The dazzling new book from one of Britain's best-selling novelists.
William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. His first novel, A Good Man in Africa (1981), won the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Somerset Maugham Prize. His other bestselling novels include Any Human Heart, Restless and Sweet Caress. He is married and divides his time between London and south-west France.
Boyd shows why he's so often compared to Graham Greene....
brilliant and bewitching collection of stories
*Financial Times*
Like stealing badges, like shucking oysters, once you have one of
these stories you can't stop. Lights out was after midnight
*Times*
Clever and, yes, cinematic
*Observer*
The stories, as is often the case with Boyd, are packed with
characters whose lives are upended by random upheavals
*Sunday Times*
Unfailingly amusing and clever
*Guardian*
In a 2008 essay, Boyd explained that writing short stories gives
him a welcome chance "to change habits, to experiment, to take
risks, to try out different voices". And in the best stories here,
it's a chance he takes full advantage of, serving up an impressive
variety of settings and protagonists
*Daily Telegraph*
Highly entertaining
*Mail on Sunday*
Boyd is dependably a master of what's most true: an always elegant
realist whose characters will get under your skin
*GQ*
No one charts the highs and lows of the human condition like
Boyd
*Red*
A riveting short story collection from one of the best
*Woman & Home*
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