Eamon Carr's The Origami Crow, Journey Into Japan, World Cup Summer 2002 is published by The Seven Towers Agency, whose wares can be ordered from www.colmbia.ie if you can’t find them in your local bookshop.

According to the PR blurb, when not trying to work out what the bejaysus was going on between Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy, Carr “followed his own private journey - a lifelong quest to visit the shrines and places of the famed poet Matsuo Basho, recognised master of haiku.”

The book, which is an absolute joy, will cost you a mere €20.

Other forthcoming Seven Towers titles include Somewhere Down The Crazy River: On The Waves With Radio Caroline by Phantom 105.2’s Steve Conway who, like Hot Press’ Stuart Clark, served time on the legendary offshore pirate that was founded in the ‘60s by Irishman Ronan O’Rahilly and is also the subject of a new Richard Curtis film, The Boat That Rocked.