William Boyd is the author of eleven novels, including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Literary Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker 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 selection.
Restless Trailer, BBC One, This Christmas
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William Boyd confirmed as The London Book Fair's Authors of the Day 2013
On Monday 15th April, 2013, the opening day of the Book Fair, William Boyd, will be Author of the Day. He will be talking about his work on Monday 15 April, 11.30am at The English PEN Literary Café, Earls Court Two.
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Longing at Hampstead Theatre
The first play by William Boyd, Longing adapts two of Anton Chekhov's short stories, A Visit to Friends and My Life, to weave a comic tale, at once exotic and familiar.
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