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Any Human Heart by William Boyd
26.95 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
25.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary 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 by William Boyd
29.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 (old ISBN) by William Boyd
26.95 NZD
29.95 (10% off)
Category: Fiction
"Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary." So says Logan Mountstuart, the hero of William Boyd's eighth novel. Any Human Heart tells the story of Mountstuart's long and rackety life, one which spans the twentieth century, in all its fantastic and humdrum, dangerous and tranquil, tragic and humo ...Show more
Armadillo by William Boyd
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Street Art
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 prom ...Show more
Armadillo by William Boyd
22.95 NZD
28.00 (18% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
19.95 NZD
34.00 (41% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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".
Fascination by William Boyd
35.00 NZD
37.95 (7% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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. In ...Show more
Granta 100 : Winter 2007 (The 100th Edition!) by William Boyd (ed)
29.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
In 1979, a young American graduate revived an old Cambridge university magazine and created a home for good writing of all kinds
Love Is Blind - The Rapture of Brodie Moncur by William Boyd
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent' Sunday Times 'A finely judged performance: a deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination' Guardian Book of the Week This is William Boyd's sweeping, ...Show more
Love is Blind by William Boyd
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
You don't see me as I really am. All the many nuances of Lika Blum. The light and the dark. You just see the light'When Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father and begin a wildly different new chapter ...Show more