Chelsea resident William Boyd splits his time with the sunny ... Not so: his warm-hearted, mostly-Manila-set novel The Blue Afternoon captures the Filipino capital masterfully despite Boyd never ...

Forty years ago this month, William Boyd’s first novel ... book about a British art appraiser in America, “The Blue Afternoon” was set in the 1930s. He was even hired to write a James ...

William Boyd’s new book, Waiting for Sunrise ... of his obsessions and enthusiasms over the years: surgery in The Blue Afternoon, primatology in Brazzaville Beach. His books bear the stamp ...

Partly based on William Gerhardie - the ... that had female reviewers convinced that Boyd had psychic powers to see across gender divides) to The Blue Afternoon (architecture and everlasting ...

William Boyd is not slowing down ... And even in Boyd’s shorter novels — take Armadillo (1998) or The Blue Afternoon (1993) — he’s always interested in the aspects of a life we don ...