Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 2007 book
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Paul Torday, 2007
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Lasse Hallström, 2011

Fisheries expert Alfred Jones receives an email from financial adviser Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, seeking advice on a project to bring salmon fishing to the Yemen—a project being bankrolled by a wealthy Yemeni sheikh and supported by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Alfred dismisses the project as ‘fundamentally unfeasible’ because Yemen cannot provide the necessary environment for salmon.


Firebrand. Poster of the 2023 movie and cover of the 2012 book, Queen's Gambit
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Queen's Gambit
Elizabeth Fremantle, 2012
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Karim Aïnouz, 2023

A psychological horror story set in the bloody Tudor court of the infamous King Henry VIII of England. Told from the point of view of Queen Catherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of Henry and the only one to avoid banishment or death.