William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of 16 highly acclaimed, bestselling novels and five collections of stories. ANY HUMAN HEART was longlisted for the Booker Prize and adapted into a TV series. His books have won many literary awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, and the Costa Book Award. He was named a Granta Best Young Novelist in 1983, and in 2005, he was awarded the CBE. Boyd is married and divides his time between London and southwest France.

Books by William Boyd

Any Human Heart: The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart

by William Boyd - Fiction

Any Human Heart is a moving, ambitious and richly conceived novel that embodies the heroics and follies of twentieth-century life.