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Sat 02 Feb 2007Boyd to edit 'Granta 100'LooseLeaves:Veteran novelist William Boyd, whose spy saga, Restless, lost out to debut novel The Tenderness of Wolves, by Stef Penney, on Wednesday when the winner of the one-time Whitbread, now Costa Book of the Year Award, was announced in London, has something else in his sights already. He's to guest-edit the 100th issue of Granta magazine in January 2008 as a way of marking this milestone in the periodical's history. Boyd will be putting together an expanded edition with new contributions from many of the famous names from Granta's past.