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William Boyd
An issue of Granta devoted to all things Soviet, including fiction, non-fiction, photographs, interviews and an exclusive interview with Mikhail Gorbachev by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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William Boyd, uno de los autores europeos mas prestigiosos de las ultimas decadas y que probablemente ha escrito mas clasicos que ninguno de sus coetaneos (Daily Telegraph), vuelve con su…
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
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A very special Granta magazine, celebrating its 100th edition.
Follows the fortunes of several wildly different characters - including an expat farmer and a young English aristocrat - as they are swept up in the fighting in German East…
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…
A collection of twenty-four tales told in bold, distinct voices from Brazil to Africa and from Nice to Hollywood.
‘I live on Brazzaville Beach… I am here because two sets of strange and extraordinary events happened to me… One in England, first, and then one in Africa.’ On Brazzaville…
The infamous literary hoax that fooled the art world, with a new introduction by William Boyd
On January 8 1960, artist Nat Tate set out to burn his entire life’s…
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One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a split-second decision, the young climatologist Adam Kindred loses everything - home, job, reputation, passport, credit cards…
Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor in town seeking psychotherapy for a troubling ailment, becomes caught up in a feverish affair with a beautiful, enigmatic woman. When she…
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…
From the award-winning, internationally best-selling author, a beguiling romp of a novel, at once intimate and panoramic, about the adventures and misadventures of a nineteenth-century everyman
"Picaresque, big-hearted and moving…
Boyd’s excruciatingly funny first novel presents an unforgettable anti-hero and a vision of Africa seldom seen. British diplomat Morgan Leafy bumbles heavily through his job in Kinjanja. When he finds…
The author of Armadillo, The Blue Afternoon and Brazzaville Beach now pens his most entertaining, sly and compelling novel to date, a novel that evokes the tumult, events and iconic…
A diverse collection of non-fiction by the author of Richard and Judy bestseller, Restless .
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The dazzling new book from one of Britain’s best-selling novelists
A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only stolen kisses as a substitute. A…
It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war…
P.S. insights, interviews, & more– –Cover.
*The Sunday Times Bestseller* It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly…
Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart’s - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of…
Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression - does not understand why his world is being torn apart, though he does know that for the most…
Escapee from suburbia, overweight, oversexed… Morgan Leafy isn’t overburdened with worldly success. Actually, he is refreshingly free from it. But then, as a representative of Her Britannic Majesty in tropical…
John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth century. This book deals with his life and work.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book…
Survivor Criminology explores how one's status as a survivor has informed their journey and commitment to research, teaching, and activism. It provides a both a greater understanding to issues of…
William Boyd (Author and playwright, UK)
All things pass - is this your philosophy? Is there no room for love in your philosophy of life? Here, William Boyd adapts two Chekhov short stories, ‘A Visit to…
William Boyd (Stirling University UK)
In this absorbing historical thriller … Sally Gilmartin, born Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian emigree recruited into the British Secret Service in 1939, reveals her clandestine past in an autobiography that…
The story is told through the eyes of an English woman in South Africa.
A thrilling, plot-twisting new novel set in Europe during the first world war, from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms
That’s why we shout and scream at each other. Clears the air. A kind of truth begins to emerge. We see clearer.
Pip and Meredith have had a bust-up. It…
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William Philip Boyd
History of the Boyd family, and descendants with historical chapter of the Ancient family of Boyds, in Scotland, and a complete record of their descendants in Kent, New Windsor and…
History of the Boyd family and descendants with historical sketches of the ancient family of Boyds in Scotland from the year 1200, and those of Ireland from the year 1680…
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William Boyd Dawkins
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…