William Boyd’s Book Picks

  1. 1

    Peasants, and other stories

    Антон Павлович Чехов · 1956

  2. 2

    Pale Fire

    Vladimir Nabokov · 1945

  3. 3

    A far cry from Kensington

    Muriel Spark · 1988

  4. 4

    Our Mutual Friend

    Charles Dickens · 1865

  5. 5

    Poems

    Elizabeth Bishop · 2011

  6. 6

    Scoop

    Evelyn Waugh · 1933

  7. 7

    Couples

    John Updike · 1968

  8. 8

    The life of Henry Brulard

    Stendhal · 1913

  9. 9

    The bottle factory outing

    Bainbridge, Beryl · 1974