William Boyd on leading a double life: An exclusive profile

6th May 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

Scottish screenwriter and novelist William Boyd talks to t5m about his childhood in Africa, his university thesis and his novel writing process

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William Boyd on the power of the novel

4th December 2008 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

'If you want to know what makes people tick, what's going on in people's head, don't read an autobiography, read a novel.'

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Restless: William Boyd v James Bond

2nd December 2008 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

'We're not the same person, we're a progression of selves.'

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Brazzaville Beach and The Blue Afternoon

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William Boyd discusses his biggest literary leap ever; writing from the point of view of a woman. His biggest risk was never asking a single woman for their thoughts or...

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William Boyd’s Any Human Heart

2nd December 2008 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

For William Boyd's book Any Human Heart: The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart, he wanted to portray a human's life through each decade of the 20th century.

Rather than a memoir...

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A Good Man in Africa

2nd December 2008 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

William Boyd's first novel was published in 1981, and became one his most famous works. A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Prize,...

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School Ties to life in Nice

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'I reinvented myself.'

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London Magazine and life at Oxford University

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'To be a writer meant writing all sorts of things.'

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William Boyd cites F. Scott Fitzgerald as favourite author

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'Your first engagement with literature is empathetic.'

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