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William Boyd

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Inquietudine è un romanzo di spionaggio scritto nel 2006 da William Boyd. Da questo soggetto la BBC ha tratto nel 2012 la serie televisiva Restless.

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Ogni cuore umano è un romanzo di William Boyd del 2002. L'autore ha realizzato anche la sceneggiatura per la versione televisiva andata in onda su Channel 4 nel 2010.

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On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. Sifting the details for evidence of her own innocence or guilt, she tells her engrossing story with a blunt and beguiling honesty that not only intrigues and disturbs but is also completely …

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Ordinary Thunderstorms is a novel by William Boyd. It explores the dark side of London's underworld and the international pharmaceutical industry.

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One of the most beguiling storytellers on either side of the Atlantic delivers a luminous new collection whose 14 stories are a series of variations on the theme of love–and its shady cousin lust. A film director’s journal becomes an unintended chronicle of his deepening and ruinous obsession with a leading lady …

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A Good Man in Africa is the first novel by William Boyd, published in 1981. It won both the Whitbread Book Award for a first novel and the Somerset Maugham Award that year.

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Armadillo is William Boyd's seventh novel, published in 1998. It was the first of his novels to be based in Britain. Boyd also wrote the screenplay for a BBC/A&E television adaptation in 2001.

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Come neve al sole è un romanzo di William Boyd del 1982, nominato tra i finalisti del Booker Prize. Il romanzo può essere considerato una satira sull'incapacità delle autorità in tempo di guerra.

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"A perfect-pitch story of love and redemption" (The New York Times), Boyd's atmospheric new novel confirms his reputation as heir to the grand narrative traditions of Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham. In 1936 Los angeles, as her long-estranged father tells architect Kay Fischer the story behind her secret parentage, …

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In un freddo giorno di marzo del 1899, in una Edimburgo lontana dai restauri e dal trambusto dozzinali di oggi, fiera dei suoi edifici anneriti dal fumo e dalle ceneri di un milione di camini, e orgogliosa dello stato di avanzato declino delle sue pietre, nasce John James Todd, il personaggio creato da William Boyd in …