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Boyd was born in Accra, Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), [4] to Scottish parents, both from Fife, and has two younger sisters.His father Alexander, a doctor specialising in tropical medicine, and Boyd's mother, who was a teacher, moved to the Gold Coast in 1950 to run the health clinic at the University College of the Gold Coast, Legon (now the University of Ghana).
Any Human Heart: The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart is a 2002 novel by William Boyd, a British writer.It is written as a lifelong series of journals kept by the fictional character Mountstuart, a writer whose life (1906–1991) spanned the defining episodes of the 20th century, crossed several continents and included a convoluted sequence of relationships and literary endeavours.
In a prolific literary career spanning 18 novels, William Boyd has become known for his masterfully interwoven plots, his sweeping historical backdrops, and his consistent readability.. From the ...
Restless is an espionage novel written by William Boyd, published in 2006. It won the Costa Prize for fiction. [1] The novel depicts the tale of a young woman who discovers that her mother was recruited as a spy during World War II. The book continually switches between time periods and, in doing so, from first to third person.
William Boyd, author of Solo, in 2009. On 31 March 2012 Boyd announced at the Oxford Literary Festival that he was working on a novel set in Africa. [10] Boyd had lived in Nigeria—"where his mother was a teacher and his father a doctor"—during the Nigerian Civil War, which "had a profound effect on him."
Pages in category "Novels by William Boyd (writer)" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Armadillo is William Boyd's seventh novel, published in 1998. It was the first of his novels to be based in Britain. [ 1 ] Boyd also wrote the screenplay for a BBC / A&E television adaptation in 2001.
The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth is a collection of short stories by the Scottish writer William Boyd.It was published in 2017 by Viking Press. [2] [3] Penguin Books released an unabridged audiobook version, also in 2017.