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          The name's Boyd – William Boyd He is the swashbuckling, Martini-swilling spy whose license to thrill has yet to expire.

          William Boyd is the author of seventeen novels, including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Literary Award and the Somerset Maugham Award;....

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          William Boyd is a Scottish author and screenwriter.

          He grew up in Ghana and Nigeria, and moved to Scotland at the age of nine. His first novel, A Good Man in Africa (1981), was published while he was a lecturer in English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and he has since been an extraordinarily prolific and successful author.

          He was selected by Ian Fleming’s estate to write the next James Bond novel, Solo, published in 2013.

          Boyd is a writer of international acclaim whose 11 novels and short-story collections have been translated into over 30 languages with many.

        1. Boyd is a writer of international acclaim whose 11 novels and short-story collections have been translated into over 30 languages with many.
        2. William Boyd is the most intensely driven man you will find this side of a Goldman Sachs banker.
        3. William Boyd is the author of seventeen novels, including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Literary Award and the Somerset Maugham Award;.
        4. Boyd is a peculiar kind of novelist.
        5. Author William Boyd says James Bond "does everything you'd expect" in his new novel Solo, the latest literary outing for Ian Fleming's.

          6. His work includes novels, short stories, screenplays and a memoir and it has been translated into over thirty languages.

          Featured book by William Boyd

          At the dawn of WW2, the young Eva, a Russian émigrée in Paris, is recruited to work for the British Secret Service.

          Under the guidance of her mentor, Lucas Romer, she transforms into the perfect spy, but all is not as it seems. Years later, Eva, or rather the wife and mother Sally Gilmartin, finds herself confronted with her past, and with it, her daughter.

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