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A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War by Sebastian Faulks
55.00 AUD
Category: History
This is a profound, moving and important collection of letters, diaries and memories of the First World War, edited by Sebastian Faulks - author of Birdsong - and Dr Hope Wolf. A Broken World presents a cacophony of voices from and about the Great War in a way never before collected together, telling th ...Show more
A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of Birdsong and A Week in December comes a dazzling new Sunday Times bestseller. Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket ground in Hampshire. Across the courtyard in a Victorian workhouse, a father too ...Show more
A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks
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Category: Fiction
'Profound . . . Faulks evokes a deep compassion' OBSERVER'Does what a good novel should - it unsettles, it moves, and it forces us to question who we are' SUNDAY TIMES'A delight . . . moving and exciting' DAILY TELEGRAPHFive lives overlap across two centuries. School teacher Geoffrey's war takes him to ...Show more
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'A thoughtful page-turner' THE TIMES 'Vast, well-plotted and gripping throughout' SPECTATOR 'Richly entertaining and highly rewarding' EVENING STANDARDSeven Londoners' lives will change forever. In glamourous Notting Hill, a dinner party is being planned for some of the city's ...Show more
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Seven wintry days to track the lives of seven characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work and too much time ...Show more
A Week in December (Vintage Christmas) by Sebastian Faulks
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Category: Fiction
Powerful contemporary novel set in London from a master of literary fiction. THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Seven wintry days to track the lives of seven characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer re ...Show more
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
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Category: Fiction
In 1910 a young Englishman, Stephen Wraysford, goes to Picardy, France, to learn the textile business. While there he plunges into a love affair with the young wife of his host, a passion so imperative and consuming that it changes him forever. Several years later, with the outbreak of World War I, he f ...Show more
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage War
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, t ...Show more
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
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Category: Fiction
THE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLER'Magnificent - deeply moving' Sunday Times'Engrossing, moving, and unforgettable' The TimesIn the heat of the French summer, young Englishman Stephen Wraysford travels to France and falls in love with his host's wife, Isabelle Azaire. When the world stops, their affair fa ...Show more
Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War by Sebastian Faulks
35.00 AUD
Category: History
Edited by the bestselling author of Birdsong and Dr Hope Wolf, this is an original and illuminating non-fiction anthology of writing on the First World War. A lieutenant writes of digging through bodies that have the consistency of Camembert cheese; a mother sends flower seeds to her son at the Front, h ...Show more
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission - officially, to run an apparently simple errand for a British special operations group and unofficially, to search for her lover, an English airman who has gone missing in action. In the small town of Lavaurette, ...Show more
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
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Category: Fiction
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF BIRDSONG'Excruciatingly powerful' ANTONY BEEVOR 'A brilliant, harrowing, powerful novel' DAILY MAIL 'Faulks is a prodigiously talented writer' NEW YORK TIMESIn the black of night, a woman lands on the fields of Occupied France. Charlotte Grey is on a missio ...Show more