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"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 )
"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 )
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I just can't get enough of these books.
I like the way that Paul Torday writes in a non sentimental style.
If you want great characters and gripping storylines then buy his books.
If you want unrealistic happy endings look elsewhere.
I cant believe this is the same author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. When I read Girl on the Landing I was hoping for a similar read. It was nothing like it, but was equally brilliant. To think that both books came from the same mind!
Subsequent books are more of the Girl on the Landing style with largely tragic central characters, that have a quality that makes you want to connect with them. It can be painful to follow their fate, but you you wouldn't want the books to be resolved in any other way.
I give all of his other books five stars. This book gets four stars simply because relative to the other books it's merely brilliant and you need a standard to measure against!
I like the way that Paul Torday writes in a non sentimental style.
If you want great characters and gripping storylines then buy his books.
If you want unrealistic happy endings look elsewhere.
I cant believe this is the same author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. When I read Girl on the Landing I was hoping for a similar read. It was nothing like it, but was equally brilliant. To think that both books came from the same mind!
Subsequent books are more of the Girl on the Landing style with largely tragic central characters, that have a quality that makes you want to connect with them. It can be painful to follow their fate, but you you wouldn't want the books to be resolved in any other way.
I give all of his other books five stars. This book gets four stars simply because relative to the other books it's merely brilliant and you need a standard to measure against!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I was drawn into this book by its unlikely premise - ex soldier Richard Gaunt takes a bet that can walk from his club in London to the Randolph Hotel in Oxford by the following afternoon. In the course of the journey, he stumbles a set of exotic foreign villains and is soon fleeing for his life.
So the story begins with distinct overtones of John Buchan and the book acknowledges this with a quote at the beginning from Three Hostages (Wordsworth Classics). But ex Captain Gaunt isn't another Richard Hannay, he's more like Buchan's dashing and, one suspects, tortured sandy Arbuthnot (modelled loosely on TE Lawrence). And this isn't The Thirty-Nine Steps (Penguin Classics) - either the book or the film. Gaunt has served in both Iraq and Afghanistan and has been damaged. As well as following his story in the present, the book flashes back to both, and to his failed attempts to build a normal life after leaving the Army. That failure leads to the kind of man Gaunt is, and to his taking the bet at the opening of the book.
In a sense, of course, the rootless, post-military life described here does fit Buchan's characters with the extract from "The Three Hostages" hinting at men who have been damaged by war experience just as Daunt is. But the style of the 20s and 30s was perhaps to make less of this, and "More than you can tell" is considerably darker. Gaint finds himself wishing for a "good" war, one that the people back at home continue to believe in.
Despite a fairly actiony ending in which Daunt - sort of - redeems himself, one isn't left with any great positive expectation for his life, still less for the outcome of the wars in which he took part. A criticsm of the book might be that it just stops, without any resolution to Gaunt's story. I think though that is appropriate, and that a tidy answer would have let this story down.
An excellent book, with a strong plot which gives, I think, a deep insight into some difficult issues while refusing in the end to judge anyone (except, perhaps, the unpleasant Kevin).
So the story begins with distinct overtones of John Buchan and the book acknowledges this with a quote at the beginning from Three Hostages (Wordsworth Classics). But ex Captain Gaunt isn't another Richard Hannay, he's more like Buchan's dashing and, one suspects, tortured sandy Arbuthnot (modelled loosely on TE Lawrence). And this isn't The Thirty-Nine Steps (Penguin Classics) - either the book or the film. Gaunt has served in both Iraq and Afghanistan and has been damaged. As well as following his story in the present, the book flashes back to both, and to his failed attempts to build a normal life after leaving the Army. That failure leads to the kind of man Gaunt is, and to his taking the bet at the opening of the book.
In a sense, of course, the rootless, post-military life described here does fit Buchan's characters with the extract from "The Three Hostages" hinting at men who have been damaged by war experience just as Daunt is. But the style of the 20s and 30s was perhaps to make less of this, and "More than you can tell" is considerably darker. Gaint finds himself wishing for a "good" war, one that the people back at home continue to believe in.
Despite a fairly actiony ending in which Daunt - sort of - redeems himself, one isn't left with any great positive expectation for his life, still less for the outcome of the wars in which he took part. A criticsm of the book might be that it just stops, without any resolution to Gaunt's story. I think though that is appropriate, and that a tidy answer would have let this story down.
An excellent book, with a strong plot which gives, I think, a deep insight into some difficult issues while refusing in the end to judge anyone (except, perhaps, the unpleasant Kevin).
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The first part of this story is totally ridiculous and my thoughts were that none of this could possibly ever happen. However, as the stroy unfolds, it becomes more and more plausible, until, eventually, I began to think that these events could really, actually happen. That is what I would call very clever story telling.
Paul Torday is an incredibly imaginative author. I liked this book very much indeed and would recommend it to any of my friends.
All that stopped me from awarding five stars was that it tended to ramble in places. In an action packed thriller, that can be most frustrating! Don't let that put you off though. It is well worth reading.
Paul Torday is an incredibly imaginative author. I liked this book very much indeed and would recommend it to any of my friends.
All that stopped me from awarding five stars was that it tended to ramble in places. In an action packed thriller, that can be most frustrating! Don't let that put you off though. It is well worth reading.
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Talented Author
This is the second Paul Torday book I have read. I have also read Girl on the Landing.
I think that Paul Torday is a very talented author. Read more
I think that Paul Torday is a very talented author. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Charley
The less said the better
I was quite disappointed with this one. I've enjoyed all of Paul Torday's previous novels, but this one is written in the style of an action adventure with a very unconvincing... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Swindon Ian
Once again, easy reading from Paul Torday
'More than you can say' offers the usual Paul Torday style of easy-reading.
The story concerns Richard Gaunt, an ex-army Captain returned from tours of Iraq and Afghanistan,... Read more
The story concerns Richard Gaunt, an ex-army Captain returned from tours of Iraq and Afghanistan,... Read more
Published 4 months ago by John M
Very good but could have been brilliant
The first part of of this book was excellent. The setting up of the character, the mysterious happenings, really make you want to turn the page. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mrs. S. Partridge
Ambivalent and taught
Very well narrated story. An interesting topic with the usual twists and left somewhat hanging but with a feeling you knew what the outcome would be. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Simone
Excellent as usual
I have read all of his books to date, I think. And they are all really good reads with good stories and a good style.
Published 9 months ago by helonwheels
A thriller that educates
Reading this book was not just a 'thrilling' read, but taught me about how life must be 'dislocated' from reality for many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Black bamboo
Not bad but irritating
I completely agree with what Sanfelice has said.
I give this book 3 stars because I thought the story itself was OK. Not great, but OK. Read more
I give this book 3 stars because I thought the story itself was OK. Not great, but OK. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Bookworm
Disappointing
This is the first Paul Torday I've read, and I found it very disappointing. He makes little of a potentially exciting plot, and the main character remains unsympathetic throughout. Read more
Published 13 months ago by sanfelice
Better thriller from very promising author
This features yet another of the 'damaged' characters that are starting to frequent Paul Torday's books. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Archy
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