Sebastian Faulks

Meet Mike Engleby, a second-year student at university. Despite the fact that Mike is obviously intelligent, and involved in many clubs, it is clear that something about Mike is not quite right. When he becomes fixated on a classmate named Jennifer Arkland, and she goes missing, we are left with the looming question: Is Mike Engleby involved?

Historian Hannah intends to immerse herself in World War II research in Paris, wary of paying much attention to the city where a youthful misadventure once left her dejected. But a chance encounter with Tariq -- a Moroccan teenager whose visions of the City of Lights as a world of opportunity and rebirth starkly contrast with her own -- disrupts her plan. Hannah agrees to take Tariq in as a lodger, forming an unexpected connection with the young man....

"Bertie Wooster (a young man about town) and his butler Jeeves (the very model of the modern manservant)--return in their first new novel in nearly forty years: Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks. P.G. Wodehouse documented the lives of the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster for nearly sixty years, from their first appearance in 1915 ("Extricating Young Gussie") to the his final completed novel (Aunts Aren't Gentlemen) in 1974. These two were...

America 1959. Mary van der Linden, wife of British diplomat, leads a carefree life among Washington's party-loving community. But the Eisenhower era is drawing to a close, and the battle for the White House between senators John Kennedy and Richard Nixon sets a new tone for the country. Against the backdrop, Mary's dramatic involvement with journalist Frank Renzo compels her to confront the cold war realities that lurk behind the blithe facade of...

Set in the Cold War, and follows the action of Bond across two contintents and exotic locations.