William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria.
He is the author of sixteen highly acclaimed, bestselling novels and five collections of stories. Any Human Heart was longlisted for the Booker Prize and adapted into a TV series with Channel 4. In 2005, Boyd was awarded the CBE.
Over a glittering forty year career, William Boyd has sold over 2 million books through TCM, winning countless awards in the process. In his most thrilling novel yet, the first in a series, Britain’s greatest storyteller transports you to the vibrant streets of sixties London, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsession. Gabriel’s Moon was published in September 2024 and his new novel, The Predicament, will be released on 4th September 2025.
He is married and divides his time between London and south-west France.