In brief: A Person Is a Prayer; Warming Up; The Seventh Son – reviews
A moving family saga of migration and meaning; how sport is being changed by the climate crisis; and Sebastian Faulks’s imaginative genetics thriller
January 2024
Tom Parker Bowles picked for mini library project championed by his mum
Tom Parker Bowles among 21 writers providing snapshot of contemporary literature in initiative supported by the queen
September 2023
Book of the day
The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks review – what does it mean to be human?
This elegant near-future novel about a daring scientific experiment explores the evolution of consciousness
August 2023
Autumn arts preview 2023
Sebastian Faulks: ‘The last remaining human species needn’t have been so violent and clever as we are’
The author of Birdsong and Human Traces discusses his futuristic 16th novel, what it means to be human and what the future holds for our species
July 2023
Top 10s
Top 10: good sex in fiction
Never mind heaving bosoms and whimpering grunts, some writers – from Sally Rooney to DH Lawrence – depict genuine, sometimes graphic, intimacy in all its forms
August 2022
The books of my life
Sebastian Faulks: ‘George Orwell showed me that authorities are usually wrong’
The British novelist on the excitement of Alistair MacLean, the passion of DH Lawrence and the irreverence of Jane Austen
June 2022
This month's best paperbacks
This month’s best paperbacks: Sally Rooney, Stephen King and more
Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some wonderful new paperbacks, from new editions of classic Marvel comics to great novels for the summer
September 2021
Snow Country by Sebastian Faulks review – the collective trauma of a continent
Book of the day
Snow Country by Sebastian Faulks review – a follow-up to Human Traces
July 2020
Lockdown culture
Birdsong review – innovative lockdown staging of Faulks’s war saga
This socially distanced adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’s novel cleverly moves between times and places, with only an author narration striking a wayward note
October 2018
Brief letters
Meeting readers is a pleasure for writers
Mr Darcy’s reputation as romantic hero trashed at Cheltenham literature festival
Sebastian Faulks reveals he is working on 'Pinteresque' play
Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks review – in the shadow of history
September 2018
Books interview
Sebastian Faulks: ‘I always feel that the glorious thing is just beyond my reach’
The novelist talks about alter egos, his place in history, and the differences between French and English patriotism
December 2017
Unmissable culture of 2018
Julian Barnes, Sebastian Faulks, Leïla Slimani … the best fiction for 2018
Books by Rupert Thomson, Aminatta Forna and a clutch of brilliant debuts are among the novels to look out for this year
January 2017
'I fell out of bed laughing': writers on their favourite funny book
Nina Stibbe, David Nicholls, Bridget Christie and others reveal the books that made them laugh the most
December 2016
Culture webchats
‘As long as there are hairbrushes, people will sing’ – the best of 2016’s webchats
Jon Bon Jovi’s key change killer, Gemma Arterton’s weep-off with Glenn Close, the weirdest thing that ever happened to Harry Shearer … here are the highlights of 2016’s culture webchats
October 2016
Gillon Aitken obituary
Leading British literary agent whose clients included Germaine Greer, Helen Fielding, AN Wilson and Salman Rushdie
September 2016
Culture webchats
Sebastian Faulks webchat – your questions answered on Hemingway, warfare and political apathy
The journalist turned bestselling author weighed in on his lookalike, the emperor Hadrian, making a living as a writer and the unlearned lessons of 20th-century wars
