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William Boyd
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A very special Granta magazine, celebrating its 100th edition.
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…
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From one of Britain’s best loved writers comes an exhilarating, tender novel–by turns hilarious and heartbreaking–that asks the vital questions: What makes life worth living? And what if it isn’t…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
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This detailed examination of the cerebrospinal fluid is a must-read for anyone interested in neuroscience or medicine more generally. Drawing on the latest research from around the world, the author…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
With A Field Ambulance At Ypres: Being Letters Written March 7, To August 15, 1915 (1916) is a book written by William Boyd. The book is a collection of letters…
Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Viking, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2018. –Title page verso.
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A producer. A novelist. An actress.It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. While the world is reeling our trio is…
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…
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.
This edition originally published in 1962. The problems of life and government which are still the central theme of the Republic are still with us but the views presented in…
All Henderson Dores dreams of is fitting in. But America, land of the loony millionaire and the subway poet, down-home Bible-basher and sharp-suited hood, of paralyzing personal frankness and surreally…
A thrilling, plot-twisting novel from the author of the Richard & Judy bestseller Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year
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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…
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…
P.S. insights, interviews, & more– –Cover.
A diverse collection of non-fiction by the author of Richard and Judy bestseller, Restless .
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Insurance adjuster Lorimer Black, a.k.a. Milomre Blocj–a descendant of Gypsies and an insomniac eager for sleep and security–finds his life spiraling out of control after he discovers a client hanging…
‘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 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…
*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…
A collection of essays on the subject of the family, by Mikal Gilmore, William Wharton, Mona Simpson, Geoffrey Biddle, Seamus Deane, Giorgio Pressburger, Marketa Luskacova, Geoffrey Wolff, Harold Pinter and…
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…
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 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…
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…
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…
