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Sebastian Faulks


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in Donnington, Berkshire, England, The United Kingdom
April 20, 1953

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Sebastian Faulks is a British novelist, journalist, and broadcaster best known for his acclaimed historical novels set in France, including The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong, and Charlotte Gray. Alongside these, he has written contemporary fiction, a James Bond continuation novel (Devil May Care), and a Jeeves homage (Jeeves and the Wedding Bells). A former literary editor and journalist, Faulks gained widespread recognition with Birdsong, which solidified his literary reputation. He has also appeared regularly on British media, notably as a team captain on BBC Radio 4's The Write Stuff, and authored the TV tie-in Faulks on Fiction. Honored as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and appointed CBE for his services to literature, Fa Sebastian Faulks is a British novelist, journalist, and broadcaster best known for his acclaimed historical novels set in France, including The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong, and Charlotte Gray. Alongside these, he has written contemporary fiction, a James Bond continuation novel (Devil May Care), and a Jeeves homage (Jeeves and the Wedding Bells). A former literary editor and journalist, Faulks gained widespread recognition with Birdsong, which solidified his literary reputation. He has also appeared regularly on British media, notably as a team captain on BBC Radio 4's The Write Stuff, and authored the TV tie-in Faulks on Fiction. Honored as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and appointed CBE for his services to literature, Faulks continues to publish widely, with The Seventh Son released in 2023. ...more

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With over 20 books published over four decades, choosing where to begin reading Sebastian Faulks can be daunting. This guide offers suggested starting points based on different interests and reading preferences.

The book to read first

The Girl at the Lion d’Or (1989)
Set in a small French town during the 1930s, the novel tells the story of Anne, a young waitress haunted by family scandal, and Hartman

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Average rating: 3.84 · 187,607 ratings · 13,950 reviews · 66 distinct works • Similar authors
👁 Birdsong
4.11 avg rating — 84,541 ratings — published 1993
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👁 Charlotte Gray
3.83 avg rating — 13,028 ratings — published 1998 — 75 editions
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👁 Engleby
3.75 avg rating — 11,090 ratings — published 2007 — 44 editions
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👁 A Week in December
3.27 avg rating — 10,445 ratings — published 2009 — 27 editions
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👁 Where My Heart Used to Beat
3.67 avg rating — 8,331 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions
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👁 The Girl at the Lion d'Or
3.59 avg rating — 7,939 ratings — published 1989
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👁 Devil May Care
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3.46 avg rating — 7,688 ratings — published 2008 — 40 editions
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👁 The Seventh Son
3.47 avg rating — 6,762 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions
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👁 Paris Echo
3.49 avg rating — 6,598 ratings — published 2018 — 36 editions
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👁 Human Traces
3.69 avg rating — 5,939 ratings — published 2005 — 30 editions
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“I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong

“Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.”
― Sebastian Faulks

“The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong

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