Paul Torday

It is on a golfing trip to France that Eck first meets Charlie Summers, a fly-by-night entrepreneur whose latest scheme is to import Japanese dog food into the UK....

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....

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

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....

A Richard and Judy Summer Read Selection.
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....

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....

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....

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....