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Book SynopsisWilliam 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 novels include
An Ice Cream War (1982, shortlisted for the 1982 Booker Prize and winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize),
Stars and Bars (1984),
The New Confessions (1987),
Brazzaville Beach (1990, winner of the McVitie Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize),
The Blue Afternoon (1993, winner of the 1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award),
Armadillo (1998),
Any Human Heart (2002, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet) and
Restless (2006, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year Award). His latest novel is Sweet Caress (2015). Some seventeen of his screenplays have been filmed, including
The Trench (1999), which he also directed, and he is also the author of four collections of short stories:
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Trade Review
Wickedly funny * The Times *
If a widening grin is the test of a novel's entertainment value in retrospect, A Good Man in Africa romps home * Guardian *
A delight * Washington Post *
Uproariously funny * Observer *
