PRIZES
A Good Man in Africa (1981, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Prize)
An Ice Cream War (1982, shortlisted for the 1982 Booker Prize and winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize)
Brazzaville Beach won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1990) and the McVitie Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year (1990)
The Blue Afternoon (1993, winner of the 1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, 1995)
Any Human Heart (2002, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet)
Restless (September 2006, Costa Book Award, Novel of the Year 2006) .
William Boyd was awarded a CBE in 2005.