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:
Publication Order of James Bond (Extended) Books
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Plays
Publication Order of Park Stories Books
Publication Order of Book Slam Books
(with Irvine Welsh, David Nicholls, Simon Armitage, Patrick Ness, Jon Ronson, Hari Kunzru, Joe Dunthorne, Bernardine Evaristo, Helen Oyeyemi, , , , , , Jackie Kay, Chris Cleave, Nikesh Shukla, , Paul Murray)
Publication Order of Anthologies
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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William Boyd Synopsis: The Destiny of Nathalie ‘X’ presents William Boyd’s take on Hollywood and its grotesque inhabitants. It tells the story of African filmmaker Aurelien No and his attempt to remake his prize-winning student film.
