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- - - 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 or director, an actor or photographer, or a bit of each, and the plight of a radical bomber can be played for laughs or pathos or a simple reminder that the...

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 or director, an actor or photographer, or a bit of each, and the plight of a radical bomber can be ...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Book World: William Boyd's 'Trio' is a rollicking escape from today's 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 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 t...

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 certainly something in Boyd’s prolific oeuvre that has it covered. For readers who go to fiction for th...

William Boyd's 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 Boyd's new novel, Trio, uses the intensity of those emotions as the backdrop for a story with a seedier, somehow very British, edge. It's a carefully plotted novel of the intersection of individual human lives and grea...