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Há 10 horas · Gabriel’s Moon – William Boyd. Gabriel’s Moon, the 19th novel from William Boyd, is an espionage story served with all the trimmings: a haunted hero, shady government agencies, deception, country-hopping, heavy drinking, chain-smoking, the Cold War, paranoia, and a femme fatale. It’s safe to say the wheel is not being reinvented here ...
Há 5 dias · The Lumumba affair is at the heart of William Boyd’s eighteenth novel, Gabriel’s Moon. Thirty-year-old travel writer Gabriel Dax is on assignment in the Congo when Lumumba asks to be interviewed. What Gabriel gets, however, is not so much an interview as a paranoid rant: ‘President Eisenhower wants me dead …. There are people here sent ...
Há 10 horas · Gabriel’s Moon, Boyd’s 18th novel, skilfully performs double duty: working as a satisfying standalone story and setting Gabriel up for further escapades. The book is a vivid re-creation of the early 1960s, and one of the pleasures it offers is a feeling of agreeable time travel to fascinating corners of a vanished world.
Há 6 dias · Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd, review: A gripping, must-read spy thriller The 72-year-old British author just keeps knocking out terrific new novels. By Nick Duerden.
Há 2 dias · I am never quite sure exactly what I make of William Boyd. The work of his for which I can happily express great admiration is the curious Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928-1960, a toothsome hoax ...
Há 10 horas · GABRIEL’S MOON. 272pp. Viking. £20. We begin in 1936, with a candle inside a glass “moon-globe”, which Gabriel Dax’s mother lights. It is a ritual important to a fatherless child, “signifying order and calm”. Soon after, the mother, a keen smoker, is found dead by Gabriel on the carpet downstairs. The family home is, meanwhile ...
Há 1 dia · In his most exhilarating novel yet, William Boyd transports you from the vibrant streets of sixties London to the sun-soaked cobbles of Cadiz and the frosty squares of Warsaw in this thrilling adventure. ‘Engaging, intelligent and deeply satisfying. I rate him one of our greatest living novelists’ PETER JAMES