William Boyd
THE NEW CONFESSIONS
William Boyd’s first novel, A Good Man in
Africa, won a Whit-bread Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award;
his second, An Ice-Cream War, was awarded the John
Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker;
Brazzaville Beach won the James Tait Memorial Prize; and
The Blue Afternoon won the Los Angeles Times Prize for
Fiction. Boyd lives in London.
