Meet Mike Engleby, a second-year student at university. Despite the fact that Mike is obviously intelligent, and involved in many clubs, it is clear that something about Mike is not quite right. When he becomes fixated on a classmate named Jennifer Arkland, and she goes missing, we are left with the[...]
"Beautifully written and--extraordinarily moving."--The Sunday Times (London)
From the author of the international bestseller Birdsong, comes a haunting historical novel of passion, loss, and courage set in France between the two world wars. This Vintage Original edition marks its first appea[...]
From the bestselling author of Birdsing 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 first work of non-fiction by the author of Charlotte Gray portrays three men whose potentials for greatness were cut short by early deaths, including painter Christopher Wood, WWII fighter pilot Richard Hillary, and gay spy Jeremy Wolfenden. Original.[...]
Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabe[...]
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 cricket ground.A[...]
Bertie Wooster (a young man about town) and his butler Jeeves (the very model of the modern manservant)--return in their first new novel in nearly forty years: "Jeeves and the Wedding Bells" by Sebastian Faulks.
P.G. Wodehouse documented the lives of the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster for nearly [...]
One B. Wooster, recently returned from a very pleasurable sojourn in Cannes, finds himself at the stately home of Sir Henry Hackwood in Dorset. Bertie is more than familiar with the country house set-up: he is a veteran of the cocktail hour and, thanks to Jeeves, his gentleman's personal gentleman, [...]
In this powerful anthology, Sebastian Faulks, author of the international bestseller "Birdsong, " and Jorg Hensgen have put together some of the finest fictional writing about war in the 20th century. Whether reporting with sober clarity or raw despair, the assembled novelists each found a way to tr[...]
In Second World War Poland, a prisoner closes his eyes and pictures a sunlit cricket ground. Across the yard of a Victorian poorhouse, a man is too ashamed to acknowledge the son he gave away. In a 19th-century French village, an old servant understands the meaning of the Bible story her master is r[...]
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.[...]
A story of love and conscience, will and desire, which begins when 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-1930s. By the author of "Birdsong", "Charlotte Gray" and "On Green Dolphin Street".[...]
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 af[...]
En ung engelskmann, nedbrutt etter en ulykkelig kjærlighetshistorie med en gift fransk kvinne, verver seg til krigstjeneste. Første verdenskrig raser, og snart befinner han seg bak de tyske linjer, der døden og dramatikken herjer.[...]
London er mørklagt, andre verdenskrig raser og den unge skotske kvinnen Charlotte Gray forelsker seg i en britisk RAF-pilot. Da han ikke kommer tilbake fra et farlig oppdrag i Frankrike, bestemmer hun seg for å finne ham. På oppdrag fra den britiske motstandsbevegelsen reiser hun til den franske [...]
En gripende roman om helvetet i skyttergravene under 1. verdenskrig. En varm og overraskende kjærlighetshistorie og slektskrønike. Sebastian Faulks er en svært etablert forfatter i Storbritannia. Bøkene hans er oversatt til mange språk, men dette er hans første bok som er oversatt på norsk. D[...]
Krigets enfald och gränslös kärlek
År 1910 möter engelsmannen Stephen Wraysford sitt livs stora kärlek i den nordfranska staden Amiens. Stephen har kommit till Frankrike för att lära sig mer om textilbranschen, men hans vistelse i landet utvecklar sig till något helt annat och han [...]
Nimi oli Bond. James Bond. Ja nyt, yli 40 vuotta Ian Flemingin viimeisen Bond-tarinan jälkeen, 007 on palannut pelastamaan maailman. Piru perii omansa on klassinen Bond-seikkailu. Se sijoittuu kylmän sodan ja Beatles-hysterian kuumimpiin vuosiin ja eksoottisiin maailmankolkkiin. Kirjan tapahtumat [...]
Joulukuu 2007, Lontoo. Investointipankkiiri John Veals on parin puhelinsoiton päässä kieron elämänsä nerokkaimmasta liiketoimesta, joka on tekevä hänestä satumaisen rikkaan ja tuhoava miljoonien brittien eläkesäästöt.Samaan aikaan toisaalla: Vealsin 16-vuotias tuhlaajapoika Finbar kiiku[...]