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William Boyd on the power of the novel
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'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
2nd December 2008 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
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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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
2nd December 2008 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
'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.'
WILLIAM BOYD
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