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    William Boyd: Cold Sunset

    An evening with acclaimed author William Boyd celebrating the latest novel in his Sunday Times bestselling espionage series starring Gabriel Dax: travel writer, reluctant spy and accidental hero.

    The new stylish mystery takes us deep into a shadow-drenched world where loyalty blurs, motives darken and every step could be fatal.

    Enter Cold War Moscow and discover a place smouldering with secrets, as told by one of the UK’s most beloved novelists.

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    A Good Man in Africa

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    Escapee from suburbia, overweight, oversexed... Morgan Leafy isn't overburdened with worldly success. Actually, he is refreshingly free from it. But then, as a representative of Her Britannic Majesty in tropical Kinjanja, it was not very constructive of him to get involved in wholesale bribery.

    An Ice-cream War

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    Follows the fortunes of several wildly different characters - including an expat farmer and a young English aristocrat - as they are swept up in the fighting in German East Africa during the First World War, their lives converging amid battle, betrayal, love, comedy and tragedy.

    Any Human Heart

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    Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and betrayed in the war.

    Armadillo

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    Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression - does not understand why his world is being torn apart, though he does know that for the most part it is made up of bluster and hypocrisy. His business, trying to keep insurance companies from paying out the money they've promised.

    Brazzaville Beach

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    'I live on Brazzaville Beach... I am here because two sets of strange and extraordinary events happened to me... One in England, first, and then one in Africa.' On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there.

    Cold Sunset

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    Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth

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    Fascination

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    Featuring sixteen short fiction works, this collection moves from 19th century Russia to Second World War Los Angeles.

    Gabriel's Moon

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    Love is Blind

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    Ordinary Thunderstorms

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    One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a split-second decision, the young climatologist Adam Kindred loses everything - home, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, money - never to get them back. With the police and a hit man in merciless pursuit, Adam has no choice but to go underground.

    Restless

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    The major and stunning new novel about wartime espionage from bestselling author William Boyd

    Solo

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    It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Bond's renegade action leads him to Washington, D C, where he discovers a web of intrigue and witnesses fresh horrors.

    Stars and Bars

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    All Henderson Dores dreams of is fitting in. But America, land of the loony millionaire and the subway poet, and sharp-suited hood, of paralysing personal frankness and surreally fantasized facilities, is hard enough for an Englishman to fit in to. Henderson could never shed enough inhibitions to become just another weirdo. Or could he?

    The Blue Afternoon

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    Los Angeles 1936. Kay Fischer, a young, ambitious architect, is shadowed by Salvador Carriscant, an enigmatic stranger claiming to be her father. Within weeks of their first meeting, Kay will join him for an extraordinary journey into the old man's past, initially in search of a murderer, but finally in celebration of a glorious, undying love.

    The Dream Lover: Short Stories

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    A collection of twenty-four tales told in bold, distinct voices from Brazil to Africa and from Nice to Hollywood.

    The New Confessions: A rich exploration into one man's life from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart

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    John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth century. This book deals with his life and work.

    The Predicament

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    The Romantic

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    Trio

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    Waiting for Sunrise

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    A thrilling, plot-twisting new novel set in Europe during the first world war, from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms

    William Boyd

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