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One of our most acclaimed authors takes on a legendary literary character, James Bond -- producing a smart and stylish narrative of international espionage, conspiracy, and war It's 1969, and, just having celebrated his... See More
Anthologies
You have to go back to the 1980s and Granta's bestselling travel issue to find a book that compares to OxTravels. Introduced by Michael Palin, OxTravels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers... See More
Literature & Fiction
"Plant one bamboo shoot-cut bamboo for the rest of your life." William Boyd's prolific, fruitful career is a testament to this old Chinese saying. Boyd penned his first book review in 1978-the proverbial bamboo shoot-and... See More
Literature & Fiction
This "thoroughly entertaining" historical novel has "the pace of a spy thriller, with code-cracking and double-crossing aplenty" (The New Yorker). Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor in town seeking... See More
Literary Fiction
A primatologist flees her broken marriage for a job in war-torn Africa in the renowned author's "brilliant... stunningly magical" novel (Washington Post Book World). William Boyd's classic Brazzaville Beach has been called... See More
Literature & Fiction
When he is hired as the personal piano tuner for a brilliant pianist, Brodie Moncur suddenly finds himself swept up into a life of luxury that he could never have imagined. But while accompanying his new employer on tours... See More
Literature & Fiction
It's summer 1968, and the world is reeling from war and assassinations, protests and riots. In a sunny British seaside town, a producer, a novelist, and an actress are enduring their own more private crises on the set of a... See More
A masterful, riveting espionage novel about a mother whose secret life as a WWII spy is at last revealed to her daughter. Full of tension and drama, emotion and history, this is storytelling at its finest by one of the great... See More
In this extraordinary novel, William Boyd presents the autobiography of John James Todd, whose uncanny and exhilarating life as one of the most unappreciated geniuses of the twentieth century is equal parts Laurence Stern... See More
Short Stories
One of the most beguiling storytellers on either side of the Atlantic delivers a luminous new collection whose 14 stories are a series of variations on the theme of love-and its shady cousin lust. A film director's journal... See More
"William Boyd seems singularly blessed with both an innate love of storytelling and the talent to render those stories in swift, confident prose." -- The New York Times From William Boyd, award-winning author of Brazzaville... See More
Short Stories
This new collection of eleven stories by the author of The Blue Afternoon takes readers back in time from a contemporary Hollywood film shoot to World War I in Vienna, introducing an unforgettable cast of characters. Artful... See More
Literature & Fiction
Sharply observed and brilliantly plotted, Stars and Barsis an uproarious portrait of culture clash deep in the heart of the American South, by one of contemporary literature's most imaginative novelists. A recent transfer... See More
Literary Fiction
"Rich in character and incident, An Ice-Cream War fulfills the ambition of the historical novel at its best." --The New York Times Book Review Booker Prize Finalist "Boyd has more than fulfilled the bright promise of... See More
Literary Criticism
With contributions by: William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Robert Macfarlane, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris, Sisonke Msimang, Dina Nayeri, Chigozie Obioma, Michael Ondaatje... See More
Literary 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... See More
Literary Fiction
On a cold winter's morning, Lorimer Black, an insurance adjustor -- young, good-looking, on the rise -- goes to keep a perfectly ordinary appointment only to find a hanged man. His life is about to be turned upside down and... See More
Literature & Fiction
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... See More
Literary Fiction
"A perfect-pitch story of love and redemption" (The New York Times), Boyd's atmospheric new novel confirms his reputation as heir to the grand narrative traditions of Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham. In 1936 Los angeles... See More
Literary Fiction
William Boyd's masterful new novel tells, in a series of intimate journals, the story of Logan Mountstuart -- writer, lover, art dealer, spy -- as he makes his often precarious way through the twentieth century. See More
Literary Fiction
Born into Edwardian England, Amory's first memory is of her father standing on his head. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she... See More
History
As an Allied soldier, the Ypres salient was a hellish tongue of land to serve in during the First World War. Overlooked by German forces, surrounded on three sides by the enemies' guns, with little or no protection from the... See More
Literature & Fiction
It was a bright spring in 1908. Newlyweds Rob and Maude Martin were beginning their marriage on a new farm in central Illinois. Although their future seemed so bright, they could not know all that was yet to come. On a... See More
Literature & Fiction
A down-on-his luck actor is paired with a weather-battered Land Rover Defender on a seemingly innocuous courier job. But some things are too good to be true and this innocent journey quickly unfolds into a dangerous plot... See More
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Murder mystery set in the deep south. A story of growing up and discovering how taking chances in life is what makes it worth living in the first place. See More
Religion & SpiritualityIs God willing to prevent evil but not able? Is He then impotent? Is God able to prevent evil but not willing? Is He then malevolent? If is both willing and able, whence then is evil? These ancient questions posed by the... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
This is a warm and witty chronicle of the author's memories of growing up in a small town during the Great Depression and World War II. It is a collection of 130 mini-stories about that era. The book is about the people... See More
Children's eBooksThe adventures of White Wing are not simply products of my imagination alone. On a small lake near my sunporch, I have observed all the creatures this book describes. A large flock of geese, numerous mallard and wood ducks... See More
Science Fiction
2020. In a year where nobody can go anywhere, nine authors take you to near futures, far-off worlds, the heights of passion and the depths of terror. But whether you're stuck in a time loop, caught in a haunted house, or a... See More
Literary Fiction
From the award-winning, internationally best-selling author, a beguiling romp of a novel, at once intimate and panoramic, about the adventures and misadventures of a nineteenth-century everyman "Picaresque, big-hearted and... See More