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.

Bond, James Bond est de retour. Et cette fois l'agent secret le plus célèbre n'a d'autre choix que d'affronter le Diable lui-même s'il veut sauver le monde. Pourra-t-il empêcher le pire, alors qu'un avion de ligne britannique disparaît et que se multiplient les signes avant-coureurs d'un conflit planétaire ? Écrit par le romancier Sebastian Faulks pour saluer le centenaire de la naissance de Ian Fleming, Le Diable l'emporte reprend les aventures du légendaire espion de Sa Majesté là où son créateur les a laissées, au sommet de la guerre froide. Un brillant hommage, dans la meilleure tradition du suspense qui a fait le succès mondial de 007, à l'écrit comme à l'écran.

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.

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.

'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.

An undercover courier for England goes behind enemy lines to track down her lover, who is an RAF pilot downed over France.

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.

A collection of fanciful, satirical and surprising parodies, squibs and pastiches inspired by The Write Stuff on BBC Radio 4.Pistache (pis-tash): a friendly spoof or parody of another's work. [Deriv uncertain. Possibly a cross between pastiche and p**stake.]     From the writer of such brilliant parodies as Thomas Hardy's football report and Dan Brown's visit to the cash dispenser comes another collection of witty pastiches.

Discover the moving powerful prequel to Snow Country ' An extraordinary novel of magnificent scope' Evening StandardAs young boys both Jacques Rebière and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind. As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa. As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War divides Europe, the two men's volatile relationship develops and changes, but is always tempered by one exceptional woman; Thomas's sister Sonia. Moving and challenging in equal measure, Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are.

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 gripping power. One of his contemporaries unaccountably disappears, and as we follow Engleby's career, which brings us up to the present day, the reader has to ask: is Engleby capable of telling the whole truth? Sebastian Faulks's new novel is a bolt from the blue, unlike anything he has written before: contemporary, demotic, heart-wrenching - and funny, in the deepest shade of black.

A mysterious young girl arrives to take up a post at the seedy Hotel du Lion d'Or in a small French town in the mid-1930's

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, is forced to confront the events that made up his life. His host, and antagonist, is Alexander Pereira, a man whose time is running out, but who seems to know more about his guest than Hendricks himself does. The search for sanity takes us through the war in Italy in 1944, a passionate love that seems to hold out hope, the great days of idealistic work in the 1960s and finally – unforgettably – back into the trenches of the Western Front. The recurring themes of Sebastian Faulks’s fiction are here brought together with a new stylistic brilliance as the novel casts a long, baleful light over the century we have left behind but may never fully understand. Daring, ambitious and in the end profoundly moving, this is Faulks’s most remarkable book yet.

1914: Young Anton Heideck has arrived in Vienna, eager to make his name as a journalist. While working part-time as a private tutor, he encounters Delphine, a woman who mixes startling candour with deep reserve. Entranced by the light of first love, Anton feels himself blessed. Until his country declares war on hers. 1927: For Lena, life with a drunken mother in a small town has been impoverished and cold. She is convinced she can amount to nothing until a young lawyer, Rudolf Plischke, spirits her away to Vienna. But the capital proves unforgiving. 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 friends on the Eastern Front, Anton, now an established writer, is commissioned by a magazine to visit the mysterious Schloss Seeblick. In this place of healing, on the banks of a silvery lake, where the depths of human suffering and the chances of redemption are explored, two people will see each other as if for the first time.

'Faulks is beyond doubt a master' Financial Times Here is Paris as you have never seen it before - a city in which every building seems to hold the echo of an unacknowledged past, the shadows of Vichy and Algeria. American postdoctoral researcher Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in common, yet both are susceptible to the daylight ghosts of Paris. Hannah listens to the extraordinary witness of women who were present under the German Occupation; in her desire to understand their lives and through them her own, she finds a city bursting with clues and connections. Out in the migrant suburbs, Tariq is searching for a mother he barely knew. For him in his innocence each boulevard, Metro station and street corner is a source of surprise. In this urgent and deeply moving novel, Faulks deals with questions of empire, grievance and identity. With great originality and a dark humour, Paris Echo asks how much we really need to know if we are to live a valuable life. 'Faulks captures the voice of a century' Sunday Times 'The most impressive novelist of his generation' Sunday Telegraph

'Genuinely thought-provoking' THE TIMES'Extraordinary' WILLIAM BOYD 'Faulks is an enviably graceful and economical writer' GUARDIANA CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHINGTech billionaire Lukas Parn has an ambitious plan. Behind the doors of the IVF clinic in his London institute, a daring switch is mad[Bokinfo].

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.

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 voice sends shivers through the skull. Soldiers and lovers, parents and children, scientists and musicians risk their bodies and hearts in search of connection - some key to understanding what makes us the people we become. Provocative and profound, Sebastian Faulks's dazzling novel journeys across continents and time to explore the chaos created by love, separation and missed opportunities. From the pain and drama of these highly particular lives emerges a mysterious consolation: the chance to feel your heart beat in someone else's life.

**NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Seven wintry days to track the lives of seven 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 theory; a hack book-reviewer; a schoolboy hooked on skunk and reality TV; 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 crossings of modern urban life, and the group is forced, one by one, to confront the true nature of the world they inhabit. Sweeping, satirical, Dickensian in scope, A Week in December is a thrilling state of the nation novel from a master of literary fiction.

Dvě ústřední postavy, Thomas Midwinter a Jacques Rebiere, se po náhodném setkání vydávají na složitou cestu odhalování lidské mysli. Na pařížské klinice a v vlastním psychiatrickém sanatoriu se snaží vyřešit otázku, na níž se zavázali nalézt odpověď. Jejich vztah se však komplikuje a do jejich životů zasahuje válka. Děj se odehrává na přelomu 19. a 20. století, v době počátků moderní psychiatrie, k jejímuž rozvoji se oba hrdinové snaží přispět. Náhodné setkání na francouzském pobřeží vede k celoživotnímu přátelství a partnerství, ať už během studií v Paříži, v sanatoriu v rakousko-uherské Carinthii, nebo v poválečném Londýně. Každý z nich má jiný přístup k práci; Jacques se inspiruje psychoanalýzou a terapeutickými postupy, zatímco Thomas se zaměřuje na neurologické a vývojové mechanismy psychotických poruch. Dramatičnost příběhu umocňují životní osudy Sonii, Thomasovy sestry a Jacquesovy manželky, a duševně nemocného Oliviera, Jacquesova bratra, kterému se hrdinové snaží pomoci. Válka zasahuje do jejich osudů a přináší další otázky o smyslu bytí a podstatě člověka.

Bond returns with a vengeance in this electrifying new chapter celebrating Ian Fleming's legacy. An Algerian drug runner is brutally executed on the outskirts of Paris, prompting MI6 to recall Agent 007 from his sabbatical in Rome. The head of MI6, M, assigns Bond to shadow the enigmatic Dr. Julius Gorner, a power-hungry pharmaceutical magnate with a troubling interest in opiate derivatives, both legal and illegal. To navigate this dangerous mission, Bond teams up with the glamorous Parisian Scarlett Papava. Together, they confront a life-and-death struggle against a formidable adversary, as a series of events threaten global catastrophe. A British airliner disappears over Iraq, and the specter of war looms in the Middle East, while a flood of lethal narcotics threatens to engulf Britain amid the social upheavals of the late sixties. Picking up where Fleming left off, Sebastian Faulks immerses Bond in the height of the Cold War, delivering a tale of relentless pace and tension. This narrative not only captures the essence of Fleming's original novels but also resonates with contemporary issues, showcasing Bond's resilience against modern dangers.

Život Pietra Russella je vyprávěn ve 26 kapitolách od A až do Z; každá se odehrává na jiném místě a odhaluje jeden střípek jeho příběhu. Ve snaze o vyřešení svých životních konfliktů putuje Pietro ve vzpomínkách napříč časem a postupně nám tak před očima vyvstává celý jeho životní příběh. Avšak i přes tento náznak literární komplikovanosti má čtenář uklidňující pocit, že autor přesně ví, co dělá. Tento inteligentní, filozofický román je zároveň překvapivě napínavý a čtivý. Faulks se jím nepochybně řadí mezi přední současné spisovatele: jeho dílo je svým způsobem stejně náročné jako tvorba velkých modernistů, ovšem s tou vzácnou výhodou, že je zároveň skvělým vypravěčem a dovede čtenáře vtáhnout do děje

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