Any Human Heart

William Boyd

Dec 2007 · Sold by Vintage

About this ebook

William Boyd’s masterful new novel tells, in a series of intimate journals, the story of Logan Mountstuart—writer, lover, art dealer, spy—as he makes his often precarious way through the twentieth century.

Ratings and reviews

My first and still favorite Boyd book. The main character manages to be in all the right places at all the right times during many of the critical junctures of the 20th Century. Along the way he gets to meet Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and Evelyn Waugh (and a host of others). Unfortunately he never quite seems to get famous despite his "good" fortune. The reader, however, gets a fantastic ride in the process.

Somewhere between Gatsby and Garp, Logan charms his way through life and I found myself drawn into his world.

About the author

William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana, and attended University in Nice, Glasgow, and Oxford. He is the author of seven novels and eleven screenplays, and has been the recipient of 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 lives with his wife in London and southwest France.