Fires which burned brightly : a life in progress
Faulks, Sebastian2026
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In 'Fires Which Burned Brightly', Faulks, a reluctant memoirist, offers readers a series of detailed snapshots from a life in progress. They include a post-war rural childhood - 'cold mutton and wet washing on a rack over the range' - the booze-sodden heyday of Fleet Street and a career as one of the country's most acclaimed novelists. There are not one, but two daring escapes from boarding school; the delirium of a jetlagged American book tour; the writing of 'Birdsong' in his brother's house in 1992; and memorable trips across the channel to France. Politics, psychiatry and frustrated ventures into the world of entertainment are analysed with patience and rueful humour.
Main title:
Fires which burned brightly : a life in progress / Sebastian Faulks.
Author:
Faulks, Sebastian, author
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2026.
Collation:
400 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Hutchinson Heinemann, 2025.
ISBN:
9781804952825 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
828.9209920 FAUL828.9209 FAUFAU828.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
9111528