Nat Tate

William Boyd has probably written more classic books than any of his contemporaries

William Boyd has probably written more classic books than any of his contemporaries

A finely judged performance: a deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction , of literary myth and imagination

One of Britain's most celebrated contemporary novelists

William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of sixteen highly acclaimed, bestselling novels and five collections of stories. Any Human Heart was longlisted for the Booker Prize and adapted into a TV series with Channel 4. In 2005, Boyd was awarded the CBE. He is married and divides his time between London and south-west France.