William Boyd introduces his new novel, Waiting for Sunrise, a love story and a thriller about secret intelligence set in Vienna just before and during World War I, and discusses its themes of Freudian psychoanalysis, suspicion and betrayal. Boyd, a former tutor at St Hilda’s College, is author of ten novels including A Good Man in Africa, An Ice-Cream War, Brazzaville Beach, Any Human Heart and Restless. His awards include the Whitbread Prize and Somerset Maugham Award.

This event is part of the St Hilda’s College media day.