William Boyd Libri

È l'estate del 1976, un'interminabile calda estate inglese. Ruth Gilmartin arriva nel minuscolo villaggio di Middle Ashton, dove vive sua madre. Il paese appare immutato, una Shangri-La all'incontrario, con la grande casa del XVII secolo che traballa e la chiesa sempre più buia e umida, avvolta da alberi che la portano in un crepuscolo perenne. La villetta di Sally, la madre di Ruth, è immersa in un verde selvaggio. Tuttavia, la visita di Ruth non è come le altre: sua madre ha un comportamento bizzarro. Appare sulla soglia seduta su una sedia a rotelle, con le braccia aperte per accogliere figlia e nipote. Una volta dentro, sorprendentemente si alza, bacia Jochen e si avvicina alla finestra per sbirciare fuori verso il bosco. Ruth percepisce che qualcosa di strano sta accadendo, una sensazione che si trasforma in angoscia quando Sally le porge un raccoglitore di cuoio, dicendo: "Vorrei che lo leggessi". Sul contenitore è scritto: "Storia di Eva Delektorskaja".

A collection of twenty-four tales told in bold, distinct voices from Brazil to Africa and from Nice to Hollywood.

Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and betrayed in the war and as an art-dealer in '60s New York, Logan mixes with the movers and shakers of his times. But as a son, friend, lover and husband, he makes the same mistakes we all do in our search for happiness. Here, then, is the story of a life lived to the full - and a journey deep into a very human heart.

William Boyd's first collection of non-fiction is a substantial volume of writings from the last three decades that range widely over his particular interests and obsessions. bamboo gathers together Boyd's writing on literature, art, the movie business, television, people he has met, places he has visited and autobiographical reflections on his African childhood, his years at boarding school anf the profession of novelist.

A thrilling, plot-twisting novel from the author of the bestseller Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year.

Duncan Thaw, the narrator, has to cope with a loveless family and the drudgery of growing to maturity in Glasgow. Elsewhere the author moves Thaw into fantasy when he sends him to Unthank, a city he is condemned to after his death. From the author of "Something Leather".

In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain’s greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant streets of sixties London to the sun-soaked cobbles of Cadiz and the frosty squares of Warsaw, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsession. Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of a every night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his childhood home in flames. His days are spent on the move as an acclaimed travel writer, capturing the changing landscapes in the grip of the Cold War. When he’s offered the chance to interview a political figure, his ambition leads him unwittingly into a web of duplicities and betrayals.As Gabriel’s reluctant initiation takes hold, he is drawn deeper into the shadows. Falling under the spell of Faith Green, an enigmatic and ruthless MI6 handler, he becomes ‘her spy’, unable to resist her demands. But amid the peril, paranoia and passion consuming Gabriel’s new covert life, it will be the revelations closer to home that change the rest of his story. .

John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth century. This book deals with his life and work.

Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives- joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving from County Cork to London, from Waterloo to Zanzibar, Cashel seeks his fortune across continents in war and in peace. He faces a terrible moral choice in a village in Sri Lanka as part of the East Indian Army. He enters the world of the Romantic Poets in Pisa. In Ravenna he meets a woman who will live in his heart for the rest of his days. As he travels the world as a soldier, a farmer, a felon, a writer, a father, a lover, he experiences all the vicissitudes of life and, through the accelerating turbulence of the nineteenth century, he discovers who he truly is. This is the romance of life itself, and the beating heart of The Romantic.

The infamous literary prank that fooled a legion of art critics in the 1990s