtful review of Southall's MICROFLIES by Magnus Angus in Fishing & Fly Tying Magazine.

16/04/2026

News from Coch-y-Bonddu Books -

An old photograph of Caeheulon, my parents’ home and a place that had a great influence on my life. My mother’s book on the house and the local area is listed below, as is Mike Brown’s book on the Dylife Mines that lie at the head of the same valley. Our good friend John Mason, geologist, mete...