One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a split-second decision, the young climatologist Adam Kindred loses everything - home, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, money - never to get them back. With the police and a hit man in merciless pursuit, Adam has no choice but [...]
One May evening in Chelsea, London, a freakish series of malign accidents and a split-second decision turns Adam Kindred's life upside down for ever. The police are searching for him. There is a reward for his capture. He is alone and anonymous in the huge, pitiless modern city. Adam has nowhere to [...]
The infamous literary prank that fooled a legion of art critics in the 1990s Artist Nathwell Tate was born in 1928 in Union Beach, New Jersey. On January 8 1960 he contrived to round up and burn almost his entire output of Abstract Expressionism. Four days later he killed himself. This book offers a[...]
Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with eminent psychiatrist, Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis when a young woman enters. Lysander is immediately drawn [...]
Vienna, 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis when a young woman ent[...]
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Vienna, 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 immediate[...]
It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree 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, inc[...]
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Vienna, 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 immediate[...]
The first play by bestselling author William Boyd, Longing adapts two of Chekhov's short stories, A Visit to Friends and My Life, 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.
Det er forår i London. Adam Kindred, en ung klimatolog er i byen til et job-interview. Han går en tur langs Themsen, og da han kommer forbi en hyggelig italiensk restaurant går han derind for at få stillet sin sult. Under måltidet falder han tilfældigvis i snak med en anden enlig g[...]
Det är 1969 och agent 007 har sänts på ett uppdrag till Västafrika och den lilla staten Zanzarim, för att där på egen hand försöka stoppa ett inbördeskrig. Assisterad av en vacker medhjälpare men hindrad av den lokala milisen tvingas han, efter en skrämmande upplevelse, att ignorera M oc[...]
William Boyd är en av Englands mest uppskattade författare och hedrades så sent som 2013, vid London Book Fair med att utses som "Author of The Day". Han har också erhållit den Brittiska Imperie Orden (CBE) 2005. Han föddes i Accra, Ghana 1952 och spenderade sina första år där och i Nigeria[...]
RASTLÖS / William Boyd
Året är 1939 och Eva Delectorskaja, en ung, vacker och begåvad rysk emigrant i Paris blir värvad till London för att utbildas till den perfekta spionen. Efter kriget byggde hon med samma perfektion upp ett nytt liv som den typiska engelska hustrun och modern. Efter[...]
SOLO / William Boyd
Det är 1969 och agent 007 har sänts på ett uppdrag till Västafrika och den lilla staten Zanzarim, för att där på egen hand försöka stoppa ett inbördeskrig. Assisterad av en vacker medhjälpare men hindrad av den lokala milisen tvingas han, efter en skrämmande uppl[...]
Cato s second century BCE De Agricultura is our earliest complete Latin prose text, recommends farming for its security and profitability, and advises on management of labor and resources. Varro s Res rustica (37 BCE) is not a practical treatise but instruction, in dialogue form, about agricultural [...]
First published privately in 1929 as The Middle Parts of Fortune, Her Privates We is the novel of the Battle of the Somme told from the perspective of Bourne, an ordinary private. A raw and shockingly honest portrait of men engaged in war, 'that peculiarly human activity', the original edition was s[...]