Restless

About the author

William Boyd was born in Ghana. He was brought up there and in Nigeria. He was educated at the universities of Nice, Glasgow and Oxford. He is married and lives in Chelsea, London.

He is the author of eight previous novels. A Good Man in Africa won the Whitbread Literary Award for the Best First Novel; An Ice-Cream War won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and The Blue Afternoon was the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction.

His most recent novel was Any Human Heart.

In addition, some thirteen of his screenplays (including the adaption of his novel Armadillo) have been filmed and in 1998 he both wrote and directed the feature film The Trench.