Новинки Уильяма Бойда

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. . .

'Sheer, truly brilliant storytelling. He has probably written more classic books than any of his contemporaries’ Daily Telegraph

‘If it’s true escapism you’re after, William Boyd can always be relied upon to transport the reader from reality’ Vogue

'A master storyteller' Observer

Солдат. Фермер. Преступник. Писатель. Отец. Любовник.
Один человек, много жизней.
Родившись в 1799 году, Кэшел Гревилл Росс проживает множество жизней: радостных и горестных, удачных и не очень.
Переезжая из графства Корк в Лондон, из Ватерлоо в Занзибар, Кэшел ищет свою судьбу на разных континентах.
Так в деревне на Шри-Ланке в составе ост-индской армии он оказывается перед страшным моральным выбором. В Пизе он попадает в мир поэтов-романтиков. В Равенне он встречает женщину, которая будет жить в его сердце до конца его дней.
Путешествуя по миру в качестве солдата, фермера, преступника, писателя, отца, любовника, он переживает все превратности судьбы и открывает для себя свою истинную сущность.
Книга Уильяма Бойда “The Romantic” заинтересует тех читателей, кому по душе драматические произведения и художественная проза.
Книга на английском языке.
Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover.
One man, many lives.
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.
From one of Britain's best-loved and bestselling writers comes an intimate yet panoramic novel set across the nineteenth century.

Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover.
One man, many lives.
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.
From one of Britain's best-loved and bestselling writers comes an intimate yet panoramic novel set across the nineteenth century.

'An elating read' Sunday Times

A producer. A novelist. An actress.

It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. There are riots in Paris and the Vietnam War is out of control. While the world is reeling our three characters are involved in making a Swingin' Sixties movie in sunny Brighton.

All are leading secret lives. Elfrida is drowning her writer's block in vodka; Talbot, coping with the daily dysfunc

The infamous literary hoax that fooled the art world
On January 8 1960, artist Nat Tate set out to burn his entire life's work. Four days later he jumped off a Staten Island ferry, killing himself. His body was never found.
When William Boyd published his biography of Abstract Expressionist Nat Tate, tributes poured in from a whole host of artists and critics in the New York art world. They

«Мы все растаем, как мороженое на солнце!»
Британский солдат. Восточная Африка. 1914 год.
На Западном фронте погибают миллионы. Но в Восточной Африке разворачивается нелепая и совершенно забытая всеми кампания, которая продолжается и после перемирия, потому что никто не удосужился сказать ее участникам, что все давным-давно закончилось…
Книга Уильяма Бойда “An Ice-cream War” из серии “Penguin Decades” заинтересует тех читателей, кому по душе военная проза, исторический жанр, а также любителей черного юмора.
Книга на английском языке.
'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!'
British soldier, East Africa, 1914.
On the Western Front millions are being slaughtered. But in East Africa a ridiculous and utterly ignored campaign is being waged - one that continues after the Armistice because no one bothers to tell the participants to stop.
As the conflict sweeps up Africans and colonials, so those left at home and those fighting abroad find themselves unable to escape the tide of history bearing down on them.

На пляже Браззавиля, в Африке, Хоуп Клируотер размышляет о странных обстоятельствах, заставивших ее оставить в Англии мужа Джона с его страстью к математике и отправиться в Африку, чтобы помочь всемирно известному ученому Юджину Маллабару в его исследованиях диких шимпанзе.
Но чем лучше Хоуп узнает Маллабара, тем больше убеждается, что здесь что-то не так. За его одержимостью работой скрывается зловещая правда, которая, возможно, сможет объяснить причины отъезда Хоуп из Англии...
Книга Уильяма Бойда “Brazzaville Beach”, отмеченная Мемориальной премией Джеймса Тейта Блэка, заинтересует тех читателей, кому по душе драматические произведения.
Книга на английском языке.
On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater ponders the strange circumstances that led her to leave her husband John, and his mathematical obsessions, in England and venture to Africa to help world-renowned scientist Eugene Mallabar with his studies of wild chimps.
But the more Hope studies Mallabar, the more she comes to believe that something isn't right. That behind Mallabar, and his obsessive work, there lies another, more sinister truth: one that might also help explain Hope's reasons for leaving England . . .

Однажды зимним утром Лоример Блэк – молодой, симпатичный, но с несколько задумчивым взглядом – отправляется на совершенно обычную деловую встречу и обнаруживает повешенного человека. День не задался с самого утра…Да и в целом все это похоже на зловещее предзнаменование.
И вот Лоримера начинают несправедливо обвинять во всевозможных нарушениях, связанных с его работой в слегка коррумпированной компании. Затем он сам чуть не попал в беду. И, наконец, он начинает понимать, что та жизнь, которая у него была до сих пор – одна сплошная ложь.
Книга Уильяма Бойда «Броненосец» заинтересует тех читателей, кому по душе детективный жанр и драматические произведения.
Книга на английском языке.
One winter morning, Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression - goes to keep a perfectly routine business appointment and finds a hanged man. A bad start to the day, by anyone's standards, and an ominous portent.
For Lorimer works in the only-slightly corrupt business of financial adjusting, and he is about to learn that it is much uglier - and even more crooked - than he ever imagined. Suddenly, he's being unfairly blamed for all kinds of irregularities. Next, his life is threatened. And, lastly, he's coming to realise that the life he has led till now - the one someone wants to rub out - is one big fat lie . . .

Англичанин Хендерсон Дорес, проживающий в Нью-Йорке, чувствует себя совершенно не в своей тарелке.
Америка, страна сумасшедших миллионеров, поэтов в метро и религиозных фанатиков, настолько пугающая для застенчивого Хендерсона, что он вряд ли когда-нибудь сможет вписаться в нее.
Все что он хочет – это сосредоточиться на своей работе в качестве эксперта по искусству, но его запутанная личная жизнь постоянно ему мешает.
Но только когда его отправляют на Юг Америки для изучения редкой коллекции картин, дела принимают опасный для жизни оборот. Но, как говорится, что нас не убивает, делает нас сильнее…
Книга Уильяма Бойда “Stars and Bars” заинтересует тех читателей, кому по душе юмористические истории и художественная проза.
Книга на английском языке.
Henderson Dores is an Englishman in New York - and completely out of his depth.
He should be concentrating on his job as an art assessor, but his complicated personal life keeps intruding. And that's before we even get to his sense of alienation, of being a fish out of water. For Henderson is a shy man lost in a country of extraverts and weirdos. Subway poets, loony millionaires, Bible-bashers and sharp-suited hoods stalk him wherever he goes. But it is only when he's sent to America's deep South to examine a rare collection of paintings that matters take a life-threatening turn. Still, if it doesn't kill you, they say it can only make you stronger . . .

Морган Лифи – едва ли самый респектабельный из представителей Ее Величества в западноафриканском штате Кинджанджа. Однако его поведение не соответствует его высокой должности. Для начала ему, вероятно, не стоило ввязываться в коррупционные схемы. Также ему не следовало прихлестывать за дочерью своего босса... Прямо скажем, не слишком удачный шаг для его карьеры...
Но жизнь молодого Моргана Лифи скоро кардинально изменится, ведь у Моргана на руках труп – и каким-то образом ему придется от него избавиться...
Книга Уильяма Бойда “A Good Man in Africa” заинтересует тех читателей, кому по душе драматические произведения, а также сатирические истории.
Книга на английском языке.
Overweight, oversexed and over there . . .
Morgan Leafy is hardly the most respectable of Her Majesty's representatives in the West African state of Kinjanja. For starters, he probably shouldn't have involved himself in wholesale bribery. Nor was it a good career move to go chasing after his boss's daughter; especially when his doctor banned him from horizontal pursuits.
But life is about to change for young Morgan Leafy. Every betrayal and humiliation he has suffered at the hands of petty persecutors is suddenly put into perspective. For Morgan has a dead body on his hands - and somehow, some way he's going to have to get rid of it . . .

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 from others throughout his life. A couple chart the journey of their five year relationship backwards, from awkward reunion to lovelorn first encounter. And, at the heart of the book, a 24-year old young woman, Bethany Mellmoth, embarks on a year-long journey of wishful and tentative self-discovery.
The

Love is Blind is William Boyd's sweeping, heart-stopping new novel - set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life. When Brodie 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 in his life. In Paris, a fateful encounter with a famous pianist irrevocably changes his future - and sparks an obsessive love affair with a beautiful Russian soprano, Lika Blum. Moving from Paris to St Petersburg to Edinburgh and back again, Brodie's love for Lika and its dangerous consequences pursue him around Europe and beyond, during an era of overwhelming change as the 19th century becomes the 20th. Love is Blind is a tale of dizzying passion and brutal revenge; of artistic endeavour and the illusions it creates; of all the possibilities that life can offer, and how cruelly they can be snatched away. At once an intimate portrait of one man's life and an expansive exploration of the beginning of the 20th century, Love is Blind is a masterly new novel from one of Britain's best loved storytellers.

"Love is Blind" is William Boyd's sweeping, heart-stopping new novel. Set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life. When Brodie 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 in his life. In Paris, a fateful encounter with a famous pianist irrevocably changes his future - and sparks an obsessive love affair with a beautiful Russian soprano, Lika Blum. Moving from Paris to St Petersburg to Edinburgh and back again, Brodie's love for Lika and…

Eva Delectorskaya, a beautiful Russian emigree living in Paris, is recruited for the British Secret Service by the mysterious Lucas Romer. Under his tutelage she becomes the perfect spy - trusting no one, even those she loves most.

Since the close of the Second World War, Eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typical English wife. 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.

Amory Clay's first memory is of her father doing a handstand - but it is his absences that she chiefly remembers. Her Uncle Greville, a photographer, gives her both the affection she needs and a camera, which unleashes a passion that irrevocably shapes her future. She begins an apprenticeship with him in London, photographing socialites for magazines. But Amory is hungry for more and her search for life, love and artistic expression will take her to the demi-monde of 1920s Berlin, New York in the 1930s, the Blackshirt riots in London, and France during the Second World War, where she becomes one of the first women war photographers. In this enthralling story of a life fully lived, William Boyd has created a sweeping panorama of the twentieth century, told through the camera lens of one unforgettable woman.

Ein Klick, die Blende schließt – der Startschuss zu einem neuen Leben. Mit sieben hält Amory Clay ihre erste Kamera in Händen, eine Kodak Brownie Nummer 2, und mit ihr sind alle Weichen gestellt. Amory Clay, Fotografin, Reisende, Kriegsberichterstatterin. Statt als Gesellschaftsfotografin in London zu reüssieren, lässt Amory alles Vertraute hinter sich und beginnt 1931 ein Leben voller Unwägbarkeiten in Berlin. Ein Berlin der Nachtclubs, des Jazz, der Extravaganz und Freizügigkeit – und der ersten Anzeichen von Bedrohung und Willkür. Amory Clay, eine Frau, die ihrer Zeit weit voraus ist, die unerschrocken ihren Weg geht, ihre Lieben lebt, ihre Geschicke selbst in die Hand nimmt. Tief fühlt sich William Boyd in sie ein und versteht es glänzend, Fiktion und Geschichte miteinander zu verschränken: das ausschweifende Berlin der frühen dreißiger Jahre, New York, wo sie den Mann trifft, der alles verändert, Paris im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Nach »Ruhelos« hat Boyd erneut eine unvergessliche Heldin geschaffen, eine verwegene, verblüffend moderne Frau, einen Künstlerroman, der das Porträt einer ganzen Epoche zeichnet.

When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. Entrenched poverty, stunted labor markets, vast stretches of cutover lands, and severe soil erosion prevailed across the southern states. By the middle of the twentieth century, however, pine trees had become the region's number one cash crop, and the South dominated national and international production of pulp and paper based on the intensive cultivation of timber. In "The Slain Wood," William Boyd chronicles the dramatic growth of the pulp and paper industry in the American South during the twentieth…

Amory'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…

Funny, moving & sharply observed, these stories are confirmation of Boyd's status as one of English fiction's finest writers. Here are 24 gripping tales told in bold, distinct voices from Brazil to Africa and from Nice to Hollywood.

An Ice-Cream War is William Boyd's sparkling debut novel on the grimly comic side of conflict, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'What do you think would happen if I shot an elephant in the balls?' 'I think it would hurt a great deal.' Millions die on the Western Front but in East Africa a quite different war is being waged - one with little point and which is so ignored that it will carry on after the Armistice because no one bothers to tell both sides to stop. As the conflict sweeps up natives and colonials, so those left at home and those fighting abroad find themselves unable to escape the tide of history bearing down on them.