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A GOOD MAN IN AFRICA - WILLIAM BOYD TASCHENBUCH

William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra  Ghana and grew up there and in Nigeria. His first novel
A Good Man in Africa (1981)  won the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Somerset Maugham
Prize. His other novels include An Ice Cream War (1982  shortlisted for the 1982 Booker Prize
and winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize)  Stars and Bars (1984)  The New Confessions (1987)
Brazzaville Beach (1990  winner of the McVitie Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) 
The Blue Afternoon (1993  winner of the 1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award)  Armadillo
(1998)  Any Human Heart (2002  winner of the Prix Jean Monnet) and Restless (2006  winner of
the Costa Novel of the Year Award). His latest novel is Sweet Caress (2015). Some seventeen of
his screenplays have been filmed  including The Trench (1999)  which he also directed  and he
is also the author of four collections of short stories: On the Yankee Station (1981)  The
Destiny of Nathalie 'X' (1995)  Fascination (2004) and The Dream Lover (2008). He is married
and divides his time between London and South West France.

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