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Bethany Mellmoth hat sich ein großes Ziel gesetzt. Sie will Schriftstellerin werden. Oder vielleicht doch Fotografin? Oder Schauspielerin? So schnell sie einen Plan fasst, so schnell ist er wieder passé. Irgendetwas kommt eben immer dazwischen. Und auch in der Liebe hat Bethany kein glückliches Händchen. An Verehrern ist kein Mangel, nur taugt leider keiner von ihnen. Und als wäre das alles nicht genug, muss Bethany sich auch noch mit den Liebeswirren ihrer Eltern befassen. So stolpert sie durch ihr Leben in London – von Job zu Job, von Mann zu Mann, von Pleite zu Pleite – und lässt doch nie den Kopf hängen: »Dinge gehen eben schief.« Schwungvoll und mit leichter Hand zeichnet William Boyd das Bild einer jungen Frau, der viele Türen offenstehen, die aber trotzdem ständig mit dem Kopf gegen die Wand rennt, und er erzählt von all den kleinen Entscheidungen und Zufällen, die unser Leben formen – ob wir wollen oder nicht.

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. .

Eine furiose Spionagegeschichte aus der Feder von Bestsellerautor William Boyd Wien, 1913. Lysander Rief, ein aufstrebender junger Schauspieler, hat sich nicht zufällig in die Stadt Sigmund Freuds begeben. Vor seiner Hochzeit begegnet er im Wartezimmer seines Therapeuten Hettie und verliebt sich unsterblich. Sie zeigt ihm das ausschweifende Wiener Künstlerleben und drängt ihn in ein undurchschaubares Spiel, das ihn schließlich zur Flucht aus Wien und in die Arme zweier britischer Agenten treibt. »Eine große Zeit« ist eine Erkundung der Tiefen menschlicher Psyche und ein Spionageroman zugleich. Mit meisterhaftet Hand entwirft Boyd einen Kosmos in den Wirren des Ersten Weltkrieges, der die Unruhe und Rastlosigkeit einer Epoche zeigt, den schmalen Grat zwischen Brillanz und Scheitern.

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.

Ein Kunsthändler, notorischer Schürzenjäger, will endlich seine ständigen Liebschaften aufgeben und nur noch leidenschaftlich küssen - das Höchstmaß anAusschweifung, das er sich zugesteht. Aber ist ein Kuss wirklich jemals genug? Ein Paar erzählt die Geschichte seiner Beziehung vom Ende her, dem unerwarteten Wiedersehen im Baumarkt, zurück bis zum ersten Date. Ein doppelt gedemütigter Autor - seine Frau hat ihn verlassen, das Feuilleton sein jüngstes Werk verrissen - tut, was ein Künstler tun muss: Er reist nach Frankreich, wo ihm ne- ben köstlichen Austern auch die Möglichkeit zur Rache an seinem größten Kritiker auf dem Silbertablett serviert wird. Ein Filmregisseur verzweifelt an den Gepflogenheiten Hollywoods - und an der Liebe zu seiner Hauptdarstellerin. Und auch der erfolglose Schauspieler Alec Dunbar bekommt zu spüren, dass ein Unglück selten allein kommt. William Boyds Figuren sind angehende Künstler, Schauspieler und Möchtegern-Schriftsteller, deren hochtrabende Ambitionen schonungslos zur Schau gestellt werden. Wie kein anderer erhellt Boyd die Folgen zufälliger Begegnungen und übereilter Entscheidungen und zeigt erneut, dass er zu den originellsten und fesselndsten Erzählern unserer Zeit gehört.

"From the award-winning, best-selling author comes a rollicking novel with a dark undertow, set around three unforgettable individuals and a doomed movie set. A producer. A novelist. An actress. It's summer 1968--a time of war and assassinations, protests and riots. While the world is reeling, our trio is involved in making a disaster-plagued, Swingin' Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. As the movie shoot zigs and zags, these layers of secrets become increasingly more untenable. Pressures build inexorably. The FBI and CIA get involved. Someone is going to crack--or maybe they all will. From one of Britain's best loved writers comes an exhilarating, tender novel--by turns hilarious and heartbreaking--that asks the vital questions: What makes life worth living? And what do you do if you find it isn't?"--

Set at the end of the 19th century, this sweeping novel follows Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician ready to embark on a transformative journey. Escaping his oppressive clergyman father in Edinburgh, Brodie seizes an opportunity for a new life in Paris. There, a chance encounter with a renowned pianist alters his destiny and ignites a passionate, obsessive love affair with the beautiful Russian soprano, Lika Blum. As Brodie's love for Lika leads him across Europe—from Paris to St Petersburg and back to Edinburgh—he grapples with the tumultuous consequences of their relationship amid the sweeping changes of the era. This narrative weaves together themes of dizzying passion, brutal revenge, and the illusions of artistic endeavor, exploring the myriad possibilities life presents and the harsh realities that can abruptly alter one's path. The novel serves as both an intimate portrait of Brodie's life and a broader exploration of the dawn of the 20th century. It showcases the author's masterful storytelling, drawing readers into a world of emotional depth and historical richness. Critics have praised it as a remarkable return to form, highlighting its cleverness and emotional resonance.

"A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only passionate kisses as a substitute. A man recounts his personal history through the things he has stolen throughout his life. And, at the heart of the book, 24-year-old Bethany Mellmoth embarks on a year-long journey of self-discovery. The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth brilliantly depicts the impulsive decisions that shape a life, and the endless hesitations and loss of nerve that complicate it.".

THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAmory's first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she chiefly remembers. It is her photographer uncle Greville who supplies the emotional bond she needs, and, when he gives her a camera and some rudimentary lessons in photography, unleashes a passion that will irrevocably shape her future. A spell at boarding school ends abruptly and Amory begins an apprenticeship with Greville in London, living in his flat in Kensington, earning two pounds a week photographing socialites for fashionable magazines. But Amory is hungry for more and her search for life, love and artistic expression will take her to the demi monde of Berlin of the late 1920s, to New York of the 1930s, to the Blackshirt riots in London and to France in the Second World War where she becomes one of the first women war photographers. Her desire for experience will lead Amory to further wars, to lovers, husbands and children as she continues to pursue her dreams and battle her demons. In this enthralling story of a life fully lived, William Boyd has created a sweeping panorama of some of the most defining moments of modern history, told through the camera lens of one unforgettable woman, Amory Clay. It is his greatest achievement to date.

The first play by bestselling author William Boyd, Longing adapts two of Chekhov's short stories to weave a comic tale, at once exotic and familiar.

1969. A veteran secret agent. A single mission. A licence to kill. James Bond returns.

A thrilling, plot-twisting novel set in Europe during the first world war, from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms

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

'Agnes Humbert bears devastating witness to her time An insider's account of the germination of the French Resistance' William Boyd

Adam Kindred is in London for a job interview and looking at a bright future. Then he has a chance meeting in a restaurant that results in a series of actions that cost him his family, his money, his very identity. Utterly alone, Adam joins London's underground society of dispossessed and tries to figure out what happened to his life.

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

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".

It is Paris, 1939. Twenty-eight year old Eva Delectorskaya is at the funeral of her beloved younger brother. Standing among her family and friends she notices a stranger. Lucas Romer is a patrician looking Englishman with a secretive air and a persuasive manner. He also has a mysterious connection to Kolia, Eva's murdered brother. Romer recruits Eva and soon she is traveling to Scotland to be trained as a spy and work for his underground network. After a successful covert operation in Belgium, she is sent to New York City, where she is involved in manipulating the press in order to shift American public sentiment toward getting involved in WWII. Three decades on and Eva has buried her dangerous history. She is now Sally Gilmartin, a respectable English widow, living in a picturesque Cotswold village. No one, not even her daughter Ruth, knows her real identity. But once a spy, always a spy. Sally has far too many secrets, and she has no one to trust. Before it is too late, she must confront the demons of her past. This time though she can't do it alone, she needs Ruth's help. Restless is a thrilling espionage novel set during the Second World War and a haunting portrait of a female spy. Full of tension and drama, emotion and history, this is storytelling at its finest.

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.

Dieser einzigartige Zitatenschatz beliebter Gegenwartsautoren bietet nicht nur das richtige Wort zur richtigen Zeit, er ist auch eine überzeugende Strategie, dem Leben auf die Schliche zu kommen: „In Wahrheit ist die Dramatik einer lebensbestimmenden Erfahrung oft von unglaublich leiser Art.“ (Pascal Mercier) Wer die Dichter fragt, darf sich auf außergewöhnliche Antworten freuen. Auf Antworten, die so vielfältig und unvorhersehbar sind wie das Leben selbst. Ob es sich um Glück oder Unglück handelt, Moral und Liebe, um die Auseinandersetzung mit der Gesellschaft, der Familie oder sich selbst - jeder der hier versammelten Schriftsteller versteht es meisterhaft, das Wesentliche mit Humor oder Ernsthaftigkeit literarisch-originell auf den Punkt zu bringen.

William Boyd has been writing well-loved, prize-winning fiction since Penguin published A Good Man in Africa in 1981. His fiction is often a revealing excavation of an individual life and in Protobiography, Boyd turns to his own biography for inspiration, exploring his childhood in West Africa and his schooling in Scotland.

A new collection of stories by the internationally acclaimed author of "Any Human Heart" ("the finest storyteller of his generation" -"Chicago Tribune"). In "Notebook No. 9," a film director's journal becomes an unintentional record of his obsessive love for his leading lady and the slow destruction of their relationship. In "Beulah Berlin, an A--Z," a performance artist, longing for stability and order, reveals the details of her chaotic life through her comments on such varied subjects as angst, hay fever, photography, baby names, sonnets, and tobacco. In "Fantasia on a Favorite Waltz," a prostitute finds an unexpected friend in a young man who plays piano in a brothel. In "Adult Video," we see a man's life in film format-rewinding to his years as a struggling student at Oxford, fast-forwarding to his dreams of success as a writer, and watching the present unfold as he proposes to his future wife for all the wrong reasons. Exploring the ways a life can be dominated by a need for love and the torments that arise when love is misplaced or denied, these stories confirm William Boyd's reputation as a master of the art.

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.

Labyrinthes de souvenirs éphémères, instants de vie réels ou inventés, présent inévitablement tricoté dans le passé, tous les récits réunis dans ce recueil portent la marque d'un écrivain fasciné par le cinéma. Que ce soit avec Visions fugitives (un musicologue américain en route pour un village de la Meuse en ruine pendant la Première Guerre mondiale), Hantise (un architecte-paysagiste, victime d'une étrange schizophrénie), Vidéo pour adultes (le cynisme oxonien dans toute sa splendeur), Fantaisie sur une valse aimée (à Hambourg, une petite prostituée mélomane rencontre un jeune pianiste) ou encore Varengeville (Georges Braque console un petit garçon). Ce recueil pourrait aussi - si le titre n'était pas déjà pris - s'intituler " Je suis une caméra ".

First published in 1930, 'Her Privates We' is the great book of World War I written from the ordinary soldier's point of view. Called the "book of books" by Lawrence of Arabia, 'Her Privates We' is an expressionist classic that magnificently captures the horror of war.

Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression - does not understand why his world is being torn apart, though he does know that for the most part it is made up of bluster and hypocrisy. His business, trying to keep insurance companies from paying out the money they've promised, is a con game run with the protection of the law. One winter's morning, Lorimer goes to keep a perfectly routine business appointment and finds a hanged man. A bad start to the day, by any standards, and an ominous portent of things to come.

This volume contains short stories by William Boyd.

A broke English student dreams of living the high life in Nice. A bat-woman performs at fairs, waiting to become a dancer. A brain surgery patient forgets that he has killed. A desperate virgin falls asleep when, at last, the opportunity arises. Slightly neurotic and somewhat obsessive, Boyd's characters merge with their own dreams. In Boyd's world, everything falsely appears normal. Except these characters stumble, true toys in the hands of the master.

¿Escuela pública – invernadero bizarro? ¿Infierno en la tierra? ¿El mejor momento de tu vida? En el momento más formativo y turbulento de sus vidas, el cinco por ciento de nuestros adolescentes varones se exilia, encerrados en los fríos y mal equipados edificios de la escuela secundaria de un solo sexo. Los maravillosamente cómicos y oscuramente cuestionadores guiones de William Boyd, Good and Bad at Games y Dutch Girls , recrean con dolorosa intimidad la farsa y el arrobo, los rígidos códigos y las a veces absurdamente trágicas pretensiones de ese terreno de forzamiento tan extraordinario. Esta obra también contiene las memorias sinceras de William Boyd sobre sus días escolares.

Los Angeles 1936. Kay Fischer, a young ambitious architect is shadowed by Salvador Carriscant, an enigmatic stranger claiming to be her father. Within weeks of their first meeting, Kay will join him for an extraordinary journey into the old man's past, initially in search of a murderer, but finally in celebration of a glorious, undying love. 'William Boyd always, and justifiably, been described as a great storyteller... here he creates a world both elegiac and hopeful, and achingly memorable.' The Times 'Richly entertaining... Boyd has organised his narrative into one elegant and almost seamless weave.' Independent

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 enthralling.

Dobrým človekom je sympatický smoliar Morgan, tajomník britskej misie v Africkom štáte. Ako neskúsený sa dopúšťa mnohých chýb a dostáva sa do trápnych situácii. Stretáva sa tu so škótskym lekárom, ktorý je veľmi neprístupný, ale nakoniec sa stáva jeho svedomím a burcuje jeho zmysel pre spravodlivosť..

RO60065249. STARS AND BARS. 1988. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 347 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!' – British soldier, East Africa, October 1914As millions were slaughtered on the Western Front, a ridiculous and little-reported campaign was waged in East Africa – a war they continued after the Armistice because no one told them to stop.Primarily a gripping story of the men and women swept up by the passions of love and battle, William Boyd's magnificently entertaining novel also elicits the cruel futility and tragedy of it all.'As ambitious as it is remarkable – balances on seesaws of innocence and violence, sanity and lunacy, hilarity and horror' – The Times'He has a black-edged laughter of his own – quite outstanding' – Claire Tomalin in the Sunday Times'Funny, assured and expansively told, a seriocomic romp. But it's also something maturely more – a study of people caught in the side pockets of calamity that dramatizes their plights with humour, detail and grit' – Harper's

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.

Wiliam Boyd, winner of the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards, introduces unlikely heroes desperate to redeem their unsatisfying lives. From California poolsides to the battlegrounds of Vietnam, here is a world populated by weary souls who turn to fantasy as their sole escape from life's inequities. Stranded in an African hotel during a coup, an oafish Englishman impresses a young stewardess with stories of an enchanted life completely at odds with his sordid existence in "The Coup." In the title story, an arrogant, sadistic American pilot in Vietnam underestimaets the power of revenge when he relentlessly persecutes a member of his maintenance crew. With droll humor and rare compassion, Boyd's enthralling stories remind us of his stature as one of contemporary fiction's finest storytellers.