Any Human Heart
Author Biography
William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana, in March 1952. His first novel, A Good Man in Africa, was published while he was a lecturer in English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and won the Whitbread First Novel Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. His other novels include An Ice-Cream War, winner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shorlisted for the Booker Prize, Brazzaville Beach, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the McVitie’s Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year, and The Blue Afternoon, which won the Sunday Express Book of the Year award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His latest book is Restless is the winner of the 2006 Costa Novel Award. He was awarded a CBE in 2005.
