Stealing the Wave

I've just finished Andy Martin's Stealing the Wave. Its subtitle is 'The Epic Struggle between Ken Bradshaw and Mark Foo,' and it recounts precisely that. Martin is an interesting man - a Cambridge University don and aficionado of all things North Shore. He wrote Walking on Water nearly 20 years ago, an entertaining account of his experiences as a reporter and would-be surfer in Hawaii. I can't say what I think of Stealing the Wave just yet, because I'm reviewing it for The Times, but I can say this: the Lord on a Board makes an excellent cameo appearance.

Stealing the Wave: The Epic Struggle between Ken Bradshaw and Mark Foo is published by Bloomsbury on 5 March. See Bloomsbury for more information.