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When not appearing on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, Paul Atterbury lives by the sea in Weymouth and writes books. Subjects range from pottery and silver to the First World War, but railways and canals remain perennial favourites.

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Great Escapes

Paul Atterbury on the life and writings of George Millar

At various times in my life, from my twenties to my fifties, I planned to travel through France by boat. As real life gradually rendered the achievement of this ambition ever more unlikely, I took to reading in a random way books by people who had done it. About twenty years ago I came across a large paperback called Isabel and the Sea. I knew nothing about it or its author George Millar, but I consumed it greedily, loving every word. It was the classic ‘through France and across the Mediterranean by boat’ book. Later, I tracked down and consumed equally greedily all the other books that George Millar had written, most of which were then out of print.

Three Girls in a Boat

Paul Atterbury on Emma Smith, Maidens’ Trip

In 1969, a friend and I rather rashly accepted a commission to produce from scratch a new set of guides to Britain’s inland waterway network. We were young, naïve, confident and in need of the money. Four years and 2,000 waterway miles later, the project was finished and the four books quickly became the standard waterway guides, still in print over forty years later.

The Rise of Appleby

Paul Atterbury on Michael Innes, The Appleby books

At various stages in my life I have succumbed to the lure of crime fiction, and I have always been a habitué of second-hand bookshops. That was how I came across Michael Innes in the late 1970s, when I bought one of his books in a green Penguin edition. I read it rapidly, instantly loved it and persuaded my wife to read it. From that moment we were Innes addicts.

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