Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Paul Torday

Born: August 1, 1946
Died: December 18, 2013 (aged 67)
Bio: Paul Torday was a British writer and the author of the comic novel, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. The book was the winner of the 2007 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing and was serialised on BBC Radio 4. It won the Waverton Good Read Award in 2008.
Known for:
- Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2007)
- The Girl on the Landing (2009)
- Light Shining in the Forest (2013)
- The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce (2008)
- The Hopeless Life Of Charlie Summers (2010)