After years travelling by train between Inverness and Edinburgh, Simon Varwell realised that he knew very little about the places he would merely pass through, and to which he would pay no attention as they rushed by in a train window blur. So over the course of six days in 2012, he travelled the line and stopped at all twenty-three stations. It was a trip that led him to the unknown, the beautiful, the isolated, the depressingly mundane, the run-down, and the haunting. From picturesque Highland villages to post-industrial towns, and from crumbling castles to dodgy pubs, a host of curious...

Simon Varwell is a man on a mission. Albeit a ridiculous one: to visit various places in the world with the word "mullet" in their name. The Return of the Mullet Hunter charts his continuing global mission, and includes his travels in England, Canada, New Zealand and the USA as he hunts down obscure backwaters linked together only by their names. It's a journey that takes him from the quiet English countryside to the Californian desert via dull suburbs and uninhabited islands. It leads Simon into the media spotlight and into the welcoming hands of people across the world keen to help this mad...

After acquiring a fascination with the dubious 1980s haircut while travelling around Eastern Europe, Simon Varwell discovered a village in Albania called Mullet, and a mission was born. From Albanian slums to the windswept landscapes of Ireland's County Mayo, the mission took him across the world in search of obscure locations - eventually creating an inadvertent media storm when the mullet hunting hit the big time Down Under in Australia. Up The Creek Without a Mullet was originally published in 2010 by Sandstone Press. Here, his first book is proudly re-issued by the author, and includes as...