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- A week in December [sound recording (CD)] / by Faulks, Sebastian.; Stevens, Dan.;
Read by Dan Stevens.Faulks' new novel follows the lives of four characters in London, including a city banker, a driver on the Circle Line of the London underground and a pickle maker.- Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Audiobooks.; Christmas stories.;
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- The seventh son / by Faulks, Sebastian,author.;
When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman's child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn Institute, a billionaire entrepreneur plans to stretch the boundaries of ethics as never before. Through a series of IVF treatments, which they hope to keep secret, they propose an experiment that will upend the human race as we know it. Seth, the baby, is delivered to hopeful parents Mary and Alaric, but when his differences start to mark him out from his peers, he begins to attract unwanted attention.- Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Billionaires; Children of surrogate mothers; Fertilization in vitro, Human; Genetic engineering; Human experimentation in medicine; Human experimentation in medicine; Power (Social sciences);
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- Paris echo / by Faulks, Sebastian,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."An urgent and enthralling new novel about injustice and betrayal from the author of Birdsong and A Week in December. Set in 2006, Paris Echo follows Hannah, a thirty-one-year-old American post-doctoral researcher looking into the lives of women during the German Occupation of Paris in 1940-44, and Tariq, a nineteen-year-old boy who has run away from his home in Morocco, searching for sex and adventure. Through their culture clash we are taken back into the hidden Paris of the Dark Years, the Algerian War and the simmering discontents of the banlieue. As both main characters fight to preserve their integrity and their sanity, they find their future shaped by the lives of the dead, by the ghosts of the Paris Metro."--- Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Americans; Moroccans; Women historians; Immigrants;
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- Snow country / by Faulks, Sebastian,author.;
Looking back to the Vienna of Klimt and Freud and forward to the shadow that is starting to fall over Europe, Sebastian Faulks's new novel is an intensely personal story that focuses on Lena, a spirited girl born with nothing, and Anton, a man of passion and self-doubt and how their lives become fatally entwined at the Schloss Seeblick in 1933, with Europe precariously placed between two wars.- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Journalists; Man-woman relationships; World War, 1914-1918;
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- A broken world : letters, diaries and memories of the Great War / by Faulks, Sebastian,editor.; Wolf, Hope,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-295) and index.An illuminating non-fiction anthology of writing on the First World War, in which a lieutenant writes of digging through bodies that have the consistency of Camembert cheese; and a nurse tends a man back to health knowing he will be court-martialled and shot as soon as he is fit.- Subjects: World War, 1914-1918;
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