An Ice-cream War is William Boyd's hilarious bestselling novel of love and battle



'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!' British soldier, East Africa, October 1914



As millions are slaughtered on the Western Front, a ridiculous and little-reported campaign is being waged in East Africa - a war they continued after the Armistice because no one told them to stop.



Primarily a gripping story of the men and women swept up by the passions of love and battle, William Boyd's magnificently entertaining novel also elicits the cruel futility and tragedy of it all.



An Ice-cream War will be loved by fansof Any Human Heart and A Good Man in Africa, as well as readers of Ben Macintyre, SebastianFaulks, Nick Hornby and Hilary Mantel.

'Compulsively readable' Observer



'He has a black-edged laughter of his own . . . quite outstanding' Sunday Times



WILLIAM BOYD has received world-wide acclaim for his novels.They are: A Good Man in Africa (1981, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Prize) An Ice Cream War (1982, shortlisted for the 1982 BookerPrize 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 ofthe 1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, 1995), Armadillo (1998), Any Human Heart (2002, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet), Restless (2006) (CostaBook Award, Novel of the Year 2006), Ordinary Thunderstorms (2009) and Waiting For Sunrise (2011).