Sebastian Faulks - Bibliography

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Devil May Care

Sebastian Faulks

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. 250,000 first printing.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2009, Softcover - 2008, 2008

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Sebastian Faulks

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Human Traces

Sebastian Faulks

Chronicles the lives of Jacques Rebière and Thomas Midwinter, two men from different countries and backgrounds but united by a quest to understand the workings of the human mind and to investigate the treatment of insanity, from 1876 when they are both sixteen through turn-of-the-century Europe and America, in a novel that looks at the origins of early psychiatry. 40,000 first printing.

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On Green Dolphin Street

Sebastian Faulks

Focusing on a richly significant time in our recent past, Sebastian Faulks, the bestselling author of Birdsong and Charlotte Gray, has written his first novel set in America. The year is 1960—a fascinating moment of transition in our country, when the comfortable Eisenhower years were drawing to a close and the ruthlessly competitive Nixon/Kennedy presidential campaign signaled the beginning of a starkly different decade.

Mary van der Linden has recently moved from London to Washington, D.C., with her two children and her loving, admired husband, Charlie, who is posted to the British Embassy. Nearly forty, Mary has spent a lifetime as a loyal daughter, wife and mother. But in this year of so much change, she feels compelled to break away from her familiar world and is drawn to the freedom of New York City, which is effervescent with parties, jazz, three- martini lunches, girls in their summer dresses and men in their Sinatra hats and big ties. Greenwich Village is still charmingly bohemian, and Miles Davis’s hit tune “On Green Dolphin Street” is playing everywhere. Mary finds a hotel room in New York and then finds a lover, while back in Washington her husband drinks to forget the demands of his job, the absence of his wife and the Cold War paranoia that has overtaken the capital.

Faulks breaks new ground with this novel: It is a love story, not a war story, and it is set in America rather than France. Yet readers of his two previous bestselling novels will recognize the close focus of the historical setting, the unforgettable characters and the gathering emotional power of the narrative. On Green Dolphin Street is a dramatic, tremendously moving novel that is certain to extend the American audience for this prodigiously talented author’s work.

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Other editions: 2003, Softcover - 2003

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The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives

Sebastian Faulks

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Other editions: 1996

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Charlotte Gray

Sebastian Faulks

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.

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Other editions: 2001, 1999, Hardcover - 1999, Hardcover - 1999, 1999, 1998

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Birdsong

Sebastian Faulks

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.

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Other editions: 2000, Softcover - 1997, Hardcover - 1996, 1996

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The Girl at the Lion D'or

Sebastian Faulks

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Other editions: Softcover - 1999, Hardcover - 1991

A Fool's Alphabet

Sebastian Faulks

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A Trick of the Light

Sebastian Faulks

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