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Birdsong Birdsong Student Text Guide by Sebastian Faulks ( 1997)

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 Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient. Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come.
Charlotte Gray Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks ( 2000)

From the bestselling author of Birdsong 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 dangerous passion for a battle-weary RAF pilot, and when he fails to return from a daring flight into France she is determined to find him. In the service of the Resistance, she travels to the village of Lavaurette, dyeing her hair and changing her name to conceal her identity. Here she will come face-to-face with the harrowing truth of what took place during Europe's darkest years, and will confront a terrifying secret that threatens to cast its shadow over the remainder of her days. Vividly rendered, tremendously moving, and with a narrative sweep and power reminiscent of his novel Birdsong, Charlotte Gray confirms Sebastian Faulks as one of the finest novelists working today.
Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks ( 2008)

Debonair British agent James Bond returns in a new Cold War adventure that takes 007 to some of the world's most exotic and dangerous locales, in a novel by the author of Birdsong to mark the centennial of Ian Fleming's birth. Simultaneous.
Engleby Engleby by Sebastian Faulks ( 2008)

A lonely and mistreated working-class kid named Engleby suffers the indignities of the 1970s class-conscious English university system, turns to drink and drugs, and eventually extracts his revenge. Written in the form of Engleby's diaries, this dark and disturbing novel shows a new direction for Sebastian Faulks, best known for his historical fiction trilogy that culminated with CHARLOTTE GREY.
The Fatal Englishman The Fatal Englishman Three Short Lives by Sebastian Faulks ( 2002)

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.
A Fool's Alphabet by Sebastian Faulks ( 1993)

Pietro Russell's nomadic life unfolds alphabetically, not chronologically, with each segment from A to Z corresponding to the first letter of a place, such as L for Lyndonville, the town in which he fell in love. By the author of A Trick of the Light.
Forgotten Voices of the Secret War An Inside History of Special Operations During the Second World War by Roderick Bailey ( 2008)

The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a secret British organisation created early in the Second World War to encourage resistance and carry out sabotage behind enemy lines. This book presents its history, showing how in the face of danger and personal risk this select band of men and women helped tilt the conflict in the Allies' favour.
The Girl at the Lion D'or The Girl at the Lion D'or by Sebastian Faulks ( 1999)

The appearance of a pretty but troubled girl at a shabby hotel in 1930s France spells trouble for a married veteran of the Great War. Reprint. 60,000 first printing. NYT.
Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks ( )

Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when the story starts in 1876, come from different countries and contrasting families. They are united by an ambition to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human. 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. Their search is made urgent by the case of Jacques's brother Olivier, for whose severe illness no name has yet been found.

Thomas's sister Sonia becomes the pivotal figure in the volatile relationship between the two men, which threatens to explode with the arrival in their Austrian sanatorium of an enigmatic patient, Fraulein Katharina von A, whose illness epitomises all that divides them.

As the concerns of the old century fade and the first World War divides Europe, the novel rises to a climax in which the value of what it means to be alive seems to hang in the balance.

This is Sebastian Faulks's most ambitious novel yet, with scenes of emotional power recalling his most celebrated work, yet set here on an even larger scale. Moving and challenging in equal measure, Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are.

Human Traces Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks ( 2009)

When doctors Thomas Midwinter and Jacques Rebiere meet in 1880, they become united in their medical quest to understand the mysteries of the mind. Sebastian Faulk's dense novel works both as a compelling work of fiction, and a extensively researched exploration into the history and theories of psychiatry.
The Girl at the Lion d'Or by Sebastian Faulks ( )

A beautifully controlled and powerful 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.
On Green Dolphin Street On Green Dolphin Street A Novel by Sebastian Faulks ( 2003)

In 1960, Mary van der Linden, a loyal daughter, wife, and mother approaching forty, moves with her family from London to Washington, D.C., where she escapes her narrow world for the larger issues of politics and the Cold War with the help of Frank, a New York journalist, who introduces her to Miles Davis, Greenwich Village, and adultery.
The Vintage Book of War Stories The Vintage Book of War Stories by ( 2002)

In this powerful anthology, Sebastian Faulks, author of the international bestseller Birdsong, and Jörg 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 transcend the facts of death and metal, tanks and blood.

Many of the writers are concerned with battle, but others dwell on moments of calm, love, and friendship. From revolutionary Russia to Republican Spain; from the trenches of the Western Front to the skies over Korea and the jungles of Vietnam, this is a book filled with heroism and horror, savagery and compassion, and lightning-flashes of anarchic humor.
A Trick of the Light by Sebastian Faulks ( 1984)
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks ( 2010)

A novel set in 2007 London follows seven diverse characters, exploring the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life and culminating in a climax where each character is forced to confront the true nature of the world they inhabit. By the author of Devil May Care.

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