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Boyd was selected in 1983 as one of the 20 "Best of Young British Novelists" in a promotion run by Granta magazine and the Book Marketing Council. Boyd's novels include: A Good Man in Africa, a study of a disaster-prone British diplomat operating in West Africa, for which he won the Whitbread Book award and Somerset Maugham Award in 1981; An Ice-Cream War, set against the background of the ...
Any Human Heart: The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart is a 2002 novel by William Boyd, a British writer.It is written as a lifelong series of journals kept by the fictional character Mountstuart, a writer whose life (1906–1991) spanned the defining episodes of the 20th century, crossed several continents and included a convoluted sequence of relationships and literary endeavours.
Restless is an espionage novel written by William Boyd, published in 2006.It won the Costa Prize for fiction. [1]The novel depicts the tale of a young woman who discovers that her mother was recruited as a spy during World War II.
In a prolific literary career spanning 18 novels, William Boyd has become known for his masterfully interwoven plots, his sweeping historical backdrops, and his consistent readability.. From the ...
William Boyd, author of Solo, in 2009. On 31 March 2012 Boyd announced at the Oxford Literary Festival that he was working on a novel set in Africa. [10] Boyd had lived in Nigeria—"where his mother was a teacher and his father a doctor"—during the Nigerian Civil War, which "had a profound effect on him."
The Blue Afternoon is a novel by William Boyd. It won the Sunday Express Book of the Year in the year of its publication [ 1 ] and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. [ 2 ]
The New Confessions is the fourth novel by the Scottish writer William Boyd published in 1987. The theme and narrative structure of the novel is modelled on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Les Confessions, the reading of which has a huge impact on the protagonist's life.
Short story collections by William Boyd (writer) (5 P) Pages in category "Works by William Boyd (writer)" This category contains only the following page.