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A Possible Life (2012)
by Sebastian Faulks
Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket ground in Hampshire. Across the courtyard in a Victorian workhouse, a father too ashamed to acknowledge his son. A skinny girl steps out of a Chevy with a guitar; her... (learn more about this book)
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A Possible Life (2012)
A Novel in Five Parts
by Sebastian Faulks
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of "Birdsong," new fiction about love and war — five transporting stories and five unforgettable lives, linked across centuries.
In Second World War Poland, a young prisoner closes his eyes and pictures going to bat on a sunlit English... (learn more about this book)
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Faulks on Fiction (2011)
The Secret Life of the Novel
by Sebastian Faulks
he British invented the novel, with the publication of Robinson Crusoe in 1719 marking the arrival of a revolutionary and distinctly modern form of art. But it's also true, as Sebastian Faulks argues in this remarkable book, that the novel helped invent the British: for the first time we had... (learn more about this book)
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A Week in December (2009)
by Sebastian Faulks
Powerful contemporary novel set in London from a master of literary fiction Structured like a thriller, A Week in December takes place over the course of a single week at the end of 2008. Set in London, it brings together an intriguing cast of characters whose lives apparently run on parallel... (learn more about this book)
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James Bond: Book 41Devil May Care (2008)
by Sebastian Faulks
Bond is back. With a vengeance. Devil May Care is a masterful continuation of the James Bond legacy–an electrifying new chapter in the life of the most iconic spy of literature and film, written to celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth on May 28, 1908. An Algerian drug runner is... (learn more about this book)
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Engleby (2007)
by Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Faulks’s new novel is a bolt from the blue: contemporary, demotic, angry, heart-wrenching, and funny, in the deepest shade of black. Mike Engleby says things that others dare not even think. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, he rises without trace in Thatcher’s England and scorches... (learn more about this book)
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Pistache (2006)
by Sebastian Faulks
Some very interesting pieces from the pen of the bestselling author of Birdsong and Human Traces — a collection of clever, funny and surprising parodies, pastiches and air-shots, inspired by The Write Stuff on Britain’s Radio 4. Here’s a small sample of Pistache pieces: Thomas Hardy is... (learn more about this book)
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Human Traces (2005)
by Sebastian Faulks
What is it to be human? This question, as in Birdsong , is at the heart of Human Traces . The story begins in Brittany where a young, poor boy somehow passes his medical exams and goes to Paris, where he attends the lectures of Charcot, the Parisian neurologist who set the world on its head in... (learn more about this book)
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On Green Dolphin Street (2003)
by Sebastian Faulks
The bestselling author of Birdsong and Charlotte Gray delivers an enthralling, vibrantly evocative novel set in America in 1960, when the country stood poised between the paranoia of the Cold War and the ebullience of the New Frontier. Faulks' heroine is Mary Van der Linden, a pretty,... (learn more about this book)
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Charlotte Gray (1998)
by Sebastian Faulks
From the bestselling author of Birdsong comes Charlotte Gray , the remarkable story of a young Scottish woman who becomes caught up in the effort to liberate Occupied France from the Nazis while pursuing a perilous mission of her own. In blacked-out, wartime London, Charlotte Gray develops a... (learn more about this book)
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