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When he is hired as the personal piano tuner for a brilliant pianist, Brodie Moncur suddenly finds himself swept up into a life of luxury that he could never have imagined. But while accompanying his new employer on tours from Paris to St. Petersburg, Brodie falls madly in love with the Russian soprano Lika Blum: beautiful, worldly, seductiveand forbidden. Though seemingly doomed from the start, Brodies passion for Lika only grows as their lives become increasingly more intertwined, more secretive, and, finally, more dangerous. A tale of dizzying passion and brutal revenge; of artistic endeavor and the illusions it can create; of the possibilities that life offers and the cruel speed with which they can be snatched away, Love Is Blind is a dazzling work of historical fiction that unfolds across fin de siecle Europe.

'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. Sifting the details for evidence of her own innocence or guilt, she tells her engrossing story with a blunt and beguiling honesty that not only intrigues and disturbs but is also completely enthralling.

Escapee from suburbia, overweight, oversexed ...Morgan Leafy isn't overburdened with worldly success. Actually, he is refreshingly free from it. But then, as a representative of Her Britannic Majesty in tropical Kinjanja, it was not very constructive of him to get involved in wholesale bribery. Nor was it exactly oiling his way up the ladder to hunt down the improbably pointed breasts of his boss' daughter when officially banned from horizontal delights by a nasty dose ...Falling back on his deep-laid reserves of misanthropy and guile, Morgan has to fight off the sea of humiliation, betrayal and ju-ju that threatens to wash over him.

Fuyant l’Irlande, où il est né en 1799, Cashel Greville Ross s’enrôle dans l’armée. Ainsi débute un parcours tumultueux, semé d’épisodes glorieux et de revers de fortune, dans les pas de l’Histoire.

En una playa tranquila de África Occidental, una mujer rememora los dramáticos sucesos que la llevaron allí. En sus pensamientos se mezclan recuerdos de su matrimonio con un matemático obsesionado por aplicar a los seres humanos la teoria de los juegos, con las experiencias vividas como etologa en un centro de investigacion sobre la conducta de los chimpances.En Playa de Brazzaville, William Boyd explora con una maestria acreditada a lo largo e cuatro novelas -rapidamente convertidas en otros tantos exitos de publico y critica- la disonancia y el contrate entre los diversos elementos que conforman el universo de la protagonista: el intelecto refinado contra la brutalidad de los hechos, las trampas del amor frente a la fuerza de los instintos, la metropoli civilizada frente a la sensualidad de Africa.

Its summer 1968, and the world is reeling from war and assassinations, protests and riots. In a sunny British seaside town, a producer, a novelist, and an actress are enduring their own more private crises on the set of a disaster-plagued movie. All are leading secret livesone is in the closet; another is an alcoholic; and the third is sleeping with her costarand as the shoot zigs and zags, these layers of secrets become increasingly more untenable. Pressures build inexorablyand thats before the FBI and CIA get involved. Someone is going to crackor maybe they all will. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Trio is an enthralling novel that asks the vital questions: What makes life worth living? And what do you do if you find it isnt?

Un viejo director de cine, John James Todd, parte, como un cazador solitario, tras su úlitma pieza: su propia armonía con un universo regido por la incertidumbre. Así, a caballo de una obsesión -Jean Jacques Rousseau, el revolucionario pensador frances- nos conduce por los callejones y avenidas de nuestra historia mas cercana: el nacimiento del cine, la Gran Guerra, la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la caza de brujas... el eterno juego del olvido. Se trata, en suma, de correr al acecho y captura del propio ser, de una vida que atraviesa con pasion los primeros setenta años de nuestro siglo. Con Las nuevas confesiones, William Boyd -el celebrado autor de Barras y estrellas, Un buen hombre en Africa y Como nieve al sol- consigue su obra maestra, una novela que se lee sin descanso y que confirma a su autor como un narrador mordaz, ambicioso e inteligente, como un excepcional dominador de la ironia que sabe convertir la Historia en una gigantesca ficcion.

Love is Blind is William Boyd's sweeping, heart-stopping new novel. Set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life. When Brodie is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father, and begin a wildly different new chapter in his life. In Paris, a fateful encounter with a famous pianist irrevocably changes his future - and sparks an obsessive love affair with a beautiful Russian soprano, Lika Blum. Moving from Paris to St Petersburg to Edinburgh and back again, Brodie's love for Lika and its dangerous consequences pursue him around Europe and beyond, during an era of overwhelming change as the nineteenth century becomes the twentieth. Love is Blind is a tale of dizzying passion and brutal revenge; of artistic endeavour and the illusions it creates; of all the possibilities that life can offer, and how cruelly they can be snatched away. At once an intimate portrait of one man's life and an expansive exploration of the beginning of the twentieth century, Love is Blind is a masterly new novel from one of Britain's best loved storytellers.

A producer. A novelist. An actress.It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. There are riots in Paris and the Vietnam War is out of control. While the world is reeling our three characters are involved in making a Swingin'''' Sixties movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. Elfrida is drowning her writer''''s block in vodka; Talbot, coping with the daily dysfunction of making a film, is hiding something in a secret apartment; and the glamorous Anny is wondering why the CIA is suddenly so interested in her.But the show must go on and, as it does, the trio''''s private worlds begin to take over their public ones. Pressures build inexorably - someone''''s going to crack. Or maybe they all will.From one of Britain''''s best loved writers comes an exhilarating, tender novel that asks the vital questions: what makes life worth living? And what do you do if you find it isn''''t?

Featuring sixteen short fiction works, this collection moves from 19th century Russia to Second World War Los Angeles.

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.

A spell at boarding school ends abruptly and Amory begins an apprenticeship with Greville in London, living in his tiny flat in Kensington, earning two pounds a week photographing socialites for the magazine Beau Monde. But Amory is hungry for more and her search for life, love and artistic expression will take her to the demi monde of Berlin of the late 20s, to New York of the 30s, to the Blackshirt riots in London and to France in the Second World War where she becomes one of the first women war photographers. Her desire for experience will lead Amory to further wars, to lovers, husbands and children as she continues to pursue her dreams and battle her demons. In this enthralling story

A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only passionate kisses as a substitute. A man recounts his personal history through the things he has stolen from others throughout his life. A couple chart the journey of their five year relationship backwards, from awkward reunion to lovelorn first encounter. And, at the heart of the book, a 24-year old young woman, Bethany Mellmoth, embarks on a year-long journey of wishful and tentative self-discovery. The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth depicts the random encounters that bring the past bubbling to the surface; the impulsive decisions that irrevocably shape a life; and the endless hesitations and loss-of-nerve that wickedly complicate it. These funny, surprising and moving stories are a resounding confirmation of Boyd's powers as one of our most original and compelling storytellers.