• Phoenix
  • 9780753821787
  • $22.99
  • Paperback - B Format
  • January 2008
  • 352 pages
  • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Paul Torday

Reissue.

This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist - for whom diary-notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article on caddis fly larvae published in Trout and Salmon. Finding himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to the Highlands of the Yemen, it is a project that will change his life and the course of British political history forever.
With a wickedly wonderful cast of characters - including a visionary Sheikh, a weaselly spin doctor, Fred's devilish wife and a few thousand transplanted salmon - SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN is a novel about hypocrisy and bureaucracy, dreams and deniability and the transforming power of faith and love.

About the Author

Paul Torday was born in 1946 and read English Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford. He is married with two sons by a previous marriage and has two stepsons. He has spent most of his life in industry, but in the last three years has found the time to write. For the last fifteen years he has also been a keen salmon fisherman and as he lives close to the River North Tyne, he has been able to indulge in this enthusiasm. He lives in Northumberland and has often visited the Middle East.

Previous Books:
More Than You Can Say (Bfmt 9780753826874 Dec 11);
The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers;
The Girl on the Landing;
The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce;
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Other titles by Paul Torday

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