Reviewed by Peter Cannon. In an author’s note included with the galley of this homage to P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), Sebastian Faulks asserts that he’s “no expert,” that he’s “just a fan,” with a ...

Mike Engleby, the witty and disturbing narrator of Sebastian Faulks' new novel, feels strongly about popular music: "I had a bath and put Steely Dan on the record player. I ought to explain that I don ...

Bertie Wooster, after a 6am alarm that “sounded like a dozen iron dustbins being chucked down a flight of stone steps”, brings a cup of tea to Jeeves, sitting in bed wearing a burgundy dressing gown ...

Faulks (A Week in December) immerses readers into a haunted Paris through the exhilarating stories of a teenage Moroccan immigrant and an American historian researching the experiences of women during ...

A young intelligence officer during the Second World War survives life in a Nazi concentration camp. A music producer in the 1970s falls in love with a young bohemian singer who breaks his heart. A ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In his latest novel, Paris Echo, the ever-unpredictable Sebastian Faulks has produced a complex narrative told in two alternating voices ...

Acclaimed British novelist Sebastian Faulks has been selected by Ian Fleming’s estate to write the next James Bond novel. Acclaimed British novelist Sebastian Faulks has emerged as the author whom Ian ...

In form and scope, Sebastian Faulks’s new novel is an unexpected delight. I say novel – as do the publishers – but really it’s a quintet of stories that, without any foreshadowing, zigzags in place ...

But some news has arrived of another potential project, and it’s actually one that Wyatt has been involved with for quite a while. Screen Daily reports that Embankment Films are backing “Birdsong,” an ...

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I'VE never previously read anything by Sebastian Faulks. In fact when his best-seller Birdsong first came out the very fact that someone seemed to possess a copy wherever I looked provoked an ...