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Sebastian Faulks
The internationally bestselling author of Where My Heart Used to Beat and Charlotte Gray presents an urgent and deeply moving story of resistance, complicity, and an unlikely, transformative friendship, set…
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The exhilarating new literary novel from the worldwide bestseller and master storyteller
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From the bestselling author of Birdsong comes this masterful novel of love and science in the 19th century.
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THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF BIRDSONG
'Excruciatingly powerful' ANTONY BEEVOR 'A brilliant, harrowing, powerful novel' DAILY MAIL 'Faulks is a prodigiously talented writer' NEW YORK TIMES
In the…
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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
'A thoughtful page-turner' THE TIMES 'Vast, well-plotted and gripping throughout' SPECTATOR 'Richly entertaining and highly rewarding' EVENING STANDARD
Seven Londoners are invited to an opulent dinner…
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Lena leaves her metropolitan dream behind to take a menial job at the snow-bound sanatorium, the Schloss Seeblick. 1933: Still struggling to come terms with the loss of so many…
The Sunday Times bestselling epic love story from master storyteller Sebastian Faulks
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Faulks's most poignant love story yet' ANTONY BEEVOR
1914- Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in…
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Birdsong is a mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations between WW1 and present day. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 1910.
From the bestselling author of "Birdsong" comes this masterful novel of love and science in the 19th century.
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Genuinely thought-provoking' THE TIMES 'Extraordinary' WILLIAM BOYD 'Faulks is an enviably graceful and economical writer' GUARDIAN
A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING
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'A masterpiece' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Ambitious, demanding and profoundly melancholy' GUARDIAN
Dr. Robert Hendricks has just received a mysterious invitation. Psychiatrist Alexander Pereira has asked him to…
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'Profound . . . Faulks evokes a deep compassion' OBSERVER 'Does what a good novel should - it unsettles, it moves, and it forces…
THE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLER
'Magnificent - deeply moving' Sunday Times 'Engrossing, moving, and unforgettable' The Times
In the heat of the French summer of 1910, young Englishman Stephen Wraysford arrives in…
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'Superb' OBSERVER 'Cunningly crafted' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Faulks is doing what he does best' SUNDAY TIMES
In the depths of the archive, Hannah dances with the ghosts…
On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks - an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer…
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'Beautifully written and extraordinarily moving' SUNDAY TIMES 'A powerful story of love, conscience, will and desire' OBSERVER 'A poised and well-judged work' FINANCIAL TIMES
Anne Louvet…
A beautifully controlled and powerful story of love and conscience, will and desire, which begins when a mysterious young girl arrives to take up the post at the seedy Hotel…
Pat Wheeler
The Continuum Contemporaries series is designed as a source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and literature students at school, college and university. It aims to give…
FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BIRDSONG
'Compelling and stunningly written' THE TIMES 'Wildly exciting . . . a classic' SPECTATOR 'Flawless…
Ever since Robinson Crusoe in 1719, the novel has introduced British readers to truly unforgettable characters - people in whom we can find deeper understanding of our own lives.
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Christopher Wood, a young Englishman, decided to be the greatest painter the world had seen. Richard Hilary, confident, handsome and unprincipled, flew Spitfires in the Battle of Britain before being…
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In this unique and compelling anthology, Sebastian Faulks and Jorg Hensgen have collected the best fiction about war in the twentieth century. Ranging from the First World War to the…
Set in France before and during World War I, this is the story of a young Englishman who is impelled through a series of extreme experiences, from a traumatic clandestine…
In a year of great change, Mary van der Linden is undergoing a transformation, guided in her search by Frank, a New York journalist who introduces her to Greenwich Village…
From the bestselling author of Birdsong comes the remarkable story of a young Highland native who, at the height of World War II, joins the effort to liberate Occupied France…
and a Tube driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop. With daring skill, the novel pieces together the complex patterns and…
A #1 bestseller in England, this novel is at once a magnificently erotic love story and a savagely powerful evocation of the carnage of World War I. A young Englishman…
Bertie Wooster is staying at the stately home of Sir Henry Hackwood in Dorset. He is more than familiar with the country-house set-up: he is a veteran of the cocktail…
In the last months of his 29-year life, he fought a ravening opium addiction to succeed in claiming a place in history of English painting. He begged to be allowed…
A collection of parodies. It contains works from Thomas Hardy’s football report to Dan Brown’s visit to the cash dispenser.
Bestselling British author Faulks reinvents the unreliable narrator with his singular, haunting creation Mike Engleby, who takes an unclear and often darkly humorous path where one is never completely comfortable…
It’s the swinging Sixties and a flood of narcotics is pouring into Britain. Sinister industrialist Dr Julius Gorner is identified as the source and James Bond is dispatched to investigate…
and a Tube train driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop. With daring skill, the novel pieces together the complex patterns…
Based on Sebastian Faulks’s … novel, Birdsong tells the story of a soldier haunted by his past. As a young man, Stephen Wraysford was caught up in an all-consuming love…
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'Compelling . . . Faulks has become an international sensation' GUARDIAN 'Performs like an elegant melody' OBSERVER 'Tense…
Discover the moving powerful prequel to Snow Country ‘An extraordinary novel of magnificent scope’ Evening Standard As young boys both Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to…
'A genuinely thought-provoking piece of fiction' THE TIMES 'Extraordinary' WILLIAM BOYD 'Profoundly moving…
'Ambitious and beautifully crafted' THE TIMES 'Faulks writes with great emotional authority' SUNDAY TIMES
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'Vivid . . . engagingly lucid and disarmingly funny' GUARDIAN 'Beautifully done . . . witty and poignant'…
In the heat of the French summer of 1910, young Englishman Stephen Wraysford arrives in Amiens to stay…
James Bond is back. By invitation of the Fleming estate to mark the centenary of the Bond creator’s birth, acclaimed novelist Faulks picks up where Fleming left off, writing a…
Sebastian Faulks,Ian Fleming
A masterful continuation of the James Bond legacy, Devil May Care picks up right where Ian Fleming left off–at the height of the Cold War, with a story of almost…
For theatre lovers, teachers & students, fans of Faulks and all fans of classic literature, romance and period drama.
Henry Green
Loving explored class distinctions through the medium of love and brilliantly contrasts the lives of servants and masters in an Irish castle during World War Two, Living of workers and…
Offers a non-fiction anthology of writing on the First World War. This book presents a collection of personal and defining moments that offer an unprecedented insight into the Great War…
