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You can now listen to Sebastian’s specially curated Spotify playlist for Fires Which Burned Brightly.

From Perry Como to Joni Mitchell to The Beach Boys, discover the soundtrack to the snapshots of life in Fires Which Burned Brightly: daring escapes from boarding school; the delirium of a jetlagged American book tour; the writing of Birdsong in 1992; and memorable trips across the channel to France.

Follow the instructions in the image below, or click on this link to listen.

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The Big Weekend of Books with Kate Evans on ABC Radio National on Sunday 29th August 2021 – listen in full here.

The Today Show with Sarah Smith on Radio 4 on Tuesday 31st August 2021 – listen in full here. (Fast forward to 2:24)

Get the Headliners podcast with Nihal Arthanayake on Radio 5 Live on Monday 13th September 2021 – listen in full here.

Meet the Writers with Georgina Godwin on Monocle on Sunday 19th September 2021 – listen in full here.

‘I used to be quite fetishistic’: Se...

The Big Weekend of Books with Kate Evans on ABC Radio National on Sunday 29th August 2021 – listen in full here.

The Today Show with Sarah Smith – Radio 4’s most popular programme – on Tuesday 31st August 2021 – listen in full here. (Fast forward to 2:24)

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The novel, Snow Country, tells the story of Lena, a girl born with nothing but her own strength of character to an alcoholic mother in a small town in southern Austria in 1906 and Anton, the restless son of a bourgeois family who sets out to make his fortune in pre-First World War Vienna.

Their lives become fatally entwined at the Schloss Seeblick, the setting of one of Faulks’s most loved and admired nove...

The forthcoming novel, Snow Country, tells the story of Lena, a girl born with nothing but her own strength of character to an alcoholic mother in a small town in southern Austria in 1906 and Anton, the restless son of a bourgeois family who sets out to make his fortune in pre-First World War Vienna.

Their lives become fatally entwined at the Schloss Seeblick, setting of one of Faulks’s most loved and admired novel, Human Traces (2005). Although we glimpse one or two characters from the past, th...

Adapted from Faulks’s novel by Rachel Wagstaff, the production will be staged in full costume with digital scenic design.

It will be streamed online at 7pm on July 1, to mark the 104th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. The show will then be available online for a further 72 hours. The performance will be introduced and narrated by Faulks, with a special reading from his novel during the interval.

It has been created by the Original Theatre Company, based on the company’s co-production of t...

Adapted from Faulks’ novel by Rachel Wagstaff, the production will be staged in full costume with digital scenic design.

It will be streamed online at 7pm on July 1, to mark the 104th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme.

The show will then be available online for a further 72 hours.

The performance will be introduced and narrated by Faulks, with a special reading from his novel during the interval.

It has been created by the Original Theatre Company, based on the company’s co-production of th...

Coronet Books, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, has commissioned a collection of love letters to Europe from contributors including JK Rowling, Melvyn Bragg, Neil Gaiman, and Sebastian Faulks, to be published on Brexit deadline day.

These household names are amongst contributors who have come together to give a voice to their thoughts, hopes and feelings towards Europe. Publisher, Mark Booth, said some of the contributions were...

The Cheltenham Literature Festival is the UK’s oldest literary festival.

At this years festival, which took place in October 2019, Sebastian Faulks shared his views with the audience on happiness, and his goal to write a little ‘lighter’ for the soul.

Read more at The Times view on gloomy books: Happiness Writes White and Time to look on bright side, says Sebastian Faulks (Note: Requires a subscription).

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The Cheltenham Literature Festival is the UK’s oldest literary festival.

At this years festival, which took place in October 2019, Sebastian Faulks shared his views with the audience on happiness, and his goal to write a little ‘lighter’ for the soul.

Read more at The Times view on gloomy books: Happiness Writes White and Time to look on bright side, says Sebastian Faulks (Note: Requires a subscription).

The post Musings from Cheltenham Literary Festival appeared...