Restless Trade paperback - 2007

“Boyd has written a crackling spy thriller, but more than that, he has evoked the atmosphere of wartime espionage: the clubby, grubby moral accommodations, the paranoia, the tense sexuality.”
–The New York Times

“Restless is hard to put down. It’s entertaining, thought-provoking and educational.”
–Edmonton Journal

“William Boyd has cleverly drawn from a rather obscure bit of espionage lore to craft a tale about how unknowable we really are to one another–even to those with whom we are seemingly most intimate.”
–The Gazette (Montreal)

“Restless is a brilliant story that sends the reader caroming between the 1940s . . . and the 1970s. . . . The book’s accurate history, intricate plot, complex characters and occasionally elegant diction make Restless not only a story with appeal for both sexes but also a potentially cinematic one.”
–The Vancouver Sun

“A clever and touching dance through the ghostly, illusion-strewn world of invented identities.”
–National Post


Praise for William Boyd:

“There’s hardly a writer around whose work offers more pleasure and satisfaction.”
–The Washington Post

“A gutsy writer . . . William Boyd is good company to keep.”
–Time

“Mr. Boyd seems singularly blessed with both an innate love of storytelling and the talent to render those stories in swift, confident prose.”
–Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“A remarkably elastic, eclectic work. . . . Boyd has never been afraid to stretch himself, either thematically or stylistically.”
–The Globe and Mail

“One of the most skilful and appealing writers at work today.”
–The Atlantic Monthly

“Boyd has an exceptional ability to tell a really compelling story, in dense imaginative detail, about characters with complex, and convincing, emotional lives.”
–Los Angeles Times Book Review

William Boyd is the author of eight novels, including A Good Man in Africa, An Ice Cream War and Any Human Heart. Born in Ghana, Africa in 1952, Boyd often sets his novels in far-off exotic locations in the tradition of Graham Greene. From Manila to the deep American South, Boyd's novels traverse time and place exploring the human condition. A former Oxford lecturer in English literature, Boyd's writing bares the hallmark of meticulous historical research. His works have received several awards, including the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. Boyd has also penned thirteen screenplays that have been turned into film. William Boyd currently lives with his wife Susan in London and southwest France.