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Author:
William Boyd
Links:
-WIKIPEDIA: William Boyd
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-ESSAY: Secrets of Nabokov’s Teapot
(William Boyd, September 2023, Literary Review)
-ESSAY: John Buchan’s clubland heroes
: In The Thirty-Nine Steps and his other yarns – with their decent chaps in scrapes and men on the run – John Buchan invented the modern spy novel. (WILLIAM BOYD, New Statesman)
-ESSAY: Evelyn Waugh’s sincerest form of flattery
: He had a major but unsung inspiration: the now-neglected novelist William Gerhardie (William Boyd, July 24, 2022, The Spectator)
-INTERVIEW: William Boyd on the Allure of the Literary Spy Novel
: "I feel that the world of espionage is actually the human condition writ large. We’ve all betrayed people. We've all lied to people." (Kevin Canfield, 12/09/24, Crime Reads)
-INTERVIEW: William Boyd: ‘Fantasy is a genre that I cannot abide any more’
: The novelist on why he can’t read JRR Tolkein, being hooked on Muriel Spark and obsessed with James Joyce (The Guardian, 11/01/24)
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-REVIEW: of Any Human Heart by William Boyd
(Brooke Allen, The Atlantic Monthly)
Brazzaville Beach
(1990) -
William Boyd
(3/07/1952 -)
(Grade:A)
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