An Ice-cream War" is William Boyds 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 Boyds 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."