William Boyd, one of Britain’s best-loved writers, visits Toppings this Autumn to talk about his new novel The Romantic, an intimate yet panoramic story set across the nineteenth century.
Boyd was born in 1952 in Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of sixteen highly acclaimed, bestselling novels and five collections of stories, including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Literary Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet; and Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year.