William Boyd

This contemporary collection features thriller writer Ruth Rendell, witty William Boyd, the Japanese literary sensation Haruki Murakami, ever-inventive Helen Simpson, and Patrick O’Brien, world-famous for his nautical series.

Readers include top British actors Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres and Janet McTeer.



But I do enjoy words—some words—for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent

Lanark

Alasdair Gray