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A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Escapee from suburbia, overweight, oversexed ...Morgan Leafy isn't overburdened with worldly success. Actually, he is refreshingly free from it. But then, as a representative of Her Britannic Majesty in tropical Kinjanja, it was not very constructive of him to get involved in wholesale bribery. Nor was ...Show more
A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the small African republic of Kinjanja, British diplomat Morgan Leafy bumbles heavily through his job. His love of women, his fondness for drink, and his loathing for the country prove formidable obstacles on his road to any kind of success. But when he becomes an operative in Operation Kingpin and i ...Show more
An Ice-cream War by William Boyd
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
An Ice-Cream War is William Boyd's sparkling debut novel on the grimly comic side of conflict, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'What do you think would happen if I shot an elephant in the balls?' 'I think it would hurt a great deal.' Millions die on the Western Front but in East Afr ...Show more
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is the story of Logan Mountstuart, told through his intimate journals. His life spans the 20th century and his travels take the reader from Uruguay to Oxford, Paris, the Bahamas, New York and Africa. We meet his three wives, and notaries from the worlds of royalty and literature. Every life is both ...Show more
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
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 ...Show more
Any Human Heart (U.S. Edition) by William Boyd
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
The author of "Armadillo, The Blue Afternoon" and "Brazzaville Beach" now pens his most entertaining, sly and compelling novel to date, a novel that evokes the tumult, events and iconic faces of our time, as it tells the story of Logan Mountstuart--writer, lover and man of the world--through his intimat ...Show more
Armadillo by William Boyd
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Lorimer Black goes to keep a business appointment and finds a hanged man. This is just the start of what turns out to be a horrendous period for Lorimer as he realizes that he's being set up at work and cast adrift outside the office.
Bamboo by William Boyd
$29.95 AUD
Category: Essays
Throughout his career as a novelist, William Boyd has never stopped writing non-fiction, providing a fascinating counterpoint to the world of his novels. Bamboo gathers together Boyd's writing on literature, art, the movie business, television, people he has met, places he has visited and autobiographi ...Show more
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the heart of a civil war–torn African nation, primate researcher Hope Clearwater made a shocking discovery about apes and man. . . . Young, alone, and far from her family in Britain, Hope Clearwater contemplates the extraordinary events that left her washed up like driftwood on Brazzaville Beach. It ...Show more
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'I live on Brazzaville Beach...I am here because two sets of strange and extraordinary events happened to me...One in England, first, and then one in Africa.' On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. Sifting the details for e ...Show more
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A story set in Africa and seen through the eyes of a young woman who is working on a field study of chimpanzees. The author also wrote "A Good Man in Africa", "An Ice-Cream War", "Stars and Bars", "The New Confessions" and "On the Yankee Station".