The Horton Chronicles 'The Banned Edition' - Freebird Publishing

GOING QUICKLY!

We said we wouldn’t be doing a re-print yet, but then we started getting more and more enquiries and realised that there were a lot of people trying to get hold of a copy, and the only way they could get one was to pay an exorbitant amount on So, we’ve decided to do a re-print, but not just a straight second re-print.  In the original book I mentioned in the Introduction that neither me, Dave or Chilly were in the book as weBay. That didn’t seem fair.

e’d written about our exploits in various publications over the years. But then people started to ask why we weren’t in there, and also why Reg wasn’t in there. We gave this a bit of thought and concluded that this was a book about the history of Horton, and that we were a large part of that history, so we really should be in the book.

To that end we have now included chapters from me, Dave, Chilly and Reg, as well as a chapter showing the full list of captures of a dozen selected fish.The five extra chapter’s amount to about 80 extra pages, and all for the same price of just £30. For those of you who aren’t collectors, and just want to read the five extra chapters, we’ll do you a deal. You send us your original copy (in good order) and we’ll let you have the new one at £20 – however, to take advantage of this you will need to ring us direct.

So, “why is it called ‘The Banned Edition’?”, I hear you ask.  Well, Chilly, Reg and I moved onto Wraysbury in 1997 and one weekend we arranged to meet Dave there, for Reg’s birthday I seem to recall. Anyway, boats were not allowed at the time, but that rule seemed to have passed us by. The short story is, we got caught and got banned. There’s even a swim named after us, where the ‘captures’ took place – The Banned.  So, the four of us, ‘The Banned’, adding our stories to the new Horton book.  Seemed logical to us!

We will print only 1000 copies of the ‘Banned’ standard hardback edition and are also going to do a NUMBERED Limited Edition hardback of just 100 copies with a special dust cover and slip case. We’re having the dust cover painted at the moment and once we have an image we’ll let you see it. The cost will be £95 each. Unfortunately these have now all SOLD OUT.

The book will be launched at Sandown in November so if you didn’t get a copy previously we suggest you order your copy now; if they go as quickly as the 1st edition did then they could be gone within the next couple of months – if not sooner. However, we will hold some copies back to actually sell on the launch date. Give us a call, send an e-mail or pre-order your copy off the website and we’ll make sure a copy is reserved for you.