Charles Rangeley-Wilson

Tor Falcon: Rivers of Norfolk

Charles Rangeley-Wilson introduces a new book of drawings of Norfolk rivers by Tor Falcon When I first met Tor she...

6th October 2019

Landfill

Charles Rangeley-Wilson looks over 'Landfill' - a book about gulls and the people who watch them, written by Tim Dee,...
13th November 2018
Silver Shoals

An extract from Charles Rangeley-Wilson's upcoming 'Silver Shoals: The Five Fish That Made Britain', published next month by Chatto &...
24th September 2018
The Feather Thief

Charles Rangeley-Wilson reviews Kirk Wallace Johnson's 'The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession and the Natural History Heist of the Century' (hardback,...
21st June 2018
A letter from Charles Rangeley-Wilson

Hi Jeff, This is from across the pond but a good pal of mine – and a fishing writer too...
10th April 2018
Caught by a Stolen River

Whitehall Words and pictures: Charles Rangeley-Wilson It’s hard to be caught by a river if you can’t find the river....
5th September 2017
Shadows and Reflections - Charles Rangeley-Wilson

Shadows and Reflections: the annual collection of postings where Caught by the River’s ever-reliable contributors and friends old and new...
30th December 2014
The ‘shocking’ State of England’s Chalk-Streams 2014

Words and picture: Charles Rangeley-Wilson. Originally published on his blog on 26 November. Used with permission. Last night I was...
30th November 2014
Down The River

H.E.Bates; Down The River 144 pages with illustrations from Agnes Miller Parkers Introduction to this edition by Charles Rangeley-Wilson. H.E....
27th August 2014
Justin Partyka photography workshop

Photo: Justin Partyka Charles Rangeley-Wilson writes: It seems like the other day, but I’ve checked and it wasn’t … it...
24th July 2014

Charles was born in Africa and studied at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University. He taught art for ten years before becoming a writer, photographer and conservationist.

Charles' passions – and the usual subjects of his work – are rivers, the sea and all things fishy, natural and cultural history and landscape. And because all these things come together in rivers and also in the best waste of time ever invented – fly-fishing – Charles often writes about rivers and fishing too. He's also a bit of a petrol-head and reviews cars for Country Life magazine.

Charles' last book, Silt Road, was a story of the English landscape told through the history of a lost suburban river and a few people whose lives it shaped. The two before that, Somewhere Else and The Accidental Angler, were anthologies of fishing and travel stories, as much about place and people as fish and fishing.

Charles' new book, Silver Shoals, The Five Fish that made Britain, is a cultural and natural history of Britain through the stories of five iconic fish – cod, herring, salmon, eels and carp. It will be published in October 2018 by Chatto and Windus.

Charles' journalism has been published in various magazines and newspapers including Country Life, Countryfile, The Sunday Telegraph, The Field, Gray’s Sporting Journal, Trout and Salmon Magazine, The Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian and The Independent. He has written and presented TV shows including the critically-acclaimed BBC4 film ‘Fish! – A Japanese Obsession’ about the cultural relationship between the Japanese, fish and fishing.

Charles is passionate about conservation with a particular interest in the history, restoration and preservation of chalk-streams. When not writing he is usually trying to improve damaged rivers. Charles is an Associate Advisor to WWF UK, the founder and now a vice-president of the Wild Trout Trust and an Ambassador for the Angling Trust.

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