” An Ice-cream War” is William Boyd`s hilarious bestselling novel of love & battle. ` We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!` British soldier, East Africa, October 1914. As millions are slaughtered on the Western Front, a ridiculous & little-reported campaign is being waged in East Africa
- a war they continued after the Armistice because no one told them to stop. Primarily a gripping story of the men & women swept up by the passions of love & battle, William Boyd`s magnificently entertaining novel also elicits the cruel futility & tragedy of it all. ” An Ice-cream War” will be loved by fans of ” Any Human Heart” & ”A Good Man in Africa”, as well as readers of Ben Macintyre, Sebastian Faulks, Nick Hornby & Hilary Mantel. ” Compulsively readable”. (” Observer”). ” He has a black-edged laughter of his own.. .quite outstanding”. (” Sunday Times”). William Boyd has received world-wide acclaim for his novels. They are: ”A Good Man in Africa” (1981, winner of the Whitbread Award & the Somerset Maugham Prize), ” An Ice Cream War” (1982, shortlisted for the 1982 Booker Prize & winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), ” Stars & Bars” (1984), ” The New Confessions” (1987), ” Brazzaville Beach” (1990, winner of the Mc Vitie Prize & the James Tait Black Memorial Prize), ” The Blue Afternoon” (1993, winner of the 1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award & the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, 1995), ” Armadillo” (1998), & ” Any Human Heart” (2002, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet). He is also the author of a collection of screenplays & a memoir of his school days, ” School Ties” (1985); & three collections of short stories: ” On the Yankee Station” (1981), ” The Destiny of Nathalie `X`” (1995) & ” Fascination” (2004). He also wrote the speculative memoir ” Nat Tate: an American Artist”
- the publication of which, in the spring of 1998, caused something of a stir on both sides of the Atlantic. A collection of his non-fiction writings, 1978-2004, entitled ” Bamboo”, was published in October 2005. His ninth novel, ” Restless”, was published in September 2006 (Costa Book Award, Novel of the Year 2006) & his tenth novel, ” Ordinary Thunderstorms”, published September 2009. His most recent novel is ” Waiting For Sunrise” which published in February 2011.