Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blood Knots | 2010 | Luke Jennings | Buy |
Luke Jennings is a British author, journalist, and dance critic best known for creating the Killing Eve novels. Before he became famous for Villanelle, he wrote Blood Knots, a memoir published in 2010 that was shortlisted for both the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Prize.
Blood Knots is about fishing, but it is also about much more than that. The book weaves together Jennings’s childhood memories of angling with his father and his adult friendship with Robert Nairac, a charismatic man who was later killed by the IRA while serving as a British intelligence officer in Northern Ireland. Jennings writes about great fish caught and lost, about probing secretive waterways at night in search of giant pike, and about the connections between fathers and sons, honor, and growing up.