8:12 am today

William Boyd: Gabriel's Moon

From Saturday Morning, 8:12 am today

Best selling author and screenwriter William Boyd returns to our bookshelves, again drawn to the world of espionage.

Billed as Britain's greatest storyteller, Gabriel's Moon is set in sixties London, home to accidental spy Gabriel Dax, a young insomniac travel writer haunted by tragic memories and targeted by MI6.

Boyd is the author of eighteen novels, including Solo - a James Bond follow up - and A Good Man in Africa, winner of a slew of awards including the Whitbread, and has previously been shortlisted for the Booker prize.

Photo: Penguin.co.nz/Trevor Leighton

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