Название:
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Автор:
Torday Paul
Жанр: проза
Описание: 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 forever. 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.
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Paul Torday Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
1
The origins of the Yemen Salmon Project
2
Extracts from the diary of Dr Alfred Jones: his wedding anniversary
3
Feasibility of introducing salmon into the Yemen
4
Extracts from the diary of Dr Jones: his meeting with Sheikh Muhammad
5
Extracts from the diary of Dr Jones: marital issues may have clouded his judgement
6
Correspondence between Captain Robert Matthews and Ms Harriet Chetwode-Talbot
7
Press comment
8
Intercepts of al-Qaeda email traffic (provided by the Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence Agency)
9
Interview with Peter Maxwell, director of communications, prime minister ’s office
10
Transcript of interview with the prime minister, the Rt Hon. Jay Vent MP, on BBC1 The Politics Show
11
Continuation of interview with Peter Maxwell
12
Email correspondence between David Sugden, NCFE, and Mr Tom Price-Williams, head of fisheries, Environment Agency
Email
13
Extract from the diary of Dr Jones: his return to Glen Tulloch
14
Interview with Dr Alfred Jones: his meeting with Mr Peter Maxwell and Sheikh Muhammad
15
Peter Maxwell is interviewed for the ‘Time Off column of the Sunday Telegraph , 4 September
16
Interview with Ms Harriet Chetwode-Talbot
17
Extract from Hansard
18
The termination of the employment contract of Dr Jones
19
Correspondence between Captain Robert Matthews and Ms Harriet Chetwode-Talbot
20
Intercepts of al-Qaeda email traffic (provided by the Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence Agency)
21
Extract from Hansard
22
Extracts from the diary of Dr Jones: he visits the Yemen
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Extract from Hansard
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Correspondence between Ms Chetwode-Talbot and herself
25
Extract from Peter Maxwell ’s unpublished autobiography, A Helmsman at the Ship of State
26
Script of TV pilot for Prizes for the People
27
Extract from Peter Maxwell ’s unpublished autobiography
28
Evidence of a marital crisis between Dr and Mrs Jones
29
Interview with Dr Alfred Jones: dinner at the Ritz
30
Dr Jones fails to find a date in his diary to meet Mrs Jones
31
Extract from Peter Maxwell ’s unpublished autobiography
32
Dr Jones ’s testimony of events which occurred at the launch of the Yemen salmon project
33
Conclusions of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee
Glossary of terms used in the extracts
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Paul Torday
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