A Buchan-like set-up that pitches Gaunt into thriller territory...It's a brave stylistic gamble. (Eithne Farry
DAILY MAIL)
Torday has an extraordinary gift for making apparent "normality" look sinister and strange. (
THE TIMES)
The certainties of the imperial world in which Buchan's heroes operated have long gone, but Torday shows that today's more ambivalent realities can also be pressed into service to produce intelligent and readable adventure stories. (Nick Rennison
SUNDAY TIMES)
A dark thriller scenario, where unlikely events follow hot on the heels of each other to create a hectic narrative... (Tina Jackson
METRO)
Torday's prose whips along in this involving, enjoyable novel (Charlotte Sinclair
VOGUE)
A thrilling read (
PRIMA)
MORE THAN YOU CAN SAY is gripping. Torday's simple prose belies an elegantly woven story, full of concepts that you can't help but dwell upon (
NEWS OF THE WORLD)
On this showing, Torday has become an accomplished storyteller, able to develop a quirky plotline with aplomb (Max Davison
MAIL ON SUNDAY)
Torday keeps the story moving and tightly knit; he writes in detailed, engaging prose (Tom Adair
THE SCOTSMAN)
(an) entertaining book (Honor Clerk
THE SPECTATOR)
In MORE THAN YOU CAN SAY, Torday darkens things...dealing with subject matters such as terrorism, war and post-traumatic stress disorder. (Doug Johnstone
THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)
There are good reasons why Torday has found success, as this novel shows. There's real substance to the characterisation...a keenness to incorporate the dark and the serious...and to engage with contemporary politics and issues. Above all, there's his desire to entertain and to keep his readers turning those pages. (Harry Ritchie
THE GUARDIAN)
Written with confidence and dry humour, it's engaging and funny (Doug Johnstone
BIG ISSUE)
Paul Torday adroitly builds tension in Gaunt's current caper and the unravelling of his life in the past. (Justin Warshaw
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT)
In part an intelligent homage to John Buchan, the book is propelled by a thrillerish plot while at the same time making room for an exploration of its unhappy progtaganist's life. (Tom Fleming
THE TABLET)
Another thought-provoking and hugely entertaining novel. (
GOOD BOOK GUIDE)
