Giles Foden was born in 1967 and spent much of his early life in Africa. For ten years, he was an editor and writer for the Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian, and his work has since been published in Granta, Vogue, Esquire, The New York Times and Conde Nast Traveller, where he is a contributing editor. His fiction includes The Last King of Scotland, Ladysmith, Zanzibar and Turbulence. The Last King of Scotland was made into an Oscar-winning feature film in 2006.
The most original and interesting novelist of his generation - SCOTSMANAudacious, shrewd and spirited - William Boyd on THE LAST KING OF SCOTLANDRich, complex and immensely satisfying . . . [Foden's] fiction is so convincing that it is hard not to feel that you are reading the real inside story - Evening Standard on ZANZIBARFoden writes of Africa with great beauty, even love; his sense of place is unerring, his details exact, felicitous, often rising to the luminosity of poetry - THE TIMESA fascinating read: Wilbur Smith meets William Boyd in the warm seas and spice-scented air of Zanzibar - NEW STATEMAN on ZANZIBAR
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