With apologies to William Boyd.I’ve enjoyed William Boyd’s books since I picked up The New Confessions not long after it was published in 1987. I think he’s just a brilliant storyteller, equally plausible as a female scientist in Brazzaville Beach and an unwitting fugitive in London. So I was chuffed to see him on the Aye […]
Books – how do you like yours and do you want mine?
As part of Saturday’s World Book Night events thousands of books were given away with the idea that they would be read, loved and passed on… again and again. I spent the evening at Glasgow’s sumptuous Mitchell Library where as part of the Aye Write festival Sarah Waters was talking about her book Fingersmith, which […]