SALMON FISHING has sold over 60,000 copies in paperback alone It was a Richard & Judy 2007 Summer Read selection THE IRRESISTIBLE INHERITANCE OF WILBERFORCE has received fantastic reviews: 'Torday's confidence in his story's power to command attention is not misplaced ... Wilberforce is well worth sampling' Independent on Sunday 'Exceptionally accomplished ... Torday has managed a near masterpiece' Daily Express 'The whole book is delightfully written ... Paul Torday is a remarkably original novelist' Evening Standard 'Marks him out as a writer of serious promise, whose achievements in this second novel hint at bigger, better works to come' Irish Times 'Grows more and more poignant as the novel progresses ... satisfyingly full-bodied and slips down a treat' Sunday Times 'A well-told tale ... Torday wryly observes Wilberforce's descent' The Times 'What makes us want to find out about Wilberforce is Torday's wonderful prose - the same simple, clear writing that made Salmon Fishing so readable' Financial Times 'Remarkably, given the bleakness of both subject and hero, it is an incredibly good read' Daily Telegraph

"Wilberforce...is good fictional company and the narrative voice Torday gives him...provides an astringently comic note" SUNDAY TIMES

Paul Torday was born in 1946 and read English Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford. He burst on to the literary scene in 2006 with his first novel, SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN, an immediate bestseller that has been sold in 19 countries.