William Boyd

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1981
  • Latest Book:
    October 2022
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Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • On the Yankee Station

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    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 world populated by weary souls who turn to ...

  • Introduction to the Study of Disease

  • Good Man in Africa

    In the small African republic of Kinjanja, British diplomat Morgan Leafy bumbles heavily through his job. His love of women, his fondness for drink, and his loathing for the country prove formidable obstacles on his road to any kind of success. But w...

  • Stars and Bars

    Sharply observed and brilliantly plotted, Stars and Bars is an uproarious portrait of culture clash deep in the heart of the American South, by one of contemporary literature’s most imaginative novelists.A recent transfer to Manhattan has inspired ...

  • The New Confessions

    In this extraordinary novel, William Boyd presents the autobiography of John James Todd, whose uncanny and exhilarating life as one of the most unappreciated geniuses of the twentieth century is equal parts Laurence Stern, Charles Dickens, Robertson ...

  • Brazzaville Beach

    A primatologist flees her broken marriage for a job in war-torn Africa in the renowned author’s “brilliant . . . stunningly magical” novel (Washington Post Book World).William Boyd’s classic Brazzaville Beach has been...

  • An Ice-Cream War

    "Rich in character and incident, An Ice-Cream War fulfills the ambition of the historical novel at its best." --The New York Times Book ReviewBooker Prize Finalist"Boyd has more than fulfilled the bright promise of [his] first novel. . . . He is capa...

  • The Blue Afternoon

    "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 Maugham. In 1936 Los angeles, as her long-estranged fath...

  • The Destiny of Nathalie X: and Other Stories

    This new collection of eleven stories by the author of The Blue Afternoon takes readers back in time from a contemporary Hollywood film shoot to World War I in Vienna, introducing an unforgettable cast of characters. Artful, witty, moving, The Destin...



  • Armadillo

    From the award-winning author of A Good Man Africa and An Ice-Cream War comes Armadillo, a brilliant satirical noir set in contemporary London.

    To his colleagues, Lorimer Black, the handsome, mild-mannered insurance adjuster rising through the...

  • Hockey Towns

    At a time when Canada's influence in hockey seems to be slipping, Hockey Towns assures us that the spirit of the game will endure in our communities.

    William Boyd takes us on a journey across Canada -- from Glace Bay, Nova Scotia to Powell Riv...

  • Any Human Heart

    William Boyd’s masterful new novel tells, in a series of intimate journals, the story of Logan Mountstuart -- writer, lover, art dealer, spy -- as he makes his often precarious way through the twentieth century....

  • Fascination

    One of the most beguiling storytellers on either side of the Atlantic delivers a luminous new collection whose 14 stories are a series of variations on the theme of love"and its shady cousin lust. A film director’s journal becomes an unintended c...

  • Restless

    A masterful, riveting espionage novel about a mother whose secret life as a WWII spy is at last revealed to her daughter. Full of tension and drama, emotion and history, this is storytelling at its finest by one of the great literary writers of his g...

  • The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth

    A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only passionate kisses as a substitute. A man recounts his personal history through the things he has stolen from others throughout his life. A couple chart the journey of thei...

  • Ordinary Thunderstorms

    A thrilling, plot-twisting novel from the author of Restless, a national bestseller and winner of the Costa Novel of the Year Award. It is May in Chelsea, London. The glittering river is unusually high on an otherwise ordinary afternoon. Adam Kind...

  • Nat Tate: An American Artist: 1928-1960

    When William Boyd published his biography of New York modern artist Nat Tate, a huge reception of critics and artists arrived for the launch party, hosted by David Bowie, to toast the late artist's life. Little did they know that the painter Nat Tate...

  • The Pumpkin Fairy

  • Waiting for Sunrise

    Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor in town seeking psychotherapy for a troubling ailment of a sexual nature, becomes caught up in a feverish affair with a beautiful, enigmatic woman. When she goes to the police to press charges of rap...



  • Solo

    James Bond

    It's 1969, and, having just celebrated his forty-fifth birthday, James Bond -- British special agent 007 -- is summoned to headquarters to receive an unusual assignment. Zanzarim, a troubled West African nation, is being ravaged by a bitter civil war...

  • Sweet Caress

    Amory's first memory is of her father standing on his head. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she chiefly remembers. It is her photographer uncle, Greville, wh...

  • The Argument

  • Hullo Molly Holly

    Peter Doolan’s got a big problem: the girl he loves isn’t quite real. Peter lives in the city of Luxe, where the spirit world underlies the ordinary one. The ways and paths between the two are known as slides, and Peter knows them all. He’s a p...

  • Love Is Blind

    The Whitbread Award-winning author of A Good Man in Africa and the Costa Award-winning Restless now gives us a sweeping new novel that unfolds across fin-de-siècle Europe as it tells a story of ineffable passions--familial, artistic, romantic--and t...

  • Nat Tate

  • Trio

    It’s summer 1968, and the world is reeling from war and assassinations, protests and riots. In a sunny British seaside town, a producer, a novelist, and an actress are enduring their own more private crises on the set of a disaster-plagued movie. A...

  • The Dream Lover

  • The Romantic

    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, this is Boyd at the ...

Award-Winning Books by William Boyd

Restless
2006 Costa Book Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William Boyd has published 28 books.

William Boyd does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Romantic, was published in October 2022.

The first book by William Boyd, On the Yankee Station, was published in January 1981.

No. William Boyd does not write books in series.
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