Ken lives in Texas, but for many years worked for an International Company in the UK. There he learned to appreciate the Towpath and the quiet aspects of British culture. He writes stories about people who live between places where lives move at the pace of water and weather. His Tow Path Series blends contemporary romance, paranormal, and mystery with community-driven storytelling, rooted in the everyday rhythms of life.

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James Adams was born and brought up in Coventry before attending the Universities of Durham and Bristol. He then became an Anglican minister and served in a Church of England parish for three years. Thereafter, he went into teaching at ‘A’ level, in two sixth form centres over twenty years. He became a published author in 2021, and has recently written his first book about the inland waterways.

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When I lived in Selly Oak we were a stone’s throw from the Worcester and Birmingham canal, starting on its 30 mile west-bound journey at Gas Street Basin. I walked along it often. By the time I had written five other novels set in the city, I decided it was time to take a closer look at the cut and the life that had been on it. So I began on my first canal book, The Narrowboat Girl.

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We have brought back Michael Nye as our featured Author of the Season for our Autumn Edition. Michael is not only a regular contributor of editorials for the magazine, never missing a single publication, but he has also created the Mayfly family of books, with his eleventh book, "Counting Freckles" about to hit the bookshelves.

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Newly single and plunged into life on the water, we follow Hannah as she quickly learns to live with Argie Bargie, her 45-foot narrowboat. In this compelling account of her slightly chaotic but certainly never dull life aboard, we follow Hannah as she tries to hold down a hectic career and social life while learning to navigate the strange new world on the waterways of London.

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Paul Robert Watson has been a journalist all his working life, and has now written his first novel. 'Cut to the Chase' is partially set on the canal system, in and around Braunston and the Tunnel.
The main character is an ex policeman who lives on a narrowboat, and is on the run from corrupt police and a gang of drug runners.  He makes his unlikely escape on his old narrowboat, Longfellow.

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In this book, award - winning photographer Gill Shaw celebrates the variety of people living on canals today. Through photographs and their own words, this fascinating window into a different way of life will appeal to all those who would like to know more about Britain’s canal - side inhabitants.

Gill Shaw does a great deal of work for charities, especially in Africa, and her photographic exhibition in conjunction with Canal Boat Lives was shown in London this year.
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John Evans has always been fascinated by industrial archaeology and messed up his GCEs by spending too much time watching the disappearance of steam locomotives at his native Northampton. Right from an early age he was equally fascinated by canals and took his very first colour photo at Stoke Bruerne on the Grand Union in 1965.  John has an MA in English, is a regular canal and river sailor (renting, admittedly) and is married with two equally boating-minded adult children.
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Stuart Atkinson is an amateur astronomer who lives in Kendal. He has written many books for children, both fact and fiction, and is passionate about sharing his love and knowledge of stars and the universe with campers, caravanners and boaters - with anyone who ever has the opportunity to look out on the sky at night.
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Abigail Joy Tobler’s love of waterways has, sadly, never found her on a canal boat. She has, however, paddled dug-out canoes on rivers in Mexico and Brazil. In England she has enjoyed many hours walking the Thames towpath near Henley whilst dog-sitting for friends over many years. She enjoyed watching the many passing canal boats navigating the locks, and always felt especially blessed when catching glimpses of a kingfisher.
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