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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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 [...]

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[...]

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.[...]

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[...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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[...]