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Monday 23 May
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Novelist, memoirist, screenwriter, trickster – William Boyd has made a career out of blurring fiction and reality.
In his vast body of work, including 17 works of fiction, the English writer has darted in and out of real and imagined worlds. In 1998, he wrote a hoax biography of a fictional modern artist that fooled many in the art world. His 2002 novel, Any Human Heart, saw his protagonist feuding with Virginia Woolf, kissing Evelyn Waugh and being recruited into naval intelligence by James Bond author Ian Fleming. In a life-imitating-art twist ten years later, Boyd was commissioned to jump into the shoes of the late Fleming and write a new novel in the Bond series himself.
His latest novel, Sweet Caress, incorporates real and found anonymous photographs. The novel, with a female war photographer protagonist, blends reportage, history and fiction to riveting effect.
Join Boyd as he talks fiction, photography and the art of the hoax with Toni Jordan.
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William Boyd
William Boyd is the author of fourteen novels including A Good Man in Africa, An Ice-Cream War, Any Human Heart, Restless, Waiting for Sunrise, and Solo, a James Bond novel. Boyd lives in London and France.
Toni Jordan
Toni Jordan is the author of six novels including the international best-seller Addition, Nine Days, which was awarded Best Fiction at the 2012 Indie Awards, and Our Tiny, Useless Hearts (2016), which was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and for the Voss Literary Award. Toni holds a bachelor of science and a PhD in creative arts. Her most recent novel is Dinner with the Schnabels (2022).
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