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A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War by Sebastian Faulks
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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 Fool's Alphabet by Sebastian Faulks
$25.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The events of Pietro Russell's life are told in 26 chapters. From A-Z each chapter is set in a different place and reveals a fragment of his story. As his memories flicker back and forth through time in his search for a resolution to the conflicts of his life, his story gradually unfolds. . . (Pre ...Show more
A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Birdsong, new fiction about love and war - five transporting stories and five unforgettable lives, linked across centuries. In Second World War Poland, a young prisoner closes his eyes and pictures going to bat on a sunlit English cricket ground. Acro ...Show more
A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ashamed to acknowledge his son. A skinny girl steps out of a Chevy with a guitar; her voice sends ...Show more
A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks
$22.99 AUD
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
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days, we follow the lives of seven major 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 stu ...Show more
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
$19.99 AUD
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
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
WWI Centenary EditionWith a new introduction from the authorA 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 ...Show more
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
A special anniversary edition of the bestselling and much-loved classic published for the centenary of the First World 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 t ...Show more
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage War | Reading Level: very good
WWI Centenary EditionWith a new introduction from the authorA 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 ...Show more
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
$14.99 AUD
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
Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War by Sebastian Faulks
$35.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
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