Sebastian Faulks Livres

Washington, 1960. L'Amérique vit dans l'illusion d'un avenir meilleur tandis que les jeunes sénateurs Nixon et Kennedy se livrent à une lutte sans merci. Non loin de la Maison-Blanche, Mary Van der Linden, mère comblée et épouse d'un diplomate britannique, mène une existence paisible, partagée entre les soirées à l'ambassade et les week-ends en voilier. Mais sous ces apparences sereines ressurgissent des douleurs enfouies. Quelles peurs secrètes semblent condamner Charlie Van der Linden à sombrer dans un alcoolisme qui n'a plus rien de mondain ? Quelle issue trouveront les combats de Mary contre des fantômes du passé et des menaces bien présentes ? Quel secours pourra lui apporter Frank Renzo, journaliste new-yorkais qui tente de se réconcilier avec la vie ? Sensuel comme une ballade de Miles Davis, porté par une écriture ciselée et un immense pouvoir d'évocation, Les Désenchantés trace le portrait d'une époque belle et meurtrie, riche des illusions et des blessures de personnages à l'aube de leur destin.

Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. Over the course of the novel he suffers a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experiences of the war itself.

Ranging from the First World War to the Gulf War, this collection of stories investigates the nature of military experience: from call-ups, the field of battle and comradeship, to leave, hospitalisation and trauma in later life. Truly international in scope, it includes stories by Erich Maria Remarque and Pat Barker, Isaac Babel and Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich Böll and Norman Mailer, JG Ballard and Tim O`Brian, Julian Barnes and Louis de Bernières. Together they form a uniquely powerful evocation of the horrors of war.

'Brings the peerless Jeeves and Wooster barrelling back to life' Daily Mail A gloriously witty novel from Sebastian Faulks using P.G. Wodehouseâe(tm)s much-loved characters, Jeeves and Wooster, fully authorised by the Wodehouse estate. 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 hour and, thanks to Jeeves, his gentlemanâe(tm)s personal gentleman, is never less than immaculately dressed. On this occasion, however, it is Jeeves who is to be seen in the drawing room while Bertie finds himself below stairs âe" which he doesnâe(tm)t care for at all. His predicament is, of course, all in the name of love âe¦ âe~A masterpiece âe¦ a pitch-perfect undertakingâe(tm) Spectator âe~Entirely delightfulâe(tm) Financial Times âe~Delightfully witty, packed with punsâe(tm) Sunday Mirror âe~A polished sparkling genuine fakeâe(tm) Herald

A novel of overwhelming emotional power, Birdsong is a story of love, death, sex and survival. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in Amiens in northern France in 1910 to stay with the Azaire family, and falls in love with unhappily married Isabelle. But, with the world on the brink of war, the relationship falters, and Stephen volunteers to fight on the Western Front. His love for Isabelle forever engraved on his heart, he experiences the unprecedented horrors of that conflict - from which neither he nor any reader of this book can emerge unchanged.

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 Gulf War, these stories depict a soldier's experience from call-up, battle and comradeship, to leave, hospital and trauma in later life.

In 1942, Charlotte Gray goes to Occupied France on a duel mission, to run a simple errand for a British special operations group and to find her lover, an English airman who has gone missing in action. It is in the town of Lavaurette that she finds friendship and experiences life under Nazi rule. From the author of BIRDSONG.

Included in this collection of war fiction, from the First World War to the Gulf War, are stories by Erich Maria Remarque, Pat Barker, Isaac Babel, Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich Böll, Norman Mailer, J.G. Ballard, Tim O’Brien, Julian Barnes and Louis de Bernières.

pistache (pis-tash): a friendly spoof or parody of another's work. Possibly a cross between pastiche and pstake.] 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.

Christopher Wood, a beautiful young Englishman, decided to be the greatest painter the world had seen. He went to Paris in 1921. By day he studied, by night he attended the parties of the beau monde. He knew Picasso, worked for Diaghilev and was a friend of Cocteau. 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. Richard Hilary, confident, handsome and unprincipled, flew Spitfires in the Battle of Britain before being shot down and horribly burned. He underwent several operations by the legendary plastic surgeon, A H McIndoe. His account of his experiences, The Last Enemy , made him famous, but not happy. He begged to be allowed to return to flying, and died mysteriously in a night training operation, aged 23. Jeremy Wolfenden was born in 1936, the son of Jack, later Lord Wolfenden. Charming, generous and witty, he was the cleverest Englishman of his generation, but left All Souls to become a hack reporter. At the height of the Cold War, he was sent to Moscow where his louche private life made him the plaything of the intelligence services. A terrifying sequence of events ended in Washington where he died at the age of 31.