"Which Scottish author wrote ""A Good Man in Africa"", ""The New Confessions"", and his most recent novel ""Ordinary Thunderstorms""?"
A Good Man in Africa (novel) the collection was actually written before the novel, though Boyd claimed he had written both when he sent the collection to potential publishers. Hamish Hamilton agreed to publish the novel (as yet unwritten) and collection in that order, Boyd admits "So I said to my new editor, Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson, 'Look, the manuscript is in a shocking state, I just need a couple of months to knock into shape’, and I sat down and wrote "A Good Man in Africa" in a white heat of dynamic endeavour in three months at my kitchen table. William Boyd grew up in Western Africa,
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself: With a detail of curious traditionary facts and other evidence by the editor is a novel by the Scottish author James Hogg, published anonymously in 1824. Considered by turns part-gothic novel, part-psychological mystery, part-metafiction, part-satire, part-case study of totalitarian thought, it can also be thought of as an early example of modern crime fiction in which the story is told, for the most part, from the point of view of its criminal anti-hero. The action of the novel is