Order of William Boyd Books
William Boyd is a Ghanaian-born British author of novels and screenplays. He grew up there, and then went to university in Nice, Glasgow and Oxford. He has won many awards including the Whitbread First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award. His novel An Ice-Cream War was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2005, he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire. William is married and splits his time between London, England and France.
William Boyd became a published novelist in 1981 with the novel A Good Man in Africa, which he followed up with a short story collection entitled On the Yankee Station and Other Stories that same year. Below is a list of William Boyd’s books in order of when they were originally published:
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Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| A Good Man in Africa | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| An Ice-Cream War | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Stars and Bars | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The New Confessions | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Brazzaville Beach | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Blue Afternoon | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Transfigured Night | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Armadillo | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Nat Tate | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Any Human Heart | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Restless | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ordinary Thunderstorms | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Waiting for Sunrise | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Vanishing Game | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sweet Caress | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Argument | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Love is Blind | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Trio | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Romantic | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| On the Yankee Station | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| School Ties | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dream Lover | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Killing Lizards | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Destiny of Nathalie X | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fascination | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Bamboo | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Plays
| Longing | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of James Bond (Extended) Books
Publication Order of Park Stories Books
| A Report To The Minister: Bushy Park | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Park Stories | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| By Force of Will, Alone: Greenwich Park | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Direct Hit: Hyde Park | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Beauty Parlour for Swans: Kensington Gardens | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| The Minerva Book of Short Stories 3 | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fanfare: Fourteen Stories on a Musical Theme | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Great Modern Stories | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ox-Tales: Water | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Just When Stories | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| One for the Trouble: Book Slam Volume 1 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ten Bedtime Poems | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Note: Ox-Tales: Water is an anthology that also contains stories by Michel Faber, Giles Foden, Esther Freud, Zoe Heller, Heri Kunzu, Michael Morpurgo, David Park and Vikram Seth.
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