Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
- Author Paul Torday
- Narrator Fenella Woolgar, John Sessions, Samantha Bond
- Publisher Orion
- Run Time 8 hours and 35 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Contemporary romance, Fiction: general and literary, Fishing, angling, Humorous fiction, Humour, Modern and contemporary fiction, Sports and Active outdoor recreation.
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What to expect
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.
(p) 2007 Orion Publishing Group
Critics Review
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I really loved this book
Bill Nighy -
Paul Torday’s debut novel is about an impossibility…And the remarkable thing is that a book about so deeply serious a matter can make you laugh, all the way to a last twist that’s as sudden and shocking as a barbed hook…As with all good comedy, there’s a tragic underside…And there is satire…To write a novel lampooning the looking-glass world of Blairite government must have given Torday as much gruesome fun as he gives his readers…Salmon Fishing is extraordinary indeed, and a triumph.
GUARDIAN -
It’s hilarious and so well observed
Sir Christopher Meyer -
Entertaining storytelling with great characters and laugh-out-loud plot
WOMAN & HOME -
A wonderful book – a cry for humanity in our target-driven spin-riddled world
author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian -
A most diverting debut – ingenious, witty and moving, Yes Minister meets Monarch of the Glen
David Profumo
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