Author of the Month: William Boyd

 In September we celebrate the Scottish novelist and screenwriter William Boyd.

 Cover of William Boyd's Gabrielle's Moon

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A wonderfully intricate novel of espionage and elegant skulduggery, richly imagined, meticulously researched and unflaggingly readable - John Banville
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