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:

Publication Order of James Bond (Extended) Books

Colonel Sun (By: Kingsley Amis)	(1968)
License Renewed (By: John Gardner)	(1981)
For Special Services (By: John Gardner)	(1982)
Icebreaker (By: John Gardner)	(1983)
Role of Honor (By: John Gardner)	(1984)
Nobody Lives Forever (By: John Gardner)	(1986)
No Deals, Mr. Bond (By: John Gardner)	(1987)
Scorpius (By: John Gardner)	(1988)
Licence to Kill (By: John Gardner)	(1989)
Win, Lose or Die (By: John Gardner)	(1989)
Brokenclaw (By: John Gardner)	(1990)
The Man from Barbarossa (By: John Gardner)	(1991)
Death Is Forever (By: John Gardner)	(1992)
Never Send Flowers (By: John Gardner)	(1993)
SeaFire (By: John Gardner)	(1994)
GoldenEye (By: John Gardner)	(1995)
Cold Fall (By: John Gardner)	(1996)
Zero Minus Ten (By: Raymond Benson)	(1997)
Tomorrow Never Dies (By: Raymond Benson)	(1997)
The Facts of Death (By: Raymond Benson)	(1998)
The World is Not Enough (By: Raymond Benson)	(1999)
High Time to Kill (By: Raymond Benson)	(1999)
Doubleshot (By: Raymond Benson)	(2000)
Never Dream of Dying (By: Raymond Benson)	(2001)
The Man With the Red Tattoo (By: Raymond Benson)	(2002)
Die Another Day (By: Raymond Benson)	(2002)
Devil May Care (By: Sebastian Faulks)	(2008)
Carte Blanche (By: Jeffery Deaver)	(2011)
Solo	(2013)
Trigger Mortis (By: Anthony Horowitz)	(2015)
Forever and a Day (By: Anthony Horowitz)	(2018)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

A Good Man in Africa	(1981)
An Ice-Cream War	(1982)
Stars and Bars	(1984)
The New Confessions	(1987)
Brazzaville Beach	(1990)
The Blue Afternoon	(1993)
Transfigured Night	(1995)
Armadillo	(1998)
Nat Tate	(1998)
Any Human Heart	(2002)
Restless	(2006)
Ordinary Thunderstorms	(2009)
Waiting for Sunrise	(2012)
The Vanishing Game	(2014)
Sweet Caress	(2015)
The Argument	(2016)
Love is Blind	(2018)
Trio	(2021)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

On the Yankee Station	(1981)
School Ties	(1985)
The Dream Lover	(1995)
Killing Lizards	(1995)
The Destiny of Nathalie X	(1995)
Fascination	(2004)
The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth	(2017)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Bamboo

(2005)

Publication Order of Plays

Longing

(2013)

Publication Order of Park Stories Books

A Report To The Minister: Bushy Park (By: )	(2009)
Park Stories (With: Ali Smith,,,Adam Thorpe,Hanan Al-Shaykh,,Shena Mackay)	(2009)
By Force of Will, Alone: Greenwich Park (By: )	(2009)

Publication Order of Book Slam Books

(with Irvine Welsh, David Nicholls, , Patrick Ness, Jon Ronson, Hari Kunzru, Joe Dunthorne, , Helen Oyeyemi, , , , , , Jackie Kay, Chris Cleave, Nikesh Shukla, , Paul Murray)

One for the Trouble: Book Slam Volume 1 (With: Irvine Welsh,,Patrick Ness,Jon Ronson,Hari Kunzru,Joe Dunthorne,,Helen Oyeyemi,,,,Paul Murray)	(2011)
Too Much Too Young (By: David Nicholls,,Jackie Kay,Chris Cleave,Nikesh Shukla)	(2012)

Publication Order of Anthologies

The Minerva Book of Short Stories 3	(1991)
Ox-Tales: Water	(2009)
One for the Trouble: Book Slam Volume 1	(2011)
Ten Bedtime Poems	(2020)

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.