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William Boyd

WILLIAM BOYD  (1952 - )

 Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  


William Boyd is the author of eleven novels including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet and adapted into a Channel 4 drama; Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year, the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year and a Richard & Judy selection; Ordinary Thunderstorms and, most recently, the Sunday Times bestseller, Waiting for Sunrise. William Boyd lives in London and France.

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below is a list of William Boyd's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Dutch Girls         Good And Bad At Games         Longing         Six Parties

Dutch Girls

William Boyd
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Contained in "School Ties" published by Penguin Books    9780140084351

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Good And Bad At Games

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Contained in "School Ties" published by Penguin Books    9780140084351

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Longing

William Boyd
"All things pass is this your philosophy? Is there no room for love in your philosophy of life?" Renowned and best-selling novelist William Boyd, CBE, adapts two Chekhov short stories, A Visit to Friends and My Life, to weave a comic tale about nineteenth-century Russian provincial life, both familiar and unfamiliar. When Kolia is invited to visit his oldest friends on their Estate in the country he anticipates a pleasant break from Moscow life. But as the comedy of provincial life plays out around him, he finds himself adrift in a miasma of false expectations, missed opportunities, and unspoken passions.

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A play based on two short stories by Anton Chekhov

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Methuen Drama, London (2013)>>>    978-1472517456

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adaptation

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Six Parties

William Boyd
set in a nameless African country, among a group of affluent teenagers, it speaks with unfussy effectiveness about the emotional and social trials of edging into adulthood.

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performed by South Thames College, London

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New Connections

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in New Connections 2009, Faber and Faber, London and National Theatre   978-0571251353

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Play/Drama

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