
Deadline 30th November 2020, 5pm
The latest news from the Paul Torday Literary Estate, and news highlights from Paul Torday's career.
Deadline 30th November 2020, 5pm
Sarah Waters, Paul Torday Memorial Prize judge, says: ‘Just a few pages into As the Women Lay Dreaming, I knew I had found our winner.
The Society of Authors today announced the shortlist for the 2020 Paul Torday Memorial Prize.
“I loved this engrossing story of friendship and family” – Anita Sethi, Paul Torday Prize Judge 2019
“Writing is a job with no mandatory starting date”
Mark Lawson, Kate Mosse and Anita Sethi have been confirmed as the judging panel for the first year of the Paul Torday Memorial Prize for debut novelists over 60, announced by the Society of Authors today.
Stephen Fry announces the new Paul Torday Memorial Prize, at the The Society of Authors Authors Awards Party, for the best debut novelist over 60.
The long awaited paperback of the critically acclaimed Death of an Owl, Paul Torday’s final novel, completed by his son Piers, is out today!
“Would Paul have approved of Piers’s ending? It would be nice to think so as The Death Of An Owl makes the journey from well-crafted and urbane political novel to spooky melodrama with elegance. A pleasure to read.”
Piers Torday sheds some light on the real life political scandals which inspired and informed his final book, The Death of an Owl, in the Daily Express.