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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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William Boyd’s Any Human Heart
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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.
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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.'
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William Boyd is A Good Man in Africa
2nd December 2008 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Scottish novelist and screenwriter William Boyd discusses his accomplished literary career with t5m.
Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award for his novel A Good Man in Africa, and shortlisted for...




