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Verano de 1913. El joven actor Lysander Rief, animado por las noticias que llegan a Londres sobre los exitos del psicoanálisis, se desplaza a Viena para tratarse un problema sexual. Allí acude a la consulta del doctor Bensimon, discipulo de Freud, donde irrumpe una mujer por la que se siente atraido: la misteriosa Hettie Bull. La ciudad bulle, la cerveza corre y los vieneses llenan las terrazas y parques, una vida sugerente que cautiva al elegante Lysander quien, embarcado en una apasionada relacion con Hettie, parece haber encontrado la cura a su dolencia. De regreso a Londres y con la guerra inminente, sus vivencias en Viena lo persiguen e involucran en un escenario inesperado de espionaje, escandalos y sexo. Entre Viena y el West End londinense, con paradas en Paris, Ginebra y Trieste, Esperando el alba es una aventura poblada de intrigas, hermosas damas y heridas que no cicatrizan, todo un tour de force literario donde al alba tal vez se difuminen las sombras e incertidumbres de la noche.

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

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. Vienna. 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist, Dr. Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the nature of his problem when an extraordinary woman enters. She is clearly in distress, but Lysander is immediately drawn to her strange, hazel eyes and her unusual, intense beauty. Later the same day they meet again, and a more composed Hettie Bull introduces herself as an artist and sculptor, and invites Lysander to a party hosted by her lover, the famous painter Udo Hoff. Compelled to attend and unable to resist her electric charm, they begin a passionate love affair. Life in Vienna becomes tinged with the frisson of excitement for Lysander. He meets Sigmund Freud in a cafe, begins to write a journal, enjoys secret trysts with Hettie and appears to have been cured... London, 1914. War is stirring, and events in Vienna have caught up with Lysander. Unable to live an ordinary life, he is plunged into the dangerous theatre of wartime intelligence - a world of sex, scandal and spies, where lines of truth and deception blur with every waking day. Lysander must now discover the key to a secret code which is threatening Britain''s safety, and use all his skills to keep the murky world of suspicion and betrayal from invading every corner of his life. Moving from Vienna to London''s west end, the battlefields of France and hotel rooms in Geneva, Waiting for Sunrise is a feverish and mesmerising journey into the human psyche, a beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe, and a literary tour de force from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms.

Through the intimate journals of Logan Mounstuart we travel from Uruguay to Oxford, on to Paris, the Bahamas, New York and West Africa, and meet his three wives, his family, his friends and colleague

Es una divertida, disparatada y entretenida novela sobre el absurdo de la vida en una gran metrópoli como Londres, donde acontecimientos sorprendentes pueden volver del revés hasta la existencia más

Granta 100 will be edited by William Boyd and will include pieces by: Martin Amis Julian Barnes Bill Buford AM Homes Ian Jack Mario Vargas Llosa Nicholas Shakespeare Ian McEwan Doris Lessing Helen Simpson Jayne Anne Phillips About William Boyd (editor) William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra in Ghana. His novels include The Armadillo, Blue Afternoon, An Ice-cream War. His most recent publication was Restless (published by Bloomsbury). He was one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 1983. He has also published a short-story collection, Fascination.

Amory Clay''s first memory is of her father doing a handstand but it is his absences that she chiefly remembers.Her Uncle Greville, a photographer, gives her both the affection she needs and a camera, which unleashes a passion that irrevocably shapes her future. She begins an apprenticeship with him in London, photographing socialites for magazines. But Amory is hungry for more and her search for life, love and artistic expression will take her to the demi-monde of 1920s Berlin, New York in the 1930s, the Blackshirt riots in London, and France during the Second World War, where she becomes one of the first women war photographers.In this enthralling story of a life fully lived, William Boyd has created a sweeping panorama of the twentieth century, told through the camera lens of one unforgettable woman.

Au lendemain de la Premiere Guerre mondiale, la tres jeune Amory Clay se voit offrir par son oncle Greville un appareil photo et quelques conseils rudimentaires pour sen servir. Elle ignore alors que cest le declencheur dune passion qui façonnera irrevocablement sa vie future.Un bref apprentissage dans un studio et des portraits de la bonne societe laissent Amory sur sa faim. Sa quete de vie, damour et dexpression artistique lemporte bientot dans un parcours audacieux et trepidant, du Berlin interlope des annees vingt au New York des annees trente, de Londres secoue par les emeutes des Chemises noires a la France occupee et au theatre des operations militaires, ou elle devient lune des premieres femmes photoreporters de guerre.Sa soif dexperiences entraine Amory vers dautres conflits, des amants, un mari, des enfants, tandis quelle continue a poursuivre ses reves, a combattre ses demons.A travers le destin singulier et lobjectif temeraire dune femme independante et genereuse, William Boyd nous promene au gre des evenements les plus marquants de lhistoire contemporaine.Une ode magnifique a la liberte des femmes !

À peine a-t-il soufflé les bougies de son quarante-cinquième anniversaire que l''agent 00 le plus efficace de Sa Majesté se voit confier une mission d''un genre très particulier : faire d''un général

William Boyd's An Ice-Cream War was published in 1982, an auspicious debut by a young writer who would go on to be recognized as 'the finest storyteller of his generation' (Sebastain Faulks). It 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.

El joven climatólogo Adam Kindred le hace un favor a un desconocido y su vida entra en una espiral de descontrol y peligro. Se convierte en un fugitivo de la justicia, la presa de un asesino a sueldo y la víctima ignorante de un maléfico complot farmacéutico. Adam, desprovisto de pasaporte, dinero, teléfono móvil, tarjetas de crédito se encuentra en una situación de aislamiento, desamparo e indefensión tratando de sobrevivir en una gran urbe como Londres.

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.

One May evening in Chelsea, London, a freakish series of malign accidents and a split-second decision turns Adam Kindred's life upside down for ever. The police are searching for him. There is a reward for his capture. He is alone and anonymous in the huge, pitiless modern city. Adam has nowhere to go but down - underground. A thrilling, plot-twisting novel from the author of bestseller RESTLESS.