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In this unique and compelling anthology, Sebastian Faulks has 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. Truly international in scope, this anthology includes stories by Erich Maria Remarque and Pat Barker, Isaac Babel and Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich Boll and Norman Mailer, JG Ballard and Tim O'Brien, Julian Barnes and Louis de Bernieres. Together they form a powerful and moving evocation of the horrors of war.

On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life. His host, and antagonist, is Alexander Pereira, a man whose time is running out, but who seems to know more about his guest than Hendricks himself does. The search for sanity takes us through the war in Italy in 1944, a passionate love that seems to hold out hope, the great days of idealistic work in the 1960s and finally - unforgettably - back into the trenches of the Western Front. The recurring themes of Sebastian Faulks' fiction are here brought together with a new stylistic brilliance as the novel casts a long, baleful light over the century we have left behind but may never fully understand. Daring, ambitious and in the end profoundly moving, this is Faulks' most remarkable book yet.

Pistache (pis-tash): a friendly spoof or parody of another's work. [Deriv uncertain. Possibly a cross between pastiche and p**stake.] From the writer of such brilliant parodies as `Thomas Hardy's football report and Dan Brown's visit to the cash dispenser comes another collection of witty pastiches.

A soldier falls asleep on duty and is threatened with being court-martialled. An officer lies in mud, fighting for his life and the life of his men. A young man walks across Waterloo Bridge, explosives in his rucksack, heart pounding. In this powerfully moving book, Faulks shows us the true face of war. These are stories of death and survival, of hope and despair, and of ordinary people whose lives will never be the same again. Selected from the books Birdsong, A Possible Life and A Week in December by Sebastian FaulksVINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis series:Home by Salman RushdieFatherhood by Karl Ove KnausgaardWork by Joseph HellerDreams by Sigmund Freud

Powerful contemporary novel set in London from a master of literary fiction

"Brings the peerless Jeeves and Wooster barrelling back to life". (Daily Mail). A gloriously witty novel from Sebastian Faulks using P.G. Wodehouse'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 gentleman'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 - which he doesn't care for at all. His predicament is, of course, all in the name of love..."A masterpiece ...a pitch-perfect undertaking". (Spectator). "Entirely delightful". (Financial Times). "Delightfully witty, packed with puns". (Sunday Mirror). "A polished sparkling genuine fake". (Herald).

Egy nagy háború... és egy nagy szerelem története. Seabastian Faulks 1993-as regénye a legnagyobb első világháborús könyvsiker a Nyugaton a helyzet változatlan óta: a BBC közel egymillió szavazós Nagy Könyv versenyén a tizenharmadik helyen végzett, közvetlenül az Üvöltő szelek mögött, megelőzve a Zabhegyező-t és A hobbit-ot. 2012-ben nagy sikerű BBC-film is készült belőle, és - ha a kényes ízlésű Faulks zöld utat ad a projektnek, ami egyelőre még nem biztos - jön majd a hollywoody film is az új Majmok bolygójá-t jegyző Rupert Wyatt rendezésében. A Madárdal főhőse Stephen Wraysford, az ő életének legfontosabb állomásait követi nyomon a három idősíkon futó regény. Először Pikárdiában találkozunk vele, 1910-ben - épp egy helybéli gyárosnál vendégeskedik, hogy kitanulja a textilkereskedelem mesterségét. Itt beleszeret szállásadójának feleségébe, és ez a szerelem visszavonhatatlanul megváltoztatja az életét. Az első világháború idején Stephent ismét Pikárdiába veti a sors, ezúttal a nyugati fronton harcoló katonaként. Később, a hetvenes évek végén unokája, Elizabeth rábukkan a fronton titkosírással írt naplóira, és a fejébe veszi, hogy utánajár a nagyapa rejtélyes múltjának... A Madárdal egyedülállóan mai mű az első világháború tekintélyes méretű irodalmában. Igazi háborús nagyregény, amely azonban szakít az elődök által követett hősies-szentimentális hagyománnyal, és a második világháború után felnőtt írógeneráció tudásával olyan határtapasztalatként láttatja a háborút, amely jóvátehetetlenül szétroncsolja a normalitásba vetett hitünk alapjait.

ve stylu Iana Fleminga napsal Sebastian Faulks. Sebastian Faulks, jeden z nejuznávanějších britských spisovatelů, přichází s novým příběhem neohroženého Jamese Bve stylu Iana Fleminga napsal Sebastian Faulks. Sebastian Faulks, jeden z nejuznávanějších britských spisovatelů, přichází s novým příběhem neohroženého Jamese Bonda u příležitosti stého výročí narození Iana Fleminga, autora všech předešlých bondovek. Dlouho očekávaný roman, napsaný zcela ve Flemingově stylu, zastihuje agenta 007 v období studené války a tradičně nabízí specifický humor, dramatickou zápletku i dobrodružné scény odehrávající se na dvou kontinentech. onda u příležitosti stého výročí narození Iana Fleminga, autora všech předešlých bondovek. Dlouho očekávaný roman, napsaný zcela ve Flemingově stylu, zastihuje agenta 007 v období studené války a tradičně nabízí specifický humor, dramatickou zápletku i dobrodružné scény odehrávající se na dvou kontinentech.

In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission: to run an apparently simple errand for a British special operations group and to search for her lover, an English airman who has gone missing in action. In the small town of Lavaurette, Sebastian Faulks presents a microcosm of France and its agony in 'the black years'. Here is the full range of collaboration, from the tacit to the enthusiastic, as well as examples of extraordinary courage and altruism. Through the local resistance chief Julien, Charlotte meets his father, a Jewish painter whose inspiration has failed him. In a series of shocking narrative climaxes in which the full extent of French collusion in the Nazi holocaust is delineated, Faulks brings the story to a resolution of redemptive love. In the delicacy of its writing, the intimacy of its characterisation and its powerful narrative scenes of harrowing public events, Charlotte Gray" is a worthy successor to "Birdsong"."

1914: Young Anton Heideck has arrived in Vienna, eager to make his name as a journalist. While working part-time as a private tutor, he encounters Delphine, a woman who mixes startling candour with deep reserve. Entranced by the light of first love, Anton feels himself blessed. Until his country declares war on hers. 1927: For Lena, life with a drunken mother in a small town has been impoverished and cold. She is convinced she can amount to nothing until a young lawyer, Rudolf Plischke, spirits her away to Vienna. But the capital proves unforgiving. Lena leaves her metropolitan dream behind to take a menial job at the snow-bound sanatorium, the Schloss Seeblick. 1933: Still struggling to come terms with the loss of so many friends on the Eastern Front, Anton, now an established writer, is commissioned by a magazine to visit the mysterious Schloss Seeblick. In this place of healing, on the banks of a silvery lake, where the depths of human suffering and the chances of redemption are explored, two people will see each other as if for the first time.