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Penguin audiobooks

4 total works

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Brazzaville Beach

by William Boyd

Published 10 September 1990
A story set in Africa and seen through the eyes of a young woman who is working on a field study of chimpanzees. The author also wrote A Good Man in Africa, An Ice-Cream War, Stars and Bars, The New Confessions and On the Yankee Station.

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A Good Man in Africa

by William Boyd

Published 29 January 1981

WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD
WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD

'Uproariously funny' Observer
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Overweight, oversexed and over there . . .

Morgan Leafy is hardly the most respectable of Her Majesty's representatives in the West African state of Kinjanja. For starters, he probably shouldn't have involved himself in wholesale bribery. Nor was it a good career move to go chasing after his boss's daughter; especially when his doctor banned him from horizontal pursuits.

But life is about to change for young Morgan Leafy. Every betrayal and humiliation he has suffered at the hands of petty persecutors is suddenly put into perspective. For Morgan has a dead body on his hands - and somehow, some way he's going to have to get rid of it . . .

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'If a widening grin is the test of a novel's entertainment value . . . A Good Man in Africa romps home' Guardian

'Wickedly funny' The Times

'A delight' Washington Post

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The Blue Afternoon

by William Boyd

Published 13 September 1993

Winner of the 1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award

Los Angeles 1936. Kay Fischer, a young, ambitious architect, is shadowed by Salvador Carriscant, an enigmatic stranger claiming to be her father. Within weeks of their first meeting, Kay will join him for an extraordinary journey into the old man's past, initially in search of a murderer, but finally in celebration of a glorious, undying love.

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An Ice-Cream War

by William Boyd

Published 13 September 1982
Set in the years 1914 to 1918, An Ice Cream War follows the fortunes of two English brothers who enlist and fight in German East Africa. Contrasting the vibrant chaos of East Africa with the quiet gentility of Edwardian England, the novel tracks the brothers' very different but equally tragic experiences in the war and the pressures and sorrows of those they leave at home.