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En 1914, con Europa convertida en un gigantesco campo de batalla, al ejército británico no se le ocurre nada mejor que invadir la parte de África oriental que está en poder de los alemanes. Felix Cobb, un joven inglés de buena familia que desprecia profundamente todo lo relacionado con el ejército, se ve metido en la refriega y entrará en contacto con una serie de personajes que, como él, están allí más por los avatares del destino que por convicción.

What happens to your life when everything you thought you knew about your mother turns out to be an elaborate lie? Ruth Gilmartin discovers the strange and haunting truth about her mother, Sally, during the long hot summer of 1976. For Sally Gilmartin is not what she seems at all. Russian by birth, she was recruited into the British Secret Service in Paris in 1939 and spent the war years as a spy. But once a spy, always a spy. Sally Gilmartin has far too many dangerous secrets, and she has no one to trust. Before it is too late, she must confront the demons of her past. This time though she can't do it alone, she needs Ruth's help. "Restless" is yet another tour de force from William Boyd. Exploring the devastating consequences of duplicity and betrayal, it is a thrilling novel that captures the drama of the Second World War and a remarkable portrait of a female spy. Full of suspense, emotion and history, this is storytelling at its very finest.

Gathers together William 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 and the profession of novelist.

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 a brilliant array of styles and narratives we move from 1930s Germany to Los Angeles in the Second World War, from contemporary Oxford to 19th century Russia. Whether in London or Amsterdam. Eastbourne or a Normandy village these stories explore and expose the fraught, funny, absurd, poignant and lovelorn lives of their many and varied characters.

Henderson Dores es un tímido inglés de treinta y nueve años, tasador de una importante galería de arte en Nueva York, que está enamorado del pueblo americano y desea con todas sus fuerzas ser aceptado por aquella sociedad.Para conseguirlo deberá cambiar su forma de ser y superar sus inhibiciones, lo que ocurrirá a lo largo de un rocambolesco viaje de trabajo a Luxora Beach, un pueblecito situado entre Georgia y Alabama, donde viven el excéntrico millonario Loomis y Gage y su curiosa familia.Barras y estrellas es una divertida novela y una aguda crítica a la sociedad norteamericana rebosante de acción e intriga.

In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of 'good books for all'. 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.

Logan Mountstuart's life in the book tumbles across almost every continent and decade of the 20th century. From a Uruguayan childhood and British schooling to a writerly - and wartime - career that bears him through Europe, Africa and America, it is a panoramic picaresque of a life. Casually bumping into a James Joyce over dinner, Picasso at a party or even the occasional crowned prince; it could have been tempting for the novel to slip into a roll-call of cultural icons - but it remains steadfastly loyal to the human and individual focus. Logan is not simply a guide to the century, he is a man with a growing voice and heart that reel you in. Ultimately, amid the chaos, conflicts and clutter of the century, it is his dreams, his joys and sadnesses that matter to the reader. Logan's assessments of the art or politics of his day may be revealing, but so are the facets of his personal life - from his choice of lover, to his choice of dinner. So too it is his fascination with writing, his career as novelist, critic, journalist and more, that sensitises us to Boyd's own prose, skilfully adjusting and maturing along with our hero. It may be a novel about writing - but it never loses track of the need to know what is being written about - the eloquence, absurdity and resonance of a human life.

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.

logan mounstuart (1906-1991) est un écrivain dont la vie fut, entre tornades sentimentales, aventures et péripéties, une véritable épopée. journaliste, il couvre la guerre d'espagne et rencontre hemingway. critique d'art, il se lie à picasso. galeriste, il croise jackson pollock. pendant la guerre, il sert dans les services de renseignements sous les ordres de ian fleming... on l'aura compris, logan mounstuart traverse le xxe siècle et, d'un continent à l'autre, en restitue les bouleversements intellectuels, politiques et sociaux. une fausse autobiographie ? un journal fictif ? plutôt un roman magnifique de vraisemblance où l'auteur prête sa voix à son héros avec une virtuosité de ventriloque et se plaît à mêler la réalité et l'invention, pour le plus grand plaisir du lecteur.

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 w

Una mañana de invierno, Lorimer Black, apuesto, elegante, discreto, acude a una cita de trabajo y encuentra a un hombre ahorcado. A partir de este presagio ominoso, todas sus certidumbres, tan concienzudamente labradas, comienzan a desvanecerse y el orden calculado por el que se regía se quiebra irremediablemente, desbaratando cualquier previsión. Una sátira y una reflexión sobre la importancia decisiva de las apariencias, un personaje exquisito que lidia en un mundo de malvados. Armadillo es una divertida, disparatada y entretenida novela sobre el absurdo de la vida en una gran metrópoli como Londres, donde acontecimientos sorprendentes pueden volver del revés hasta la existencia más aburrida.

Its 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 disaster-plagued movie. All are leading secret livesone is in the closet; another is an alcoholic; and the third is sleeping with her costarand as the shoot zigs and zags, these layers of secrets become increasingly more untenable. Pressures build inexorablyand thats before the FBI and CIA get involved. Someone is going to crackor maybe they all will. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Trio is an enthralling novel that asks the vital questions: What makes life worth living? And what do you do if you find it isnt?

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 from Paris to St. Petersburg, Brodie falls madly in love with the Russian soprano Lika Blum: beautiful, worldly, seductiveand forbidden. Though seemingly doomed from the start, Brodies passion for Lika only grows as their lives become increasingly more intertwined, more secretive, and, finally, more dangerous. A tale of dizzying passion and brutal revenge; of artistic endeavor and the illusions it can create; of the possibilities that life offers and the cruel speed with which they can be snatched away, Love Is Blind is a dazzling work of historical fiction that unfolds across fin de siecle Europe.