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   Who is William Boyd?

   • William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana, on 7 March 1952. He was educated at Gordonstoun School, Glasgow University and Jesus College, Oxford. Published while he was a lecturer in English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, his first novel A Good Man in Africa (1981) won the Whitbread First Novel Award and a Somerset Maugham Award.

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   How many books has William Boyd written?

   • William Boyd’s entertaining story of a life apparently lived to the full turns into a journey deep into a very human heart. William Boyd has written 17 novels and multiple collections of stories. Here's our guide detailing where to start with the twice Booker Prize-nominated author

   Where to start with William Boyd: a guide to his best fiction

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   Did William Boyd write a James Bond novel?

   • In 2012 Boyd was commissioned by the Ian Fleming estate to write an official James Bond novel, which was published in 2013 on the sixtieth anniversary of the publication of Fleming’s Casino Royale. Fleming himself made a cameo appearance in Any Human Heart. William Boyd lives in London.

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   William Andrew Murray Boyd CBE FRSL (born 7 March 1952) is a Scottish [2] [3] novelist, short story writer and screenwriter . Biography. Boyd was born in Accra, Gold Coast (present-day Ghana ), [4] to Scottish parents, both from Fife, and has two younger sisters.

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   Learn about William Boyd, the author of seventeen novels, including The Romantic, a picaresque adventure through the 19th century. Find out his latest news, reviews, interviews, and projects in film and TV.

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   Dec 12, 2023 · Learn about the twice Booker Prize-nominated author of Any Human Heart and other novels spanning fictional biographies, foreign adventures and James Bond thrillers. Find out where to start reading his 17 books, from his first The New Confessions to his latest The Romantic.

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   Learn about the life and works of William Boyd, a Scottish novelist, screenwriter and James Bond author. Explore his biography, critical perspective, bibliography and awards.

   • Place Of Birth: Accra, Ghana

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   Learn about the life and works of William Boyd, a British author who has won multiple awards and translated his novels into over thirty languages. He is also known for his adaptations of Evelyn Waugh, Chaplin, and his own novel Any Human Heart.

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   William Boyd has 60 books on Goodreads with 267277 ratings. William Boyd’s most popular book is Any Human Heart.

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    Any Human Heart by William Boyd Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906, and died of a heart attack on October 5, 1991, aged 85. William Boyd's novel Any Human Heart is his disjointed autobiography, a massive tome chronicling "my personal rollercoaster"--or rather, "not so much a rollercoaster", but a yo-yo, "a jerking spinning toy ...