John Andrews 

John’s memoir of fishing and family loss, FOR ALL THOSE LEFT BEHIND was published by Mainstream in September 2002.

John was Marketing Manager for Creation Records throughout its phenomenal heyday.  In 1992 John’s father died young, from cancer.  The experience stripped away from him all the certainties that gave his life its equilibrium and increasingly he felt the presence of his father’s ghost looming over his life like an unanswered question.  It was only when he threw himself back into his childhood pursuit of fishing, which he had shared with his father, that he started to find the catharsis and the resolution he needed.

FOR ALL THOSE LEFT BEHIND is a moving but unsentimental account of this emotional journey which leads along the riverbanks of Britain and takes us as far afield as the waters off the coast of Cuba.  The book is populated with the strange and beautiful creatures - Pike, Roach, Barracuda, Wahoo - that John encounters on this modern odyssey.  It is a book that brings the world of the angler to electrifying life, and suggests that, ultimately, fishing really can be a matter of life and death.