An Ice-cream War by William Boyd
Millions die on the Western Front but in East Africa a quite different war is being waged - one with little point and which is so ignored that it will carry on after the Armistice because no one bothers to tell both sides to stop.-
1984
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Animal Farm
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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In Cold Blood
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A Clockwork Orange
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A Month in the Country
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Cold Comfort Farm
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The Forty Rules of Love
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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The Bastard of Istanbul
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Mr Loverman
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
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Lolita
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Any Human Heart
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On the Road
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My Family and Other Animals
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The Periodic Table
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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Moon Tiger
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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Perfume
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Out of Africa
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The Pursuit of Love
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Invisible Man
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A Room with a View
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The Millstone
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The Rotters' Club
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Eva Luna
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Junky
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White Teeth
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Cat's Cradle
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Bonjour Tristesse
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Brighton Rock
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Steppenwolf
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Hell's Angels
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The Thin Man
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A Spell of Winter
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The Snow Goose and The Small Miracle
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The Day of the Triffids
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The Go-Between
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Libra
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The Man in the High Castle
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The Plague
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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The Big Sleep
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Goodbye to All That
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Hotel du Lac
William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana and grew up there and in Nigeria. His first novel, A Good Man in Africa (1981), won the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Somerset Maugham Prize. His other novels include An Ice Cream War (1982, shortlisted for the 1982 Booker Prize and winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Stars and Bars (1984), The New Confessions (1987), Brazzaville Beach (1990, winner of the McVitie Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize), The Blue Afternoon (1993, winner of the 1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award), Armadillo (1998), Any Human Heart (2002, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet) and Restless (2006, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year Award). His latest novel is Sweet Caress (2015). Some seventeen of his screenplays have been filmed, including The Trench (1999), which he also directed, and he is also the author of four collections of short stories: On the Yankee Station (1981), The Destiny of Nathalie 'X' (1995), Fascination (2004) and The Dream Lover (2008). He is married and divides his time between London and South West France.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241970751 |
| ISBN 10 | 024197075X |
| Title | An Ice-cream War |
| Author | William Boyd |
| Series | Penguin Essentials |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2014-08-14 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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