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 personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. His life goes through a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experience 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.

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.