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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Seven days, seven main characters, seven chapters. That’s the setup for British author Sebastian Faulks’ “A Week in December,” an admirably ambitious attempt at the ultimate urban novel. The opening ...
The Glasgow-based indie Freedom Scripted is set to adapt Engleby, the 2007 cult novel penned by Sebastian Faulks. Keillor said, “It’s an honor to bring the fascinating and mercurial character of ...
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If we’re lucky, our memories are mostly of happy times and not too many regrets, but that’s definitely not the case for the protagonist in Sebastian Faulks’ new novel. Scott Southard reviews "Where My ...
It's not just any old December that provides Sebastian Faulks' eponymous week: it's a very particular one, carefully chosen, only two years back from us now: 2007. The recent past under normal ...
One of the most astonishing miracles of modern literature is that the novels and stories of P.G. Wodehouse are still, 111 years after the publication of his first book, so incredibly funny. Not in a ...