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Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'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 Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. Sifting the details for e ...Show more
Fascination by William Boyd
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This title presents sixteen masterpieces of short fiction from one of today's most original storytellers. Wide-ranging in style and subject matter, the collection moves from 19th century Russia to Second World War Los Angeles to modern-day Eastbourne. First published in Penguin in 2005 to great acclaim, ...Show more
Fascination by William Boyd
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is William Boyd's third volume of short stories following his acclaimed collections On the Yankee Station (1981) and The Destiny of Nathalie X (1995). Described as "the finest storyteller of his generation", Boyd shows his mastery of the form as these stories range widely through time and space. In ...Show more
Fascination by William Boyd
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is William Boyd's third volume of short stories following his acclaimed collections On the Yankee Station (1981) and The Destiny of Nathalie X (1995). Described as "the finest storyteller of his generation", Boyd shows his mastery of the form as these stories range widely through time and space. ...Show more
Granta 100 : Winter 2007 (The 100th Edition!) by William Boyd (ed)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
In 1979, a young American graduate revived an old Cambridge university magazine and created a home for good writing of all kinds
Love Is Blind - The Rapture of Brodie Moncur by William Boyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent' Sunday Times 'A finely judged performance: a deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination' Guardian Book of the Week This is William Boyd's sweeping, ...Show more
Love is Blind by William Boyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
You don't see me as I really am. All the many nuances of Lika Blum. The light and the dark. You just see the light'When Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father and begin a wildly different new chapter ...Show more
Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928-1960 by William Boyd
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The infamous literary hoax that fooled the art world On January 8 1960, artist Nat Tate set out to burn his entire life's work. Four days later he jumped off a Staten Island ferry, killing himself. His body was never found. When William Boyd published his biography of Abstract Expressionist Nat Tate, ...Show more
Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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, money - never to get them back. With the police and a hit man in merciless pursuit, Adam has no choice but to g ...Show more
Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
What is the devastating effect on your life when, through no fault of your own, you lose everything - home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, money, credit cards, mobile phone - and you can never get them back? This is what happens to a young man called Adam Kindred, one May evening in Chelsea ...Show more
Protobiography by William Boyd
$3.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Pocket Penguin 70 Years | Reading Level: very good
William Boyd has been writing popular, prize-winning fiction since Penguin published A Good Man in Africa in 1981. His fiction is often a revealing excavation of an individual life, and in Protobiography, part of which has previously only been privately published, Boyd returns to his own biography for i ...Show more
Restless by William Boyd
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A tour de force from William Boyd: a thrilling novel that captures the drama of the Second World War, with a remarkable female spy at the centre of the story. What happens to your life when everything you thought you knew about your mother turns out to be an elaborate lie? Ruth Gilmartin discovers the s ...Show more