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William Boyd

May 2024

  • Geri Halliwell-Horner in white dress turns and smiles with photographers in background.

    Geri Halliwell-Horner reveals writing advice she was given by top authors

    Ex-Spice Girl tells Hay festival about tips from William Boyd and Jacqueline Wilson for children’s book

October 2023

  • William Boyd in a blue shirt standing in front of a bookcase in his London home.

    The Mirror and the Road: Conversations With William Boyd by Alistair Owen – review

    A superfan’s series of interviews with the author veers perilously close to hagiography but its mix of enthusiasm and encyclopedic knowledge proves unexpectedly illuminating

April 2023

  • Paul Daley

    Unable to read, I listened – and found out what an imperfect reader I am

    Paul Daley
    Whole episodes I’d forgotten were revealed to me. The main character became a whole new person

November 2022

  • Pisa street scene looking towards the Duomo

    The Romantic by William Boyd review – a swashbuckling adventure

    Boyd’s absorbing ‘whole-life’ novel transports its 19th-century hero around the globe for encounters with real-life figures and endless incident

October 2022

  • Pisa

    Book of the day
    The Romantic by William Boyd review – a fine ‘whole life’ novel

  • Actor Lydia West.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography

September 2022

  • Observer Books<br>Author William Boyd- new book called The Romantic published by Penguin. Photographed at home in London.

    Books interview
    William Boyd: ‘The books world is much tougher now’

    The author on his latest ‘whole-life’ novel, the brutal realities of modern publishing and the inspirational influence of Catch-22

August 2022

  • L-r: Robert Harris, Maggie O’Farrell, Ian McEwan, Kamila Shamsie, William Boyd, Kate Atkinson, Cormac McCarthy.

    Seven big-hitter books for autumn 2022, from Maggie O’Farrell to Cormac McCarthy

    It’s going to be a vintage autumn for fiction, with new novels from some of our finest writers. Here’s our essential guide

February 2022

  • The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett; Run and Hide by Pankaj Mishra; Dance Move by Wendy Erskine.

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they’ve enjoyed in February

    David Baddiel, Houman Barekat and Guardian readers Rosa Jones and Elizabeth Best discuss the titles they’ve read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

October 2021

  • ‘The twists and turns are riveting’: Stephen King, Paula Hawkins and others on their favourite le Carré

    The master of espionage wrote 26 novels – top authors share the books they love the most

September 2021

  • monthlyPaperbacks-september-trail

    This month's best paperbacks
    This month’s best paperbacks: Susanna Clarke, Claudia Rankine, a biography of Tom Stoppard and more

    Not sure what to read this month? Here are some fantastic new paperbacks, including a study of why we shake hands, a new William Boyd and James Rebanks’s illuminating thoughts on farming

May 2021

  • Philip Roth in the offices of his publisher in New York in 2008.

    The reputation game: how authors try to control their image from beyond the grave

    The row over a new biography of Philip Roth has exposed the way agents and estates restrict access and manage archives to maintain a writer’s posthumous good name

November 2020

  • Leading man: film director Christopher Nolan.

    In brief: The Nolan Variations; Paris By Starlight; Nat Tate – review

    Tom Shone’s fascinating study of film director Christopher Nolan

October 2020

  • The Lanes in Brighton in 1968

    Trio by William Boyd review – superbly wry and wise

    Set on a Brighton film set in 1968, this showbiz story is intricate and funny – but should William Boyd be taking more risks?
  • William Boyd: ‘brilliantly drawn, often grotesque characters’

    Book of the day
    Trio by William Boyd review – lights, camera, chaos

    The secret lives of three characters on a 1960s film set make for the novelist’s funniest book in years
  • Battle lines … Demonstrators swarm a statue in Grant Park, Chicago, during the 1968 Democratic national convention

    1968: the year that set the world on fire

    Struggles for black justice, clashes between police and protestors, a Republican president running on a law and order ticket... a look at an extraordinary year that echoes in 2020

November 2019

  • A 2018 protest against antisemitism outside the Labour party HQ.

    Labour antisemitism row: public figures say they cannot vote for party under Corbyn

    John Le Carré, Joanna Lumley and Tom Holland among signatories to letter condemning party’s stance

September 2019

  • a scene from the 2017 Broadway adaptation of Nineteen-Eighty Four.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about fake news

    Mendacious propaganda has a long history, in fiction from George Orwell to Philip Roth – and real-life reports by authors including Roald Dahl

August 2019

  • Simon Harrison and Alice Orr-Ewing in The Argument.

    The Argument review – no winners emerge from William Boyd's couple at war

    A whole set of relationships unravel in a shrewdly observant play showing the ripple effect of marital hostilities

October 2018

  • Whole-life Wessex epic … Kate Winslet and Christopher Eccleston in the Jude, adapted from Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure.

    The whole story: William Boyd on why we love novels that span a lifetime

    From Jude the Obscure to Wolf Hall - and his own New Confessions – the author reveals the challenges and rewards of writing books that take on an entire existence
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