William Boyd (1)

This page covers the author of Restless.

For other authors named William Boyd, see the disambiguation page.

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William Boyd is a writer who was born in Ghana on March 7, 1952. He was educated at Gordonstoun school; and then the University of Nice, France, the University of Glasgow, and finally Jesus College, Oxford. Between 1980 and 1983 he was a lecturer in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and it was while he was there that his first novel, A Good Man in Africa (1981), was published. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005. 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. His novels include: A Good Man in Africa, for which he won the Whitbread Book award and Somerset Maugham Award in 1981; An Ice-Cream War, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was nominated for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1982; Brazzaville Beach, published in 1991, and Any Human Heart, which was long-listed for the Booker Prize in 2002. Restless, the tale of a young woman who discovers that her mother had been recruited as a spy during World War II, was published in 2006 and won the Novel Award in the 2006 Costa Book Awards. Boyd published Waiting for Sunrise: A Novel in early 2012. In 2015 his title, Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Clay, Amory made the new Zealand Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Restless… (more)

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Works by William Boyd

Restless 2,729 copies, 110 reviews

Any Human Heart 2,358 copies, 93 reviews

Brazzaville Beach 1,270 copies, 35 reviews

Ordinary Thunderstorms 1,259 copies, 77 reviews

A Good Man in Africa 1,095 copies, 21 reviews

Waiting for Sunrise 1,010 copies, 53 reviews

An Ice-Cream War 923 copies, 18 reviews

Armadillo 915 copies, 10 reviews

The Blue Afternoon 892 copies, 19 reviews

The New Confessions 793 copies, 17 reviews

Stars and Bars 589 copies, 8 reviews

Sweet Caress 581 copies, 36 reviews

Solo 538 copies, 32 reviews

Love Is Blind 316 copies, 15 reviews

On the Yankee Station 284 copies, 6 reviews

Fascination 266 copies, 7 reviews

Trio 255 copies, 17 reviews

The Destiny of Nathalie 'X' 218 copies, 1 review

Granta 100 177 copies, 1 review

The Romantic 147 copies, 6 reviews

Bamboo : Essays and Criticism 146 copies

Nat Tate: An American Artist: 1928-1960 135 copies, 32 reviews

The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth 96 copies, 6 reviews

Killing Lizards and Other Stories 96 copies

Protobiography 79 copies, 1 review

The Dream Lover: Short Stories 65 copies

The Vanishing Game 60 copies, 2 reviews

School Ties: Good and Bad at Games AND Dutch Girls (Author) 35 copies

La chasse au lezard / nouvelles 28 copies, 1 review

Le destin de Nathalie X 18 copies

Visions fugitives 16 copies

Transfigured Night 12 copies

The Trench [1999 film] (Director) 10 copies, 1 review

Longing 9 copies

Any Human Heart [2010 TV mini series] (Screenwriter) 9 copies

The Argument 4 copies

Scoop [1987 TV movie] (writer) 4 copies

Lanark 4 copies

L'amour fait mal : Et autres nouvelles 3 copies

Bullets Don't Cry 3 copies

A Good Man in Africa [1994 film] (Screenwriter) 2 copies

My Girl in Skin-Tight Jeans 2 copies

Τοπικές καταιγίδες 2 copies

Not, Yet, Jayette 1 copy

Hantise 1 copy

Scoop [play] 1 copy

The View from Yves Hill 1 copy

Graham Sutherland 1 copy

A Waste of Shame [2005 TV movie] (writer) 1 copy

Každé lidské srdce : důvěrné deníky Logana… 1 copy

The Destiny of Nathalie X 1 copy

Lunch [audio play] 1 copy

Harilikud aikesetormid 1 copy

the loss adjuster 1 copy

'All quiet on the Popular Front' in TLS 5328, 13 May 2005 [review of… 1 copy

Bethany-Next-the-Sea [short story] 1 copy

Cork 1 copy

The Dream Lover (Author) 1 copy

1 School 1 copy

Varengeville [short story] 1 copy

2 Oxford 1 copy

3 First London 1 copy

4 Second World War 1 copy

6 New York 1 copy

7 African 1 copy

8 Second London 1 copy

Charlie 1 copy

9 French 1 copy

Boyd William 1 copy

5 Post War 1 copy

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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (Introduction, some editions) 8,297 copies, 230 reviews

A Handful of Dust (Introduction, some editions) 4,272 copies, 91 reviews

A Far Cry from Kensington (Introduction, some editions) 1,229 copies, 55 reviews

The Ballad of Peckham Rye (Introduction, some editions) 715 copies, 21 reviews

Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame (Contributor) 291 copies, 4 reviews

Granta 87: Jubilee! The 25th Anniversary Issue (Contributor) 199 copies

Granta 34: Death of a Harvard Man (Contributor) 158 copies, 1 review

Granta 28: Birthday: The Anniversary Issue (Contributor) 149 copies, 1 review

Granta 48: Africa (Contributor) 142 copies, 4 reviews

Granta 50: Fifty (Contributor) 117 copies, 1 review

Granta 7: Best of Young British Novelists (Contributor) 91 copies

A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary (Introduction) 77 copies

Chaplin [1992 film] (Screenwriter) 75 copies, 1 review

Granta 14: Autobiography (Contributor) 71 copies

Ox-Tales: Water (Contributor) 68 copies, 2 reviews

Great Poets of the 20th Century: Siegfried Sassoon (Foreword) 15 copies

Sword of Honour [2001 TV movie] (Screenwriter) 10 copies, 1 review

Short Stories: The Thoroughly Modern Collection (Contributor) 5 copies

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