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Paul Torday SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN Signed Hardback
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First UK edition, seventh print hardback published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2007. Signed by Torday on the title page
First UK edition, seventh print hardback of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN, by Paul Torday and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London in 2007. Signed by Torday on the title page.
The book is in very good condition (Clean blue cloth boards with silver lettering on the spine), with minor wear to the illustrated dust jacket which is not price clipped (light rubbing to the corners and a one inch closed tear to the top edge at the back). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
Paul Torday was born in 1946 and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle and Pembroke College, Oxford, Torday turned to fiction writing only later in life, and his first novel was published at the age of 59. Prior to that he was a successful businessman living in Northumberland. The inspiration for the novel stemmed from Torday's interest in both fly fishing and the Middle East.
From these two strands, he weaves a political satire that centres on the world of political spin management. Paul Torday burst on to the literary scene in 2007 with his first novel, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, an immediate international bestseller that has been translated into 28 languages and has been made into a film starring Ewan McGregor, Kristin Scott Thomas and Emily Blunt.
His subsequent novels, The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce, The Girl on the Landing, The Hopeless Life Of Charlie Summers, More Than You Can Say, The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall and Light Shining in the Forest, were all published to great critical acclaim.
He died at home in December 2013.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2007, was shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Newcomer of the Year, 2008 and a Richard and Judy Summer Read Selection.
"An extraordinary, beguiling bestselling tale of fly-fishing and political spinning, of unexpected heroism and late-blooming love...
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' - who finds himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to the Highlands of the Yemen - a project that will change his life, and the course of British political history for ever.
With a wickedly wonderful cast of characters - including a visionary Sheikh, a weasely 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."
'[Salmon Fishing...] captivates the grumpiest reader within moments...if you imagine The Office crossed with Yes, Minister, you may get some inkling of how very funny it is...the intelligence, inventiveness and humanity of this novel in comparison to the usual run of literary fiction is as wild salmon to the farmed.' - Amanda Craig TELEGRAPH
'This highly original novel blends satire with gentle humanity in a tale of what happens when idealism meets self-serving politics and bungling bureaucracy...A stunning debut.' - Clare Colvin, DAILY MAIL
'This is a book of considerable charm, an echo-chamber of a dozen different voices adroitly ventriloquised...[it's] a moral tale about the importance of believing in something and the comparative importance of everything else.' - John Walsh, INDEPENDENT
323 pages.
ISBN: 978 0 297 85158 5
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The book is in very good condition (Clean blue cloth boards with silver lettering on the spine), with minor wear to the illustrated dust jacket which is not price clipped (light rubbing to the corners and a one inch closed tear to the top edge at the back). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
Paul Torday was born in 1946 and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle and Pembroke College, Oxford, Torday turned to fiction writing only later in life, and his first novel was published at the age of 59. Prior to that he was a successful businessman living in Northumberland. The inspiration for the novel stemmed from Torday's interest in both fly fishing and the Middle East.
From these two strands, he weaves a political satire that centres on the world of political spin management. Paul Torday burst on to the literary scene in 2007 with his first novel, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, an immediate international bestseller that has been translated into 28 languages and has been made into a film starring Ewan McGregor, Kristin Scott Thomas and Emily Blunt.
His subsequent novels, The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce, The Girl on the Landing, The Hopeless Life Of Charlie Summers, More Than You Can Say, The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall and Light Shining in the Forest, were all published to great critical acclaim.
He died at home in December 2013.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2007, was shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Newcomer of the Year, 2008 and a Richard and Judy Summer Read Selection.
"An extraordinary, beguiling bestselling tale of fly-fishing and political spinning, of unexpected heroism and late-blooming love...
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' - who finds himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to the Highlands of the Yemen - a project that will change his life, and the course of British political history for ever.
With a wickedly wonderful cast of characters - including a visionary Sheikh, a weasely 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."
'[Salmon Fishing...] captivates the grumpiest reader within moments...if you imagine The Office crossed with Yes, Minister, you may get some inkling of how very funny it is...the intelligence, inventiveness and humanity of this novel in comparison to the usual run of literary fiction is as wild salmon to the farmed.' - Amanda Craig TELEGRAPH
'This highly original novel blends satire with gentle humanity in a tale of what happens when idealism meets self-serving politics and bungling bureaucracy...A stunning debut.' - Clare Colvin, DAILY MAIL
'This is a book of considerable charm, an echo-chamber of a dozen different voices adroitly ventriloquised...[it's] a moral tale about the importance of believing in something and the comparative importance of everything else.' - John Walsh, INDEPENDENT
323 pages.
ISBN: 978 0 297 85158 5
PAYMENT CAN BE MADE BY CREDIT CARD VIA NOCHEX (SECURE PAYMENT PROCESSOR FOR UK & INTERNATIONAL BUYERS - NO FEES) WE ALSO ACCEPT CHEQUES OR POSTAL ORDERS IN BRITISH POUNDS AS WELL AS BANK DRAFTS ALSO IN BRITISH POUNDS
Please refer to the statement of delivery below:
* Payment by Credit Card or by postal order: item will be posted within 24 hours
* Payment by Cheque/Bank Draft: item will be posted when funds have cleared
* Combined postage if more than one item is purchased
Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions.
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Condition:Used
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Product Code:2650
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Weight:0.54kg