Two stories from We Love this Book

SHOOTING SALMON Paul Torday the film of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen with its Oscar-winning screenwriter, Simon Beaufoy Paul Torday was 59, with a career as a successful businessman behind him, when his debut novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen became a surprise hit in 2007. A deceptively light, humorous story of the fanciful plan by a wealthy Yemeni sheikh to bring salmon fishing to his home country, assisted by buttoned-up British fisheries scientist Dr Alfred Jones and attractive young consultant Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, Torday’s novel was in fact a wryly satirical snapshot of the tail-end of Tony Blair’s PR-spun Britain. MORE >

DAZZLED BY THE HIGH Eleanor Henderson's novel Ten Thousand Saints delves into the rebellious world of straight edge In 1987, my husband Aaron, then 15, was playing videogames on St. Mark’s Place in New York City when a stranger invited him to a show at CBGB. He’d never seen live straight edge hardcore. Curious, he followed his new friend downtown. The only problem was that he was drunk. And the rest of the crowd at the club – founded on the punk of the 1970s but known in the 1980s for its Sunday “all ages” matinees – was not. This was the world of youth crew straight edge, where teenagers sang the merits of clean living. MORE >