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- - - Before I say what I have to say about William Boyds new novel, "Trio," let me first suggest that it might be great fun for readers keen to flee todays soul-crushing social and political turmoil for the seemingly more innocent — and, in this case, madcap — cultural ferment of the late 1960s, in the faraway, louche land of Brighton ("the Las Vegas of England," as one of the books characters observes). There, everyones a writer or director, an actor or photographer, or a bit of each, and...

February 19, 2021 Ellen Akins THE WASHINGTON POST – Before I say what I have to say about William Boyd’s new novel, Trio, let me first suggest that it might be great fun for readers keen to flee today’s soul-crushing social and political turmoil for the seemingly more innocent – and in this case madcap – cultural ferment of the late 1960s, in the faraway, louche land of Brighton (“the Las Vegas of England”, as one of the book’s characters observes). There, everyone’s a writer...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Book World: William Boyds Trio is a rollicking escape from todays soul-crushing social and political turmoil Ellen Akins, The Washington Post Jan. 26, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail - - - Before I say what I have to say about William Boyds new novel, "Trio," let me first suggest that it might be great fun for readers keen to flee todays soul-crushing social and political turmoil for the seemingly more innocent - and in this case madcap - cultural ferment of th...

William Boyd’s Madcap Burlesque Revisits the Summer of 1968 Credit...Amélie Fontaine By James Lasdun By William Boyd It would be hard to think of a living novelist whose books encompass more history, more settings, more professions, more varieties of individual fate, than William Boyd — at least with anything like his assurance. Spies, photographers, climatologists, psychiatrists — in colonial Africa, prewar Vienna, the American South: You name it, and there is almost certainl...

William Boyds Trio: London film setting, swinging 60s, sex and drugs 19 Dec, 2020 09:00 PM 3 minutes to read British writer William Boyd. Photo / Supplied By: David Herkt Reviewed by David Herkt A film is being shot in seaside Brighton in the summer of 1968, that year of global convulsion with its political assassinations, street riots and rebellion. William Boyds new novel, Trio, uses the intensity of those emotions as the backdrop for a story with a seedier, somehow very Br...

Fiction reviews: Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain and three others We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Fiction reviews: Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain and three others By Kerryn Goldsworthy Normal text size Credit: Rose Tremain’s portrait of the British Empire in 1865 is full of adventurers. There is the sexual adventurer Julietta, the tropical adventurer Sir Ralph, and a couple of intellectual adventurers, the bohemian artist Emmeline and...