The Girl at the Lion d'Or

The Girl at the Lion D'or

Literature & Fiction

SEBASTIAN FAULKS

Contemporary

Hutchinson

pp. 309, b/w and colour photographs, SIGNED by the author on the title page

The Fatal Englishman

Biographies & Memoirs

A Week in December

Humor & Satire

Human Traces

What is it to be human? This question, as in Birdsong, is at the heart of Human Traces. The story begins in Brittany where a young, poor boy somehow passes his medical exams and goes to Paris, where he attends the lectures of Charcot, the Parisian neurologist who set the world on its head in the 1870s. With a friend, he sets up a clinic in the mysterious mountain district of Carinthia in south-east Austria. If The Girl at the Lion d’Or was a simple three-movement symphony, Birdsong an opera, Charlotte Gray a complex four-movement symphony and On Green Dolphin Street a concerto, then Human Traces is a Wagnerian grand opera.

In 1942, Charlotte Gray goes to Occupied France on a duel mission, to run a simple errand for a British special operations group and to find her lover, an English airman who has gone missing in action. It is in the town of Lavaurette that she finds friendship and experiences life under Nazi rule. From the author of BIRDSONG.

Charlotte Gray

Genre Fiction

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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 recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work and too much time to speculate; a student who has been led astray by Islamist theory; a hack book-reviewer; a schoolboy hooked on skunk and reality TV; and a Tube driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop. With daring skill, the novel pieces together the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life, and the group is forced, one by one, to confront the true nature of the world they inhabit. Sweeping, satirical, Dickensian in scope, A Week in December is a thrilling state of the nation novel from a master of literary fiction.

A Week in December, A

In Second World War Poland, a prisoner closes his eyes and pictures a sunlit cricket ground. Across the yard of a Victorian poorhouse, a man is too ashamed to acknowledge the son he gave away. In a 19th-century French village, an old servant understands the meaning of the Bible story her master is reading. In the Catskills, 1971, a girl steps out of a Chevy with a song that will send shivers through her listeners' skulls. A few years from now, in Italy, a scientist discovers links between time and the human brain, and her lover's novel and his life. Throughout five masterpieces of fiction, exquisitely drawn and unforgettable characters risk their bodies, hearts and minds in pursuit of the manna of human connection.

A Possible Life, A

Random House]

  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 is too ashamed to acknowledge his son.      A skinny girl steps out of a Chevy with a guitar and sings four songs that send shivers through the skull.     Through desperation and desire, soldiers and lovers, parents and children, scientists and musicians risk their bodies and hearts in search of connection--some key to understanding what makes us the people we become.      Provocative and profound, Sebastian Faulks's dazzling novel journeys across continents and time to explore the chaos created by love, separation and missed opportunities.

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Where My Heart Used to Beat

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The Girl at the Lion D'or

The Fatal Englishman

A Week in December

Human Traces

Charlotte Gray

Human Traces

A Week in December, A

A Possible Life, A

A Possible Life, A

Where My Heart Used to Beat