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Musings from Cheltenham Literary Festival

Sebastian Faulks shares his thoughts and opinions on happiness, and the art thereof

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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Essential Classics with BBC Radio 3

Novelist, journalist and broadcaster Sebastian Faulks joins Suzi Klein on BBC Radio 3 to talk about the people, places and ideas that mean the most to him.

Listen to the programme here.

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Sebastian Faulks shortlisted for Specsavers National Book Awards UK Author of the Year 2018

Sebastian Faulks has been shortlisted for Specsavers National Book Awards UK Author of the Year for his novel, Paris Echo.

The Specsavers National Book Awards are designed to celebrate the best and most popular books of the year.

The awards are judged by The Academy, a handpicked group of the most senior and influential people in the book trade including publishers, agents, booksellers, journalists and influencers.

Find out more here.

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Sebastian Faulks shortlisted for Specsavers National Book Awards UK Author of the Year

The Specsavers National Book Awards are designed to celebrate the best and most popular books of the year. The awards are judged by The Academy, a handpicked group of the most senior and influential people in the book trade including publishers, agents, booksellers, journalists and influencers.

Find out more here.

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The Lovereading podcast: Echoes featuring Sebastian Faulks and Claire Fuller

In this episode of the Lovereading podcast they find echoes from the past catching up with the present in an in-depth interview with Sebastian Faulks. In his new novel Paris Echo, bestselling novelist Sebastian Faulks creates a surprising connection between two strangers in Paris.

Lovereading’s review of Paris Echo:

Classic stuff with Paris very much at its centre.  Although set in the present, the past echoes through it as various people brush up against history, politics and atrocities. 

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Open Book 20th Anniversary Edition

To celebrate Open Book’s 20th anniversary, Mariella Frostrup is joined by guests Sebastian Faulks, Lisa McInerney, Chibundu Onuzo and Kamila Shamsie to explore the huge changes in books and publishing over the past 20 years. They discuss some of the industry’s hot topics including pay, diversity and representation, and look ahead to what we’ll be reading in the next two decades.

Listen to the podcast here.

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Sebastian Faulks finds echoes of the past in present-day Paris with France 24

He loves the metro system but croissants leave him cold: Sebastian Faulks joins France 24 to talk about his complex relationship with the city which inspired his latest novel, Paris Echo.

The best-selling British author of Birdsong and Charlotte Grey discusses the 20th-century conflicts which have shaped attitudes towards patriotism and remembrance on both sides of the English Channel, and how France’s history echoes through the streets of its capital.

Watch the video here.

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Sebastian Faulks appears on Iain Dale’s Book Club by LBC

Iain Dale talks to bestselling novelist Sebastian Faulks about his new book ‘Paris Echo’, and also former Labour Home Secretary Alan Johnson about his unique military memoir ‘In my Life’. Googlebox star June Bernicoff joins them to talk about her memoir ‘Leon and June’ and what it’s like to be on one of the nation’s favourite programmes.

Listen to the podcast here.

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BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking at the BBC Proms

The author of Birdsong talks to Anne McElvoy in one of the first conservations about his new novel. Sebastian Faulks discusses depicting France past and present from World War I to Algeria and immigration now as he publishes his latest novel, Paris Echo. Recorded with an audience at the BBC Proms.

Listen to the podcast here.

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Sebastian Faulks with Nihal Arthanayake for The Penguin Podcast

Bestselling author Sebastian Faulks tells Nihal Arthanayake how he creates characters, harnesses history to build stories and how he came up with ideas for his new novel, Paris Echo.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Sebastian’s novel Birdsong which has sold millions of copies and is taught as part of the National Curriculum.

Sebastian also shares some objects that have inspired his writing including an original letter penned by Wordsworth.

Listen to the podcast here.

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