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  • Published: 4 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9780141046891
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $29.99

A Good Man in Africa




William Boyd's classic debut now reissued in the stunning new look

Overweight, oversexed and over there . . .

Morgan Leafy is hardly the most respectable of Her Majesty's representatives in the West African state of Kinjanja. For starters, he probably shouldn't have involved himself in wholesale bribery. Nor was it a good career move to go chasing after his boss's daughter; especially when his doctor banned him from horizontal pursuits.

But life is about to change for young Morgan Leafy. Every betrayal and humiliation he has suffered at the hands of petty persecutors is suddenly put into perspective. For Morgan has a dead body on his hands - and somehow, some way he's going to have to get rid of it . . .

  • Published: 4 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9780141046891
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $29.99

About the author

William Boyd

William Boyd is the author of one work of non-fiction, three collections of short stories and thirteen novels, including the bestselling historical spy thriller Restless – winner of the Costa Novel of the Year – and Any Human Heart, in which the character of Ian Fleming features. Among his other awards are the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Jean Monnet. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2005, he was awarded the CBE.

Born in Ghana in 1952, William Boyd spent much of his early life in West Africa. He now divides his time between the south-west of France and Chelsea, where he lives a stone’s throw from James Bond’s London address.

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Praise for A Good Man in Africa

Uproariously funny

Observer

A delight

Washington Post

If a widening grin is the test of a novel's entertainment value in retrospect, A Good Man in Africa romps home

Guardian

Wickedly funny

The Times