Paul Torday

Fisheries scientist Dr. Alfred Jones is approached by an extravagantly wealthy sheik with a novel plan....

Late one summer evening, Wilberforce - rich, young, work-obsessed and self-contained - makes an unexpected detour on the way home from the software company he owns....

Norman Stokoe has just been appointed Children's Czar by the new government....

At its heart, this is the story of a hen-pecked, slightly pompous, middle-aged scientist who is caught up in what seems like an impossible project, and of how this project changes his life....

Hector Chetwode-Talbot, Eck to his friends, has left the army and is slightly at a loss as to what to do next, when he is approached by an old army pal, Bilbo Mountwilliam....

From the best-selling author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen comes a story of inheritance, a great country house, and a way of life that is disappearing....

A gambling session ends in a bet for Richard Gaunt: can he walk to Oxford by lunchtime the next day? Gaunt sets off, but when men in a Jeep scoop him off the roadside, he enters a strange world....

Late one summer evening, Wilberforce - rich, young, work-obsessed and self-contained - makes an unexpected detour on the way home from the software company he owns....

From the best-selling author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, a ghost story, a psychological thriller and a tale of love rediscovered....

At its heart, this is the story of a hen-pecked, slightly pompous, middle-aged scientist who is caught up in what seems like an impossible project, and of how this project changes his life....