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,...

'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...

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Einer der schönsten Romane von Bestsellerautor William Boyd – jetzt im Taschenbuch! Los Angeles, 1936. »Bitte setzen Sie sich mit mir in Verbindung. Es gibt so viel zu erzählen«, steht in dem Brief, den die junge Architektin Kay eines...

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...

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

Brodie Moncur hat das absolute Gehör und gilt als Genie unter den Klavierstimmern. Als er in Paris dem grandiosen Pianisten John Kilbarron begegnet, nimmt sein Leben eine dramatische Wendung. Rasch zeigt sich, dass Brodies Künste...

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...

The Romantic von Boyd, William

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...

"Trio" von William Boyd ist ein Roman, der in den 1960er Jahren spielt und die Geschichten dreier unterschiedlicher Charaktere miteinander verwebt. Die Handlung ist vor dem Hintergrund der Dreharbeiten zu einem Film in Brighton...

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...