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Gabriel's Moon

The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd

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A rich exploration into one man’s life from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart

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The stories here are perfect . . . suffused with an understanding of love, desire and emotional incompetence

Perfectly formed snapshots of life at its most mystifying

Boyd achieves his best writing, observing tiny moments of love, lust and epiphany with extraordinary sensitivity

Sixteen brilliant short stories from one of today's most original storytellers. Wide-ranging in style and subject matter, the collection moves from 19th century Russia to Second World War Los Angeles to modern-day Eastbourne. First published in Penguin in 2005 to great acclaim, now reissued with a striking new cover image.

Fascination is master storyteller William Boyd's third volume of short stories 
 
Described as "the finest storyteller of his generation", and following his acclaimed collections On the Yankee Station and The Destiny of Nathalie X, in Fascination Boyd shows his brilliance of the form as these stories range widely through time and space. In a dazzling array of styles and narratives we move from 1930s Germany to Los Angeles in the Second World War, from contemporary Oxford to 19th century Russia. Whether in London or Amsterdam. Eastbourne or a Normandy village these stories explore and expose the fraught, funny, absurd, poignant and lovelorn lives of their many and varied characters. 
 
Fascination will be loved by fans of Any Human Heart, as well as readers of William Trevor, Sebastian Faulks, Nick Hornby and Hilary Mantel. 
 
'The stories here are perfect . . . suffused with an understanding of love, desire and emotional incompetence' Guardian 
 
'Perfectly formed snapshots of life at its most mystifying' Daily Mail 
 
'Consistently entertaining' Literary Review 
 
'Boyd achieves his best writing, observing tiny moments of love, lust and epiphany with extraordinary sensitivity' Spectator

William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of sixteen highly acclaimed, bestselling novels and five collections of stories. Any Human Heart was longlisted for the Booker Prize and adapted into a TV series with Channel 4. In 2005, Boyd was awarded the CBE. He is married and divides his time between London and south-west France.

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The stories here are perfect . . . suffused with an understanding of love, desire and emotional incompetence

Perfectly formed snapshots of life at its most mystifying

Consistently entertaining

Boyd achieves his best writing, observing tiny moments of love, lust and epiphany with extraordinary sensitivity

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