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'A worthy successor to Birdsong' Alain de Botton
'Superbly done...Another winner' Sunday Telegraph
Sebastian Faulks was born and brought up in Newbury, Berkshire. He worked in journalism before starting to write books. He is best known for the French trilogy, The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray (1989-1997) and is also the author of a triple biography, The Fatal Englishman (1996); a small book of literary parodies, Pistache (2006); and the novels Human Traces (2005) and Engleby (2007). He lives in London with his wife and their three children.
Website: http://authorsplace.co.uk/sebastian-faulks/
Now a major BBC adaptation
Moving and challenging in equal measure, Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are
Engleby is a gripping, demotic, heart-wrenching novel, laced with dark humour
'Wildly exciting..it's a classic' David Hare
A beautiful and moving novel about love and loss in France in the early twentieth century
Powerful contemporary novel set in London from a master of literary fiction