The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd
  • Published: 6 February 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241987339
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $30.00

The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd

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Acclaimed author Alistair Owen interviews one of the best loved writers of modern times about his life and work

In this probing series of exclusive interviews, Alistair Owen talks to William Boyd about his works and the life which has inspired them.

The conversations which emerge are a deep-dive into film, art, theatre, literature and the life of a writer. This is one of Britain's most beloved authors on what it is to write in a variety of forms.
  • Published: 6 February 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241987339
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $30.00
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William Boyd

William Boyd is the author of one work of non-fiction, three collections of short stories and thirteen novels, including the bestselling historical spy thriller Restless – winner of the Costa Novel of the Year – and Any Human Heart, in which the character of Ian Fleming features. Among his other awards are the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Jean Monnet. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2005, he was awarded the CBE.

Born in Ghana in 1952, William Boyd spent much of his early life in West Africa. He now divides his time between the south-west of France and Chelsea, where he lives a stone’s throw from James Bond’s London address.

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Praise for The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd

William Boyd has probably written more classic books than any of his contemporaries

Daily Telegraph

Boyd is back on a form few of his contemporaries can match. This fine, touching and clever book is the best thing he's written since [Any Human Heart] and deserves similar adulation

Observer on Love Is Blind

Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent

Sunday Times

Arguably one of Britain's finest living writers

Sunday Express

A finely judged performance: a deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination

Guardian on Love Is Blind

One of Britain's most celebrated contemporary novelists

Sunday Times