Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. A Novel.

Uncorrected Proof. 8vo. Pp. [x], 321. Printed wraps. Contents. Glossary of terms. A signed, slip-cased edition, limited to 250 copies was published subsequently.

Winner of the 2007 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Chosen as BBC Radio 4's 'Book at Bedtime'. Author's debut novel. A satire on the Blair years written in a pastiche of memos, letters, interview excerpts, journal entries and emails, involving fly-fishing, spin doctoring and late-blooming love by a keen angler himself. Basis for the 2011 motion picture directed by Lasse Hallström, starring Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas and Amr Waked. "A wickedly comic first novel about the power of money and the miracle of faith." –Saga