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 "New York Times"-bestselling tour de force to electrify Bond fans everywhere.
A bestseller in Britain, where it has been compared to "A Farewell to Arms", this novel about a clandestine love affair between an Englishman and a Frenchwoman is set against the backdrop of World War I. It includes vivid, harrowing, unforgettable battle scenes and a fascinating look at a little known area of the war: the setting of underground ...
France in the 1930s is the setting for this novel about an earnest and beautiful young woman named Anne with a mysterious past. She becomes a waitress at a small hotel in a nearby town, where she meets Charles, a married World War I veteran. When Anne and Charles embark on an affair, one unexpected result is that the deepest secrets of Anne's ...
Mike Engleby says things that others dare not even think. When the novel opens in the 1970s, he is a university student, having survived a 'traditional' school. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, Engleby provides a disarmingly frank account of English education. Yet beneath the disturbing surface of his observations lies an unfolding mystery of ...
In the midst of World War II, a young Scotswoman named Charlotte Gray falls passionately in love Peter Gregory, an RAF pilot. When Peter crash-lands in France, Charlotte persuades the British Secret Service to allow her to go there, in disguise, in search of him.
The events of Pietro Russell's life are told in 26 chapters. From A-Z, each chapter is set in a different place and reveals a fragment of his story. As his memories flicker back and forth through time in his search for a resolution to the conflicts of his life, his story gradually unfolds...
The three brief but elegant biographies drawn here mirror the lives of their subjects, each of whom was gifted in his own way but died tragically young in the mid-20th century.
"Human Traces" explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are. Jacques Rebire and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when the story starts in 1876, come from different countries and contrasting families. They are united by an ambition to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human. As ...
In the first of Sebastian Faulks's novels to be set not in Europe but in America, an alcoholic British diplomat in Washington is in danger of losing his wife to the American reporter with whom she is having an affair.
Concentrating on 20th-century wars, this collection includes work by Wolfgang Koeppen, Larry Heinemann, Evelyn Waugh, Gunter Grass, Norman Mailer, Shusako Endo, and Louis Begley.
In this unique and compelling anthology, Sebastian Faulks has collected the best fiction about war in the 20th century. Ranging from the First World War to the Gulf War, these stories depict a soldier's experience from call-up, battle and comradeship, to leave, hospital and trauma in later life. Truly international in scope, this anthology ...
The three brief but elegant biographies drawn here mirror the lives of their subjects, each of whom was gifted in his own way but died tragically young in the mid-20th century.
The word pistache (pis-tash) means a friendly spoof or parody of another's work. [Derivation uncertain, possibly a cross between pastiche and p**stake.] From Thomas Hardy's football report to Dan Brown's visit to the cash dispenser, the work of the great and the not-so-great is here sent up with little hope of coming down. Most of these pieces ...
London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days, we follow the lives of seven major characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work and too much time to speculate; a student who has been led astray by Islamist ...
In the midst of World War II, a young Scotswoman named Charlotte Gray falls passionately in love Peter Gregory, an RAF pilot. When Peter crash-lands in France, Charlotte persuades the British Secret Service to allow her to go there, in disguise, in search of him.
A bestseller in Britain, where it has been compared to "A Farewell to Arms", this novel about a clandestine love affair between an Englishman and a Frenchwoman is set against the backdrop of World War I. It includes vivid, harrowing, unforgettable battle scenes and a fascinating look at a little known area of the war: the setting of underground ...
A bestseller in Britain, where it has been compared to "A Farewell to Arms", this novel about a clandestine love affair between an Englishman and a Frenchwoman is set against the backdrop of World War I. It includes vivid, harrowing, unforgettable battle scenes and a fascinating look at a little known area of the war: the setting of underground ...
UNA HERMOSA HISTORIA DE AMOR Y DESEO ENFRENTADA A LOS DEBERES Y LAS RESPONSABILIDADES, QUE COMIENZA CUANDO UNA MISTERIOSA MUCHACHA LLEGA A OCUPAR EL PUESTO DE CAMARERA EN UNA DERRUIDA POSADA DE UN PUEBLITO FRANCES, A MEDIADOS DE LA DECADA DE 1930.Un relato irresistible, pleno de emocion y belleza, que recrea de manera impecable la ominosa ...
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