Thorndike Press Large Print Reviewers' Choice: Waiting for Sunrise (Hardcover)

from SamSattler

Readers of William Boyd's new novel Waiting for Sunrise had best be prepared to play amateur detective because this one is filled with enough twists, turns, false leads, hints, and clues to make anyone's head spin. Best of all, it is both an admirable piece of historical fiction and a whole lot o...

from dbsovereign

Boyd mixes genre in this book about psychology and espionage set in the years around WW1. Our reluctant hero gets psychoanalyzed in Vienna and is then forced to hastily flee. Having been talked into becoming a spy catcher, he finds himself at odds with his handlers. At times reminiscent of Burges...

from Eyejaybee

For reasons I can't fathom, I had found myself re-reading a lot of books during 202, even before COVID-19 took such devastating hold, leading to lockdown, and what amounted almost to house arrest. Certainly since the restrictions came into force, I have found it surprisingly difficult to engage w...

from GarySeverance

British author William Boyd's new novel is his latest in an extended list of books. But, as advertised by Jonathan Burnham of Harper-Collins Publishers, new readers of the work of Mr. Boyd (like I am) can pick it up and feel like they have discovered a brand new writer. The novel is carefully str...

from jayne_charles

I think William Boyd is the only author who writes spy novels I can follow. What he does so well here, as well as elsewhere, is to select an unfamiliar setting (in this case Vienna just before the start of WWI) and bring it to life with stories of human events as relevant then as they are now. Th...