Sebastian Faulks is a best-selling British journalist and novelist, best known for his French trilogy including The Girl at the Lion d’Or (1989), Birdsong (1993), and Charlotte Gray (1998), which was adapted into a film starring Cate Blanchett. His latest novel, Snow Country, was published in 2021.
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Charlotte Gray
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Charlotte Gray
It’s 1942 and Charlotte Gray, a young Scottish woman, is embarking on a dangerous journey to Occupied France, officially to run an errand for British special operations, but unofficially to look for her missing lover, an English airman. When she arrives to the village of Lavaurette, she finds herself forced to confront the terrible truth of what had been happening in Europe as well as a terrible secret threatening her future.
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David Copperfield
By Charles Dickens
Recommended by: Elizabeth Gilbert & Sebastian Faulks
Publish Date: 1850
Deemed by Dickens as his ‘favourite child’, David Copperfield is the most autobiographical of Dickens’ novels. In it, the protagonist recounts his life from his childhood to the discovery of his writing talent and eventual success as a novelist. Populated…
Sons and Lovers
By D. H. Lawrence
Recommended by: Sebastian Faulks
Publish Date: 1913
The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul – determined they will not follow…
1984
By George Orwell
Recommended by: Sebastian Faulks
Publish Date: 1949
Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life…
Naples ’44
By Norman Lewis
Recommended by: Sebastian Faulks
Publish Date: 1978
As a young intelligence officer stationed in Naples following its liberation from Nazi forces, Norman Lewis recorded the lives of a proud and vibrant people forced to survive on prostitution, thievery, and a desperate belief in miracles and cures. The…
