The novelist, who wrote Jame Bond novel Solo, moved to Nigeria with his family in 1964, three years before the Biafran War ...

While some James Bond fans worry about the franchise's future under Amazon, others are cautiously optimistic. After all, at ...

William Boyd is the author of eighteen novels, five short story collections and numerous screenplays. His first published novel, A Good Man in Africa, was inspired by his childhood in West Africa. He ...

Show more A sparkling new literary whodunnit for Radio 4 from the acclaimed author William Boyd, set on the Isle of Jura. When Orwell obsessive Bethany Mellmoth finds herself in possession of a ...

While Boyd only wrote one Bond book, his take, Solo, is memorable since it finds Bond grappling with the changing politics of the late '60s. It also puts 007 in West Africa, a part of the world ...

William Boyd was born in Ghana in 1952 and moved to Nigeria with his family in 1964 (Philip Toscano/PA) Author William Boyd has recalled how his work was shaped by an experience during the ...