Any Human Heart by William Boyd

My book group was inspired to read this by David Robinson's book In Cold Ink.  Although not all of us agreed, I really loved this mock memoir.  It reads like an insider's romp through the literary and art world of the 21st Century, with walk on parts from such luminaries as Picasso, Virginia Woolf and Hemmingway. 

Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906 and died of a heart attack in 1991, aged 85yrs.  A flawed human if ever there was one, he nevertheless kept me gripped by sheer force of character and the brilliance of the writing.  I kept having to remind myself that Logan Mountstuart was in fact fictional.  He lives and breathes from every page with that ascerbic humour, honesty and questionable morality.

The great news is that William Boyd has a new novel out this September.