William Boyd

William Boyd is the author of ten novels, including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet; and Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year.

Books Authored

Image of Gabriel's Moon
Author(s):
William Boyd
Genre(s):
Mystery & Thriller, Espionage, Historical Fiction, Twentieth Century

Gabriel's Moon

December 12, 2024
Reviewed by: 
Ben Guterson

“Throughout Boyd’s novel, characters present with one face but turn out to be concealing significant, even entire, aspects of themselves.”

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Image of Love Is Blind: A novel
Author(s):
William Boyd
Genre(s):
Biographical, Cultural Heritage, Historical Fiction

Love Is Blind: A novel

November 11, 2018
Reviewed by: 
Judithe Little

“William Boyd is a master of the character biography, of evoking place and time, of expressing the human condition with its longings, its fleeting moments of bliss, its crushing inequities,

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Image of Sweet Caress
Author(s):
William Boyd
Genre(s):
Literary Fiction

Sweet Caress: A Novel

September 15, 2015
Reviewed by: 
Richard Rivera

One would think that with all the international settings, romantic affairs, wars, lovers, and change of circumstance that accost the main character of Sweet Caress it would be a dynamic, i

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Image of Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay
Author(s):
William Boyd
Genre(s):
Literary Fiction

Sweet Caress

September 14, 2015
Reviewed by: 
Suad Khatab Ali

“It’s not a bad little novel, by most reckonings, but from William Boyd it’s a disappointment.”

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Image of Waiting for Sunrise: A Novel
Author(s):
William Boyd
Genre(s):
Genre Fiction, Historical Fiction, International Locales, Literary Fiction, General, Historical, International Settings, Thriller, Historical, Mystery & Thriller, Historical, Literary, Genre Fiction, Historical Fiction, International Locales, Literary Fiction, General, Historical, International Settings, Thriller, Historical, Mystery & Thriller, Historical, Literary, Thriller, Mystery & Thriller, Literary Fiction, Literary, International Settings, International Locales, Historical Fiction, Historical, Historical, Historical, Genre Fiction, General

Waiting for Sunrise: A Novel

January 10, 2012
Reviewed by: 
A. J. Kirby

“. . . this is a story about the subtle shadings between truth and performance, between acting and the ‘true self’ which we present to the world.

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