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author spotlight
WILLIAM BOYD is the author of nine novels, including
A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet; and Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year, the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year and a Richard & Judy Book Club pick.
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Any Human Heart
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $14.95
William Boyd’s masterful new novel tells, in a series of intimate journals, the story of Logan Mountstuart—writer, lover, art dealer, spy—as he makes his often precarious way through the twentieth century. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $14.95
William Boyd’s masterful new novel tells, in a series of intimate journals, the story of Logan Mountstuart—writer, lover, art dealer, spy—as he makes his often precarious way through the twentieth century. Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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An Ice-Cream War
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $15.95
"Rich in character and incident, An Ice-Cream War fulfills the ambition of the historical novel at its best."
--The New York Times Book Review
Booker Prize Finalist
"Boyd has more than fulfilled the bright promise of [his] first novel. . . . He is capable not only of some very funny satire but... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $15.95
"Rich in character and incident, An Ice-Cream War fulfills the ambition of the historical novel at its best."
--The New York Times Book Review
Booker Prize Finalist
"Boyd has more than fulfilled the bright promise of [his] first novel. . . . He is capable not only of some very funny satire but... Read more >
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A Good Man in Africa
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $15.95
In the small African republic of Kinjanja, British diplomat Morgan Leafy bumbles heavily through his job. His love of women, his fondness for drink, and his loathing for the country prove formidable obstacles on his road to any kind of success. But when he becomes an operative in Operation Kingpin and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $15.95
In the small African republic of Kinjanja, British diplomat Morgan Leafy bumbles heavily through his job. His love of women, his fondness for drink, and his loathing for the country prove formidable obstacles on his road to any kind of success. But when he becomes an operative in Operation Kingpin and... Read more >
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A Handful of Dust
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $20.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Evelyn Waugh’s 1934 novel is a bitingly funny vision of aristocratic decadence in England between the wars. It tells the story of Tony Last, who, to the irritation of his wife, is inordinately obsessed with his Victorian Gothic country house and life. When Lady Brenda Last embarks on... Read more >
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $20.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Evelyn Waugh’s 1934 novel is a bitingly funny vision of aristocratic decadence in England between the wars. It tells the story of Tony Last, who, to the irritation of his wife, is inordinately obsessed with his Victorian Gothic country house and life. When Lady Brenda Last embarks on... Read more >
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The Blue Afternoon
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: January 14, 1997
Price: $14.95
"A perfect-pitch story of love and redemption" (The New York Times), Boyd's atmospheric new novel confirms his reputation as heir to the grand narrative traditions of Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham. In 1936 Los angeles, as her long-estranged father tells architect Kay Fischer the story behind her secret parentage, he plunges... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: January 14, 1997
Price: $14.95
"A perfect-pitch story of love and redemption" (The New York Times), Boyd's atmospheric new novel confirms his reputation as heir to the grand narrative traditions of Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham. In 1936 Los angeles, as her long-estranged father tells architect Kay Fischer the story behind her secret parentage, he plunges... Read more >
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Armadillo
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2000
Price: $14.95
From the award-winning author of A Good Man Africa and An Ice-Cream War comes Armadillo, a brilliant satirical noir set in contemporary London.
To his colleagues, Lorimer Black, the handsome, mild-mannered insurance adjuster rising through the ranks of his London firm, is known as the guy who has it all: the sleek... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2000
Price: $14.95
From the award-winning author of A Good Man Africa and An Ice-Cream War comes Armadillo, a brilliant satirical noir set in contemporary London.
To his colleagues, Lorimer Black, the handsome, mild-mannered insurance adjuster rising through the ranks of his London firm, is known as the guy who has it all: the sleek... Read more >
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The New Confessions
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $15.95
In this extraordinary novel, William Boyd presents the autobiography of John James Todd, whose uncanny and exhilarating life as one of the most unappreciated geniuses of the twentieth century is equal parts Laurence Stern, Charles Dickens, Robertson Davies, and Saul Bellow, and a hundred percent William Boyd.
From his birth in 1899... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $15.95
In this extraordinary novel, William Boyd presents the autobiography of John James Todd, whose uncanny and exhilarating life as one of the most unappreciated geniuses of the twentieth century is equal parts Laurence Stern, Charles Dickens, Robertson Davies, and Saul Bellow, and a hundred percent William Boyd.
From his birth in 1899... Read more >
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Stars and Bars
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2001
Price: $14.95
Sharply observed and brilliantly plotted, Stars and Bars is an uproarious portrait of culture clash deep in the heart of the American South, by one of contemporary literature’s most imaginative novelists.
A recent transfer to Manhattan has inspired art assessor Henderson Dores to shed his British reserve and aspire to the impulsive... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2001
Price: $14.95
Sharply observed and brilliantly plotted, Stars and Bars is an uproarious portrait of culture clash deep in the heart of the American South, by one of contemporary literature’s most imaginative novelists.
A recent transfer to Manhattan has inspired art assessor Henderson Dores to shed his British reserve and aspire to the impulsive... Read more >
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The Destiny of Nathalie X
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: December 8, 1997
Price: $15.00
This new collection of eleven stories by the author of The Blue Afternoon takes readers back in time from a contemporary Hollywood film shoot to World War I in Vienna, introducing an unforgettable cast of characters. Artful, witty, moving, The Destiny of Nathalie X is a confirmation of Boyd's standing as... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: December 8, 1997
Price: $15.00
This new collection of eleven stories by the author of The Blue Afternoon takes readers back in time from a contemporary Hollywood film shoot to World War I in Vienna, introducing an unforgettable cast of characters. Artful, witty, moving, The Destiny of Nathalie X is a confirmation of Boyd's standing as... Read more >
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Fascination
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $13.95
One of the most beguiling storytellers on either side of the Atlantic delivers a luminous new collection whose 14 stories are a series of variations on the theme of love–and its shady cousin lust. A film director’s journal becomes an unintended chronicle of his deepening and ruinous obsession with a leading... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $13.95
One of the most beguiling storytellers on either side of the Atlantic delivers a luminous new collection whose 14 stories are a series of variations on the theme of love–and its shady cousin lust. A film director’s journal becomes an unintended chronicle of his deepening and ruinous obsession with a leading... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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On the Yankee Station
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 27, 2001
Price: $15.00
Wiliam Boyd, winner of the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards, introduces unlikely heroes desperate to redeem their unsatisfying lives.
From California poolsides to the battlegrounds of Vietnam, here is a world populated by weary souls who turn to fantasy as their sole escape from life's inequities. Stranded in an African hotel during... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 27, 2001
Price: $15.00
Wiliam Boyd, winner of the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards, introduces unlikely heroes desperate to redeem their unsatisfying lives.
From California poolsides to the battlegrounds of Vietnam, here is a world populated by weary souls who turn to fantasy as their sole escape from life's inequities. Stranded in an African hotel during... Read more >
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Any Human Heart
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
William Boyd’s masterful new novel tells, in a series of intimate journals, the story of Logan Mountstuart—writer, lover, art dealer, spy—as he makes his often precarious way through the twentieth century.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
William Boyd’s masterful new novel tells, in a series of intimate journals, the story of Logan Mountstuart—writer, lover, art dealer, spy—as he makes his often precarious way through the twentieth century.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Fascination
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
A new collection of stories by the internationally acclaimed author of Any Human Heart (“the finest storyteller of his generation” –Chicago Tribune).
In “Notebook No. 9,” a film director’s journal becomes an unintentional record of his obsessive love for his leading lady and the slow destruction of their relationship.
In “Beulah Berlin... Read more >
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
A new collection of stories by the internationally acclaimed author of Any Human Heart (“the finest storyteller of his generation” –Chicago Tribune).
In “Notebook No. 9,” a film director’s journal becomes an unintentional record of his obsessive love for his leading lady and the slow destruction of their relationship.
In “Beulah Berlin... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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