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Sebastian Faulks

    20 april 1953

    Deze auteur staat bekend om zijn meesterlijke vertelkunst, vaak gesitueerd tegen een brede historische achtergrond. Zijn werken dompelen lezers onder in het verleden en verkennen complexe menselijke relaties in turbulente tijden. Faulks blinkt uit in het tot leven brengen van geschiedenis door middel van boeiende personages en scherpe observaties over de menselijke natuur. Zijn proza is zowel lyrisch als precies, en laat een blijvende indruk achter.

    Sebastian Faulks
    Vintage War: Birdsong
    Jeeves and the Wedding Bells
    War stories
    Birdsong
    Het lied van de loopgraven
    James Bond: Devil May Care
    • James Bond: Devil May Care

      • 240bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen

      Bond returns with a vengeance in this electrifying new chapter celebrating Ian Fleming's legacy. An Algerian drug runner is brutally executed on the outskirts of Paris, prompting MI6 to recall Agent 007 from his sabbatical in Rome. The head of MI6, M, assigns Bond to shadow the enigmatic Dr. Julius Gorner, a power-hungry pharmaceutical magnate with a troubling interest in opiate derivatives, both legal and illegal. To navigate this dangerous mission, Bond teams up with the glamorous Parisian Scarlett Papava. Together, they confront a life-and-death struggle against a formidable adversary, as a series of events threaten global catastrophe. A British airliner disappears over Iraq, and the specter of war looms in the Middle East, while a flood of lethal narcotics threatens to engulf Britain amid the social upheavals of the late sixties. Picking up where Fleming left off, Sebastian Faulks immerses Bond in the height of the Cold War, delivering a tale of relentless pace and tension. This narrative not only captures the essence of Fleming's original novels but also resonates with contemporary issues, showcasing Bond's resilience against modern dangers.

      James Bond: Devil May Care
      3,9
    • Het lied van de loopgraven

      • 486bladzijden
      • 18 uur lezen

      Na een verboden liefdesverhouding blijft een jonge Brit in Frankrijk, waar hij tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog in de hel van de loopgraven terechtkomt.

      Het lied van de loopgraven
    • Birdsong

      • 528bladzijden
      • 19 uur lezen

      Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. Over the course of the novel he suffers a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experiences of the war itself.

      Birdsong
      4,1
    • Ranging from the First World War to the Gulf War, this collection of stories investigates the nature of military experience: from call-ups, the field of battle and comradeship, to leave, hospitalisation and trauma in later life. Truly international in scope, it includes stories by Erich Maria Remarque and Pat Barker, Isaac Babel and Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich Böll and Norman Mailer, JG Ballard and Tim O`Brian, Julian Barnes and Louis de Bernières. Together they form a uniquely powerful evocation of the horrors of war.

      War stories
      3,8
    • Jeeves and the Wedding Bells

      • 340bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen

      'Brings the peerless Jeeves and Wooster barrelling back to life' Daily Mail A gloriously witty novel from Sebastian Faulks using P.G. Wodehouseâe(tm)s much-loved characters, Jeeves and Wooster, fully authorised by the Wodehouse estate. Bertie Wooster is staying at the stately home of Sir Henry Hackwood in Dorset. He is more than familiar with the country-house set-up: he is a veteran of the cocktail hour and, thanks to Jeeves, his gentlemanâe(tm)s personal gentleman, is never less than immaculately dressed. On this occasion, however, it is Jeeves who is to be seen in the drawing room while Bertie finds himself below stairs âe" which he doesnâe(tm)t care for at all. His predicament is, of course, all in the name of love âe¦ âe~A masterpiece âe¦ a pitch-perfect undertakingâe(tm) Spectator âe~Entirely delightfulâe(tm) Financial Times âe~Delightfully witty, packed with punsâe(tm) Sunday Mirror âe~A polished sparkling genuine fakeâe(tm) Herald

      Jeeves and the Wedding Bells
      4,0
    • Vintage War: Birdsong

      • 512bladzijden
      • 18 uur lezen

      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 to stay with the Azaire family, and falls in love with unhappily married Isabelle. But, with the world on the brink of war, the relationship falters, and Stephen volunteers to fight on the Western Front. His love for Isabelle forever engraved on his heart, he experiences the unprecedented horrors of that conflict - from which neither he nor any reader of this book can emerge unchanged.

      Vintage War: Birdsong
      3,9
    • In this unique and compelling anthology, Sebastian Faulks and Jorg Hensgen have collected the best fiction about war in the twentieth century. Ranging from the First World War to the Gulf War, these stories depict a soldier's experience from call-up, battle and comradeship, to leave, hospital and trauma in later life.

      War Stories (Vintage War)
      3,5
    • Charlotte Gray

      • 393bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      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
      3,9
    • Vintage Book of War Stories

      • 416bladzijden
      • 15 uur lezen

      Included in this collection of war fiction, from the First World War to the Gulf War, are stories by Erich Maria Remarque, Pat Barker, Isaac Babel, Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich Böll, Norman Mailer, J.G. Ballard, Tim O’Brien, Julian Barnes and Louis de Bernières.

      Vintage Book of War Stories
      3,8
    • Pistache

      • 112bladzijden
      • 4 uur lezen

      pistache (pis-tash): a friendly spoof or parody of another's work. Possibly a cross between pastiche and pstake.] From Thomas Hardy's football report to Dan Brown's visit to the cash dispenser, the work of the great and the not-so- great is here sent up with little hope of coming down.

      Pistache
      3,7