William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of fifteen highly acclaimed, bestselling novels and five collections of stories. He is married and divides his time between London and...

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It follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician. Moving from Paris to St Petersburg to Edinburgh and back again, during an era of overwhelming change as the 19th century becomes the 20th. A tale of passion and brutal...

Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover.One man, many lives.Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving from County Cork to London, from Waterloo to...

William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of fifteen highly acclaimed, bestselling novels and five collections of stories. He is married and divides his time between London and...

"Zum Nachtisch Krieg" von William Boyd ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten, die sich um verschiedene Charaktere und ihre persönlichen Kämpfe in Zeiten des Krieges drehen. Die Geschichten sind interaktiv und fesselnd, mit einer Vielzahl...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic,...

The infamous literary hoax that fooled the art worldOn January 8 1960, artist Nat Tate set out to burn his entire life's work. Four days later he jumped off a Staten Island ferry, killing himself. His body was never found. When William...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'What could be more reassuring in troubling times than a new William Boyd novel?' Sunday Telegraph________________________________________________________A producer. A novelist. An actress.It is summer in 1968,...

1969. Ein altgedienter Geheimagent. Ein einsamer Auftrag. Eine Lizenz zum Töten. William Boyd, Meister der Täuschung und des doppelten Spiels, gilt seit seinem Roman Ruhelos als Großer der Spionageliteratur und führt nun erstmals 007...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'What could be more reassuring in troubling times than a new William Boyd novel?' Sunday Telegraph________________________________________________________A producer. A novelist. An actress.It is summer in 1968,...

William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana and grew up there and in Nigeria. His first novel, A Good Man in Africa (1981), won the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Somerset Maugham Prize. His other novels include An Ice Cream War...