Blinkin' 'ell: Stevie Fisher's Roughest Ride

Blinkin' 'Ell is both a celebration of life and a cautionary tale. It is a raw, boisterous, untutored, un-ghosted scrapbook of memories from a man whose world seemed to have ended in August 2014 when a massive stroke left him permanently incapacitated with only his left eyelid for communication. It tells of how, once he found his niche as a champion farrier, Stevie Fisher burned the candle at both ends, in the saddle, at the races, or at many another jape on his countryman's horizon. The addictive wonder is not just that Stevie has, blink by blink, letter by letter, brought us these stories of his old great times and of his present grotesquely bad, but that he has done so with all the over-the-top verve of the cheering, galloping figure whose pictures on the wall contrast so vividly with the shrivelled Stephen Hawking body on the bed. Stevie Fisher took a lot out of life. Read Blinkin' 'Ell and be amazed and uplifted by how much he still has.

Brough Scott has written and edited many books including Warrior, The Amazing Story Of A Real Warhorse and his most recent, Churchill At The Gallop, a unique new look at 'The Most Famous Briton'. He edited but did not write this one. He still features on ITV Racing and writes for the Sunday Times having started out with both operations 50 years ago following an earlier life as both an Oxford graduate and a professional jockey.