Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Faulks was born and brought up in Newbury, Berkshire. He worked in journalism before starting to write books. He is best known for the French trilogy, The Girl At The Lion d'Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray (1989-1997) and is also the author of a triple biography, The Fatal Englishman (1996); a small book of literary parodies, Pistache (2006); and the novels Human Traces (2005) and Engleby (2007). He lives in London with his wife and their three children.
News and Blog
Award-winning and bestselling author, William Boyd is set to write the next James Bond novel. The book will be published in print and ebook editions in autumn 2013 by Jonathan Cape – Ian Fleming’s original publisher and an imprint of Vintage Publishing – and simultaneously by HarperCollins Publishers in USA & Canada. While the details and title of the next 007 adventure...
We are delighted to announce that Vintage Publishing, a division of Random House, has acquired through Jonny Geller at Curtis Brown the ten-year licence for Ian Fleming’s entire James Bond backlist in print and eBook format, along with Fleming’s two non-fiction titles. These will be available in Australia from Random House Australia winter 2012. Vintage Books is the sister imprint...
Books by Sebastian Faulks
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A Possible Life
by Sebastian FaulksPublished: 13/09/2012
An exhilarating, multi-layered narrative that explores love, loss and what makes us human, from the bestselling author of A Week in December and Birdsong
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Faulks on Fiction
by Sebastian FaulksPublished: 01/11/2011
A compelling and personal look at the British novel through its greatest characters - the heroes, lovers, snobs and villains - by bestselling novelist Sebastian Faulks
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A Week in December: Vintage 21
by Sebastian FaulksPublished: 03/10/2011
Powerful contemporary novel set in London from a master of literary fiction
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A Week in December
by Sebastian FaulksPublished: 01/09/2010
Powerful contemporary novel set in London from a master of literary fiction
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Pistache
by Sebastian FaulksPublished: 02/08/2010
A collection of fanciful, satirical and surprising parodies, squibs and pastiches inspired by The Write Stuff on Radio 4
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Engleby
by Sebastian FaulksPublished: 01/05/2008
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.
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On Green Dolphin Street
by Sebastian FaulksPublished: 03/05/2002
'Superbly done...Another winner' Sunday Telegraph
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Charlotte Gray
by Sebastian FaulksPublished: 02/07/1999
'A worthy successor to Birdsong' Alain de Botton
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The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives
by Sebastian FaulksPublished: 04/04/1997
'Wildly exciting..it's a classic' David Hare
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Girl At The Lion d'Or
by Sebastian FaulksPublished: 04/01/1991
A beautiful and moving novel about love and loss in France in the early twentieth century
