William Boyd is the author of one work of non-fiction, three collections of short stories and thirteen novels, including the bestselling historical spy thriller Restless - winner of the Costa Novel of the Year - and Any Human Heart, in which the character of Ian Fleming features. Among his other awards are the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Jean Monnet. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l?Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2005, he was awarded the CBE. Born in Ghana in 1952, William Boyd spent much of his early life in West Africa. He now divides his time between the south-west of France and Chelsea, where he lives a stone?s throw from James Bond?s London address.
William Boyd is arguably one of Britain's finest living writers * Sunday Express * Boyd is a brilliant novelist * Observer * He has probably written more classic books than any of his contemporaries * Daily Telegraph * The book begins and continues at a cracking pace - or perhaps a cinematic stride - with scenes, scenarios, set-pieces and minor characters aplenty, all of which and all of whom might easily detain another writer for an entire book . . . He makes it look easy: he's a pro * New Statesman * A finely judged performance: a deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination -- Book of the Week * Guardian * Boyd's talents as a rollicking storytelling [are] full on display in this historical blockbuster -- Claire Allfree * Metro * Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent -- David Mills * Sunday Times * Boyd is back on a form few of his contemporaries can match. This fine, touching and clever book is the best thing he's written since [Any Human Heart] and deserves similar adulation * Obsever *