Beginning with his first novel, “A Good Man in Africa,” William Boyd has built a reputation over the course of more than four decades as a purveyor of reliably literate, enjoyable commercial fiction, ...

This is the kind of novel that William Boyd does best, the tale of an Everyman caught in the waves of history, sometimes surviving by his wits, other times sinking by his shortcomings. This eponymous ...

William Boyd’s latest excursion into fictional biography, aptly entitled The Romantic, is the fourth of the “whole-life” novels he has made his speciality, following The New Confessions (1987), Any ...