Szerző Paul Torday

The novel begins as Michael, a middle-aged man of means, is dressing for dinner at a friend's country house in Ireland. As he descends the grand staircase, he spots a small painting of a landing with an old linen press and the white marble statue of…

Hector Chetwode-Talbot, Eck to his friends, has left the army after a rather nasty moment in Colombia. From a privileged background, he is slightly at a loss as to what to do next, when he is approached by an old army pal, Bilbo Mountwilliam. Bilbo runs…

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…

PAUL TORDAY se narodil roku 1946 a vystudoval anglickou literaturu na Pembroke College v Oxfordu. Následně celých třicet let pracoval ve strojírenství. Před nedávnem své zaměstnání opustil, aby si splnil svou tajnou touhu stát se spisovatelem. Do světa…

Paul Torday regénye 2007-ben elnyerte a Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse díjat – Nagy-Britannia egyetlen szórakoztató irodalmi díját –, amely P. G. Wodehouse-ról kapta a nevét. Díja egy láda Bollinger pezsgő és egy malac volt, amelyet regénye után neveztek…