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 bestselling novels include Any...

'An elating read' Sunday TimesA producer. A novelist. An actress.It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. There are riots in Paris and the Vietnam War is out of control. While the...

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

James Bond returns by the pen of William Boyd. It's 1969 and a veteran secret agent has a single mission and a license to kill. 'Written with aplomb, Boyd's Bond novel is a terrific twisting thriller' "Sunday Times". von Boyd, William

An Ice-Cream War is William Boyd's sparkling debut novel on the grimly comic side of conflict, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.'What do you think would happen if I shot an elephant in the balls?''I think it would hurt...

The Romantic von Boyd, William

THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Amory Clay's first memory is of her father doing a handstand - but it is his absences that she chiefly remembers. Her Uncle Greville, a photographer, gives her both the affection she needs and a...

Licht, Kamera, Chaos ... Sommer 1968: Während die Welt in Aufruhr ist, wird im sonnigen Brighton ein Kinofilm gedreht. Und mittendrin zwei Frauen und ein Mann, die viel zu verbergen haben. Elfrida, der keine Zeile mehr einfällt und deren...

A beautiful new limited edition paperback of Restless, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list She continued her cross-examination and watched Romer's pleasure grow; he was enjoying this, she saw, and his enjoyment began...

The Romantic von Boyd, William

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...

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...