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Gabriel Dax’ Nächte sind kurz. Seit seiner Kindheit leidet er unter Albträumen: Erinnerungen an jene verhängnisvolle Nacht, in der seine Mutter und sein Elternhaus einem verheerenden Brand zum Opfer fielen. Seiner Schlaflosigkeit zum Trotz ist der gefeierte Reiseschriftsteller aus Chelsea auf der ganzen Welt unterwegs – einer vom Kalten Krieg zerrissenen Welt. In Zentralafrika bietet sich ihm die exklusive Gelegenheit, den ersten Ministerpräsidenten des erst seit Kurzem unabhängigen Kongo zu interviewen. Dax wittert eine große Story, doch dann verschwindet Patrice Lumumba kurz nach ihrem Gespräch spurlos. Für die britische Presse ist der afrikanische Politiker damit auf einen Schlag Schnee von gestern, stattdessen aber haben plötzlich diverse Geheimdienste Interesse an Dax’ Aufzeichnungen, allen voran die mysteriöse Agentin Faith Green, deren Charme Dax bald zum Verhängnis wird. Er ahnt: Lumumba hat in dem Gespräch mehr offenbart, als so manchem lieb ist.

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.

A producer. A novelist. An actress.It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. While the world is reeling our trio is involved in making a rackety Swingin' Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives.As the film is shot, with its usual drastic ups and downs, so does our trio's private, secret world begin to take over their public one. Pressures build inexorably - someone's going to crack. Or maybe they all will.From one of Britain's bestselling writers comes an exhilarating, tender novel that asks the vital questions- what makes life worth living? And what do you do if you find it isn't?

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.

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.".

Un don juan patenté s'impose la chasteté mais compense en collectionnant les baisers volés ; un kleptomane retrace son parcours de vie à travers les objets qu'il a dérobés ; un couple séparé se retrouve par hasard et remonte les cinq ans de sa relation, en partant de la rupture banale pour revenir au coup de foudre initial ; une jeune femme qui accumule les échecs professionnels et amoureux réussit à toujours avancer en faisant du surplace ; un acteur naïf voit sa vraie vie se transformer en un cauchemardesque thriller de série B. Tous ces chemins que nous n'avons pas pris nous donne à voir ces rencontres fortuites qui font affleurer le passé à la surface de nos émotions, ces décisions impulsives qui changent irrévocablement le cours d'une vie, ces hésitations et renoncements qui compliquent tout.

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.

1969. Espion chevronné, membre surdoué des services secrets de Sa Majesté, James Bond célèbre ses quarante-cinq ans avec une mission peu ordinaire : mettre un terme à la guerre civile qui déchire le Zanzarim, petit pays d’Afrique occidentale. Aidé par la ravissante Grâce mais piégé par les forces rebelles, il est grièvement blessé. Dès lors, il ignore les ordres de M, son énigmatique patron. Poussé par un désir téméraire de vengeance, il s’engage en solitaire dans une folle aventure, qui l’emmène à Washington. Il y découvre un réseau d’intrigues géopolitiques et devient le témoin d’autres atrocités. 007 tient sa revanche. Mais aura-t-il vraiment raison de son ennemi, l’homme aux deux visages ?

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

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.

It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided by a beautiful accomplice and hindered by the local militia, he undergoes a scarring experience which compels him to ignore M's orders…

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERVienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic, intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is immediately drawn to her, unaware of how destructive the consequences of their subsequent affair will be. One year later, home in London, Lysander finds himself entangled in the dangerous web of wartime intelligence - a world of sex, scandal and spies that is slowly, steadily, permeating every corner of his life...

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

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

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 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian émigrée living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, including those she loves most. Since the war, Eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically English wife and mother. But once a spy, always a spy. Now she must complete one final assignment, and this time Eva can't do it alone: she needs her daughter's help.

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.

This is William Boyd's third volume of short stories following his acclaimed collections On the Yankee Station (1981) and The Destiny of Nathalie X (1995). Described as the finest storyteller of his generation, Boyd shows his mastery of the form as these stories range widely through time and space.

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 ".

Lorimer Black goes to keep a perfectly routine business appointment and finds a hanged man. His life is turned upside down and inside out. To compound matters, he falls in love with a married actress and his job degenerates remorselessly.

This volume contains short stories by William Boyd.

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.

Dr Hope Clearwater lives on an African beach reflecting on the complicated, violent and tragic events that brought her there her stormy marriage to John, a brilliant mathematician, her painstaking research work among the wild chimpanzees in the national park, her encounters with the chaos of the civil war. She examines her past and tries to find tranquility.

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.

‘This is what I have done and this is what has been done to me…’ Thus begins the extraordinary, candid story of John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899, who presents himself as one of the great self-appointed geniuses of the twentieth century. His life is marked by an astonishingly rich and diverse career, filled with remarkable successes and dramatic failures. Narrated in his own words from the perspective of not-so-serene old age and self-imposed exile, Todd reveals the secrets of his fraught and intriguing existence. Starting with his bizarre boyhood and schooldays in Scotland, we follow his incredible experiences during the First World War, his time in 1920s Berlin, and his journey through Mexico in 1939. The narrative continues through the Allied invasion of St. Tropez and the McCarthy era in Los Angeles. Todd is portrayed as charming yet exasperating, shrewd yet foolish, vain yet disarmingly straightforward. While we may question some of his accounts, he ultimately concludes, ‘I have done all that being-human business, all right.’ As we delve into Todd's astonishing life, we trace one individual's erratic path through the chaos of the century, discovering curious facts about Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the art of making the perfect dry martini along the way.

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..

437 pages. Poche. Broché. En 1914, au pied du Kilimandjaro, l'écho d'un attentat à Sarajevo retentit. Colons, fermiers et militaires s'engagent avec ferveur dans la guerre, persuadés qu'elle ne durera que deux mois à cause de la chaleur. Quatre ans plus tard, l'armée allemande d'Afrique n'a toujours pas capitulé, car personne ne lui a ordonné de le faire. Cette guerre cocasse, ubuesque et meurtrière, souvent ignorée des grandes batailles d'Europe, sert de toile de fond à un roman qui a établi son auteur parmi les plus éminents de sa génération. Les personnages principaux incluent Temple Smith, un fermier américain dynamique et passionné de machines ; Eric von Bishop, un voisin allemand mélancolique dont l'épouse, Liesl, incarne l'ennui ; et Félix, un étudiant d'Oxford qui aspire à être un esthète cynique. Son frère, Gabriel, un officier de carrière, traverse une lune de miel difficile avec la jeune et candide Charis. Ces six héros, pas toujours très héroïques, vivent des aventures oscillant entre folie et raison, hilarité et horreur, le tout raconté avec une verve graphique et une ironie tendre.

Adolescent sex in a Scottish boys' public school ... Oddballs on the seedy side of America ... Murder in a quiet Devon cottage ... Comical, ironical or lacerating - wit is the keynote of these stories, which include two early adventures from the career of Morgan Leafy, glorious anti-hero of William Boyd's prize-winning novel ‘A Good Man in Africa’. ‘His writing, with nods in the direction of Borges and Nabokov, combines violence, comedy and experiment … an impressively varied collection’ Time Out.

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.